源码类注释

/**
 * This class provides thread-local variables.  These variables differ from
 * their normal counterparts in that each thread that accesses one (via its
 * {@code get} or {@code set} method) has its own, independently initialized
 * copy of the variable.  {@code ThreadLocal} instances are typically private
 * static fields in classes that wish to associate state with a thread (e.g.,
 * a user ID or Transaction ID).
 *
 * <p>For example, the class below generates unique identifiers local to each
 * thread.
 * A thread's id is assigned the first time it invokes {@code ThreadId.get()}
 * and remains unchanged on subsequent calls.
 * <pre>
 * import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 *
 * public class ThreadId {
 *     // Atomic integer containing the next thread ID to be assigned
 *     private static final AtomicInteger nextId = new AtomicInteger(0);
 *
 *     // Thread local variable containing each thread's ID
 *     private static final ThreadLocal<Integer> threadId =
 *         new ThreadLocal<Integer>() {
 *             @Override protected Integer initialValue() {
 *                 return nextId.getAndIncrement();
 *         }
 *     };
 *
 *     // Returns the current thread's unique ID, assigning it if necessary
 *     public static int get() {
 *         return threadId.get();
 *     }
 * }
 * </pre>
 * <p>Each thread holds an implicit reference to its copy of a thread-local
 * variable as long as the thread is alive and the {@code ThreadLocal}
 * instance is accessible; after a thread goes away, all of its copies of
 * thread-local instances are subject to garbage collection (unless other
 * references to these copies exist).
 *
 * @author  Josh Bloch and Doug Lea
 * @since   1.2
 */

核心变量：threadLocalHashCode

private final int threadLocalHashCode = nextHashCode();

/**
 * The next hash code to be given out. Updated atomically. Starts at
 * zero.
 */
private static AtomicInteger nextHashCode =
    new AtomicInteger();

/**
 * The difference between successively generated hash codes - turns
 * implicit sequential thread-local IDs into near-optimally spread
 * multiplicative hash values for power-of-two-sized tables.
 */
private static final int HASH_INCREMENT = 0x61c88647;

/**
 * Returns the next hash code.
 */
private static int nextHashCode() {
    return nextHashCode.getAndAdd(HASH_INCREMENT);
}

每个ThreadLocal对象都会维护一个threadLocalHashCode变量，这个先 pass，看完一圈再研究作用；

构造方法

public ThreadLocal() {
}

静态方法

public static <S> ThreadLocal<S> withInitial(Supplier<? extends S> supplier) {
    return new SuppliedThreadLocal<>(supplier);
}

这里提供一个延迟计算、动态创建对象的函数式接口；

核心方法：set

public void set(T value) {
    Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
    ThreadLocalMap map = getMap(t);
    if (map != null) {
        map.set(this, value);
    } else {
        createMap(t, value);
    }
}

• 拿到当前线程
• 拿到线程持有的ThreadLocalMap
• set 值（key：当前 ThreadLocal 对象，value：当前线程在当前 ThreadLocal 对象下的独有值）

核心方法：get

/**
 * Returns the value in the current thread's copy of this
 * thread-local variable.  If the variable has no value for the
 * current thread, it is first initialized to the value returned
 * by an invocation of the {@link #initialValue} method.
 *
 * @return the current thread's value of this thread-local
 */
public T get() {
    Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
    ThreadLocalMap map = getMap(t);
    if (map != null) {
        ThreadLocalMap.Entry e = map.getEntry(this);
        if (e != null) {
            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            T result = (T)e.value;
            return result;
        }
    }
    return setInitialValue();
}

• 拿到当前线程、继续拿线程持有的 ThreadLocalMap：

public class Thread implements Runnable {
    /* ThreadLocal values pertaining to this thread. This map is maintained
     * by the ThreadLocal class. */
    ThreadLocal.ThreadLocalMap threadLocals = null;
    
    ThreadLocalMap getMap(Thread t) {
        return t.threadLocals;
    }
}

• 如果 map 为空，则初始化线程的 map：setInitialValue();

private T setInitialValue() {
    T value = initialValue();
    Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
    ThreadLocalMap map = getMap(t);
    if (map != null) {
        map.set(this, value);
    } else {
        createMap(t, value);
    }
    if (this instanceof TerminatingThreadLocal) {
        TerminatingThreadLocal.register((TerminatingThreadLocal<?>) this);
    }
    return value;
}

拓展探索：ThreadLocalMap

/**
 * ThreadLocalMap is a customized hash map suitable only for
 * maintaining thread local values. No operations are exported
 * outside of the ThreadLocal class. The class is package private to
 * allow declaration of fields in class Thread.  To help deal with
 * very large and long-lived usages, the hash table entries use
 * WeakReferences for keys. However, since reference queues are not
 * used, stale entries are guaranteed to be removed only when
 * the table starts running out of space.
 */
static class ThreadLocalMap {
}

• 核心八股：map 弱引用

static class ThreadLocalMap {

    /**
     * The entries in this hash map extend WeakReference, using
     * its main ref field as the key (which is always a
     * ThreadLocal object).  Note that null keys (i.e. entry.get()
     * == null) mean that the key is no longer referenced, so the
     * entry can be expunged from table.  Such entries are referred to
     * as "stale entries" in the code that follows.
     */
    static class Entry extends WeakReference<ThreadLocal<?>> {
        /** The value associated with this ThreadLocal. */
        Object value;

        Entry(ThreadLocal<?> k, Object v) {
            super(k);
            value = v;
        }
    }
}

这里的弱引用的意思是：
Entry 对所持有的对象（ThreadLocal 对象）的引用方式是弱引用，jvm 进行 GC 的时候不会考虑弱引用的引用；
这么设计的原因是：
当某个 ThreadLocal 已经失效，按照常理应该被回收的时候（这个时候，可能有多个线程持有ThreadLocalMap，并在内部的 Entry 中持有 ThreadLocal 对象，而这个对象对于线程而言已经是没用的了）；此时如果这里对 ThreadLocal 的引用是强引用，那么 JVM 判断不应该回收，造成内存泄露；
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