前言
本月还没有写过Java相关的东西，今天终于挤出点时间来了，弄一篇基础知识吧。
WeakHashMap是平时常见的HashMap的变种，它是基于弱引用（WeakReference）的。我们已经知道，不管内存是否足够，弱引用对象都会随着GC被回收，所以WeakHashMap特别适用于内存敏感的局部缓存场景。本文简单探究一下它的部分实现细节。
属性
WeakHashMap的属性比HashMap来得简单，列举如下。
public class WeakHashMap
extends AbstractMap
implements Map {
/**
* The default initial capacity -- MUST be a power of two.
*/
private static final int DEFAULT_INITIAL_CAPACITY = 16;
/**
* The maximum capacity, used if a higher value is implicitly specified
* by either of the constructors with arguments.
* MUST be a power of two <= 1<<30.
*/
private static final int MAXIMUM_CAPACITY = 1 << 30;
/**
* The load factor used when none specified in constructor.
*/
private static final float DEFAULT_LOAD_FACTOR = 0.75f;
/**
* The table, resized as necessary. Length MUST Always be a power of two.
*/
Entry[] table;
/**
* The number of key-value mappings contained in this weak hash map.
*/
private int size;
/**
* The next size value at which to resize (capacity * load factor).
*/
private int threshold;
/**
* The load factor for the hash table.
*/
private final float loadFactor;
/**
* Reference queue for cleared WeakEntries
*/
private final ReferenceQueue WeakHashMap的初始容量、最大容量和默认装载因子与HashMap相同，但是没有转化成红黑树的阈值（TREEIFY_THRESHOLD、MIN_TREEIFY_CAPACITY），说明WeakHashMap的哈希桶数组table是纯拉链的。另外一个不同点是WeakHashMap需要维护一个引用队列，弱引用会注册到这个引用队列，它的作用下面会看到。
Entry（键值对）结构
/**
* The entries in this hash table extend WeakReference, using its main ref
* field as the key.
*/
private static class Entry extends WeakReference Entry内部类直接继承自WeakReference，在构造Entry时也会先调用WeakReference的构造方法WeakReference(T referent, ReferenceQueue q)，传入被引用对象（Entry的key）和注册到的引用队列（queue），所以“弱Entry”的本质其实是“弱key”——即当key的可达性发生变化时（变为弱可达或者不可达），GC的同时会自动将key关联的Entry放入队列。
弱Entry的清除
WeakHashMap上的读写等操作就是HashMap对应逻辑的简化版，不再赘述，仅来看看弱Entry是如何被清除掉的。
如上图所示，对WeakHashMap的几乎所有操作都会调用getTable()这个方法来取得哈希桶数组。但是在返回table之前，要先调用expungeStaleEntries()方法：
private Entry[] getTable() {
expungeStaleEntries();
return table;
}
/**
* Expunges stale entries from the table.
*/
private void expungeStaleEntries() {
for (Object x; (x = queue.poll()) != null; ) {
synchronized (queue) {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
Entry e = (Entry) x;
int i = indexFor(e.hash, table.length);
Entry prev = table[i];
Entry p = prev;
while (p != null) {
Entry next = p.next;
if (p == e) {
if (prev == e)
table[i] = next;
else
prev.next = next;
// Must not null out e.next;
// stale entries may be in use by a HashIterator
e.value = null; // Help GC
size--;
break;
}
prev = p;
p = next;
}
}
}
} expungeStaleEntries()方法会加锁遍历引用队列，取出其中已经被回收掉key的Entry，调用indexFor()方法根据其哈希值定位到哈希桶数组中的桶，再遍历桶对应的单链表，删除对应的Entry（注意区分Entry是否在链表头的情况）。
可见，所谓“删除”只是将Entry的value置为空，因为key已经被回收掉了，这样做就能保证整个Entry在下一次GC时被彻底清理。通过在增删改查之前调用expungeStaleEntries()方法，GC的效果就可以及时地反映到table上了。
一个小问题
看官可能会有些疑惑：构造Entry时使用的弱引用referent明明是key，为什么从引用队列poll时，出来的却是Entry
/**
* Adds this reference object to the queue with which it is registered,
* if any.
*
* This method is invoked only by Java code; when the garbage collector
* enqueues references it does so directly, without invoking this method.
*
* @return true if this reference object was successfully
* enqueued; false if it was already enqueued or if
* it was not registered with a queue when it was created
*/
public boolean enqueue() {
return this.queue.enqueue(this);
}
// 这是ReferenceQueue.enqueue()方法
boolean enqueue(Reference r) { /* Called only by Reference class */
synchronized (lock) {
// Check that since getting the lock this reference hasn't already been
// enqueued (and even then removed)
ReferenceQueue queue = r.queue;
if ((queue == NULL) || (queue == ENQUEUED)) {
return false;
}
assert queue == this;
r.queue = ENQUEUED;
r.next = (head == null) ? r : head;
head = r;
queueLength++;
if (r instanceof FinalReference) {
sun.misc.VM.addFinalRefCount(1);
}
lock.notifyAll();
return true;
}
}
从注释可知，当垃圾收集器将引用插入引用队列时，虽然不会真正调用上述enqueue()方法，但是逻辑是相同的，都是插入this。也就是说，实际进入引用队列的要么是WeakReference本身，要么是继承了WeakReference的对象实例——在WeakHashMap中自然就是Entry了。
测试一下
public class WeakHashMapExample {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
WeakHashMap map = new WeakHashMap<>();
map.put("first", 1);
map.put(new String("second"), 2);
String third = new String("third");
map.put(third, 3);
System.gc();
System.out.println(map.get("first")); // 1
System.out.println(map.get("second")); // null
System.out.println(map.get("third")); // 3
}
} 注意到只有"second"会消失。"first"位于字符串常量池中，"third"保持有强引用，所以手动触发GC不会将它们回收掉。
The End
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