Question

I have this class in which I run a for loop 10 times. This class implements Runnable interface. Now in main() I create 2 threads. Now both will run loop till 10. But I want to check loop count for each thread. If t1 is past 7 then make it sleep 1 second so as to let t2 complete. But how to achieve this? Please see the code. I attempted but looks totally foolish. Just how to check the data of a thread ???

class SimpleJob implements Runnable {
    int i;
    public void run(){
        for(i=0; i<10; i++){
            System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()+" Running ");
        }        
    }

    public int getCount(){
        return i;
    }
}
public class Threadings {
    public static void main(String [] args){
        SimpleJob sj = new SimpleJob();
        Thread t1 = new Thread(sj);
        Thread t2 = new Thread(sj);

        t1.setName("T1");
        t2.setName("T2");

        t1.start();
        try{
            if(sj.getCount() > 8){ // I know this looks totally ridiculous, but then how to check variable i being incremented by each thread??
                System.out.println("Here");
                Thread.sleep(2000);
            }            
        }catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println(e);
        }
        t2.start();
    }    
}

Please help

Answer 1

I added a synchronized Block, which can be entered by one thread at a time. Both threads call and enter the method parallel. One thread will win the race and take the lock. After the first thread leaves the block it waits 2 seconds. In this time the second thread can iterate over the loop. I think this behaviour is wanted. If the second thread must not wait 2 seconds, too, you can set some boolean flag, that the first thread finished the block and use this flag in an if statement, which prevents the wait time of the second thread.

class SimpleJob implements Runnable {
int i;
public void run(){

    synchronized (this) {
        for(i=0; i<8; i++){
            System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()+" Running ");
        } 
    } 

    try {
        System.out.println("Here");
        Thread.sleep(2000);
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    for(i=0; i<2; i++){
        System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()+" Running ");
    }
}

public int getCount(){
    return i;
}
}

public class Threadings {
public static void main(String [] args){
    SimpleJob sj = new SimpleJob();
    Thread t1 = new Thread(sj);
    Thread t2 = new Thread(sj);

    t1.setName("T1");
    t2.setName("T2");

    t1.start();
    t2.start();
}    
}