Thread: CountDownLatch, Semaphores and Reentrant Locks

http://mattgemmell.com/2008/12/08/what-have-you-tried/


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Can you post the code that shows the problem and ask some questions about the problems you are having?

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Please post the code that shows the problems you are having.

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Where is your code for where there are TODO comments?

unsure if the codes are correct. For (1)

The first test is: does the code compile?
The next is: does the code do what you want?

What are the answers to those questions?

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Do you have any questions about or problems with the code in post#11?

You missed this part of my post:

Do you have any questions about or problems with the code in post#11?
Please ask specific questions.

would like to know what is the exact code to add in the TODO areas of the codes.

Take each of the TODO areas one at a time and ask some specific questions about the problems you are having with it.

What is the purpose of the CountDownLatch object? How will the code use it to control the code's execution?
Will the CountDownLatch objects be created in the Newspaper objects or in the Election object?
See the CountDownLatch class's API doc for an idea.

used to control results of polls

I guess I'm not sure what the assignment is supposed to do.
This statement:

ensure that the election results are not published until all the polls are in.

implies to me that the CDL should prevent the results from being published until AFTER all newspapers have finished polling. That means that there needs to be coordination between the newspapers. How will that be done using a CDL?

Is this the programming problem?
How will the CDL be used to make sure the newspapers don't publish their results until all newspapers have finished their polling?

How can the CDL be used to make sure all results are in BEFORE any results are printed?
Each newspaper needs to wait until all the newspapers are finished polling.

Did you read the example in the API doc for the CDL class?

I have run the program.

I'll help you get your code to work after you've fully described how the CDL is supposed to be used.
The first question is: where should the CDL object(s) be defined? Is there one or more that one?
Which methods of the CDL class will be used and how?

Sorry, I don't write solutions for students.

Try to answer the questions in post#26. If you don't understand any of the questions, post the question and ask your questions about it.

methods of CDL to be used in this context are the incremental await and signal

Where are you reading the API doc? I don't see a signal() method in the API doc I'm looking at:
Java Platform SE 7

Where will the CDL object's constructor be called to create a new CDL object? There are two classes.
If the newspaper objects are to use the same CDL, how will they get references to it? See the code example in the API doc.

threads of Election results to wait while threads of newspaper results

That is confusing. There is only one thread that uses the Election class's method and that is in the main() method.
The CDL is used to force the threads in the newspaper objects to wait until all the results have been gathered by the polling.
To wait the threads need to call the await() method.
To tell everyone that its polling is done, the thread needs to call the couuntd0wn method.

I've made simple versions of those classes for testing. They are not really needed yet.

Continue working on how to use the CDL to make the NP wait for the end of polling.