Java 多线程上下文传递在复杂场景下的实践

一、引言

海外商城从印度做起，慢慢地会有一些其他国家的诉求，这个时候需要我们针对当前的商城做一个改造，可以支撑多个国家的商城，这里会涉及多个问题，多语言，多国家，多时区，本地化等等。在多国家的情况下如何把识别出来的国家信息传递下去，一层一层直到代码执行的最后一步。甚至还有一些多线程的场景需要处理。

二、背景技术

2.1 ThreadLocal

ThreadLocal是最容易想到了，入口识别到国家信息后，丢进ThreadLocal，这样后续代码、redis、DB等做国家区分的时候都能使用到。

这里先简单介绍一下ThreadLocal：

/**
 * Sets the current thread's copy of this thread-local variable
 * to the specified value.  Most subclasses will have no need to
 * override this method, relying solely on the {@link #initialValue}
 * method to set the values of thread-locals.
 *
 * @param value the value to be stored in the current thread's copy of
 *        this thread-local.
 */
public void set(T value) {
    Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
    ThreadLocalMap map = getMap(t);
    if (map != null)
        map.set(this, value);
    else
        createMap(t, value);
}
 
 
/**
 * Returns the value in the current thread's copy of this
 * thread-local variable.  If the variable has no value for the
 * current thread, it is first initialized to the value returned
 * by an invocation of the {@link #initialValue} method.
 *
 * @return the current thread's value of this thread-local
 */
public T get() {
    Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
    ThreadLocalMap map = getMap(t);
    if (map != null) {
        ThreadLocalMap.Entry e = map.getEntry(this);
        if (e != null) {
            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            T result = (T)e.value;
            return result;
        }
    }
    return setInitialValue();
}
 
 
/**
 * Get the map associated with a ThreadLocal. Overridden in
 * InheritableThreadLocal.
 *
 * @param  t the current thread
 * @return the map
 */
ThreadLocalMap getMap(Thread t) {
    return t.threadLocals;
}
 
 
/**
 * Get the entry associated with key.  This method
 * itself handles only the fast path: a direct hit of existing
 * key. It otherwise relays to getEntryAfterMiss.  This is
 * designed to maximize performance for direct hits, in part
 * by making this method readily inlinable.
 *
 * @param  key the thread local object
 * @return the entry associated with key, or null if no such
 */
private Entry getEntry(ThreadLocal key) {
    int i = key.threadLocalHashCode & (table.length - 1);
    Entry e = table[i];
    if (e != null && e.get() == key)
        return e;
    else
        return getEntryAfterMiss(key, i, e);
}

• 每一个Thread线程都有属于自己的threadLocals(ThreadLocalMap),里面有一个弱引用的Entry(ThreadLocal,Object)。
• get方法首先通过Thread.currentThread得到当前线程，然后拿到线程的threadLocals(ThreadLocalMap)，再从Entry中取得当前线程存储的value。
• set值的时候更改当前线程的threadLocals(ThreadLocalMap)中Entry对应的value值。

实际使用中除了同步方法之外，还有起异步线程处理的场景，这个时候就需要把ThreadLocal的内容从父线程传递给子线程，这个怎么办呢？

不急，Java 还有InheritableThreadLocal来帮我们解决这个问题。

2.2 InheritableThreadLoca

public class InheritableThreadLocal extends ThreadLocal {
    /**
     * Computes the child's initial value for this inheritable thread-local
     * variable as a function of the parent's value at the time the child
     * thread is created.  This method is called from within the parent
     * thread before the child is started.
     * 

     * This method merely returns its input argument, and should be overridden
     * if a different behavior is desired.
     *
     * @param parentValue the parent thread's value
     * @return the child thread's initial value
     */
    protected T childValue(T parentValue) {
        return parentValue;
    }
 
    /**
     * Get the map associated with a ThreadLocal.
     *
     * @param t the current thread
     */
    ThreadLocalMap getMap(Thread t) {
       return t.inheritableThreadLocals;
    }
 
    /**
     * Create the map associated with a ThreadLocal.
     *
     * @param t the current thread
     * @param firstValue value for the initial entry of the table.
     */
    void createMap(Thread t, T firstValue) {
        t.inheritableThreadLocals = new ThreadLocalMap(this, firstValue);
    }
}

• java.lang.Thread#init(java.lang.ThreadGroup, java.lang.Runnable, java.lang.String, long, java.security.AccessControlContext, boolean）

if (inheritThreadLocals && parent.inheritableThreadLocals != null)
    this.inheritableThreadLocals =
        ThreadLocal.createInheritedMap(parent.inheritableThreadLocals);

• InheritableThreadLocal操作的是inheritableThreadLocals这个变量，而不是ThreadLocal操作的threadLocals变量。
• 创建新线程的时候会检查父线程中parent.inheritableThreadLocals变量是否为null，如果不为null则复制一份parent.inheritableThreadLocals的数据到子线程的this.inheritableThreadLocals中去。
• 因为复写了getMap(Thread)和CreateMap()方法直接操作inheritableThreadLocals，这样就实现了在子线程中获取父线程ThreadLocal值。