Get Synchronized Set example

In this example we shall show you how to get a Synchronized Set. We are using a HashSet, but the same API applies to any type of Set implementation. The Collections API provides us with methods so as to get synchronized (thread-safe) Collections from specific Collections. To get a synchronized Set one should perform the following steps:

• Create a new HashSet.
• Populate the new set with elements, using the add(E e) API method of the Set.
• Invoke the synchronizedSet(Set s) API method of Collections in order to return a synchronized (thread-safe) set backed by the specified set,

as described in the code snippet below.

package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core;
 
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
 
public class SynchronizedSetExample {
 
  public static void main(String[] args) {

    /*

Please note that the same API applies to any type of 

Set implementation class e.g. TreeSet etc
    */

    // Create a HashSet and populate it with elements
    HashSet hashSet = new HashSet();
    hashSet.add("element_1");
    hashSet.add("element_2");
    hashSet.add("element_3");
 
    // static void synchronizedSet(Set set) method returns a synchronized Set from HashSet
    Set syncSet = Collections.synchronizedSet(hashSet);

    System.out.println("syncSet contains : " + syncSet);
 
  }
}

Output:

syncSet contains : [element_1, element_2, element_3]

 
This was an example of how to get a Synchronized Set in Java.