Locking issue

[efoe akolly]

Hi Guys,
I am confused about how to implement the locking mechanism for my assignment. I have the following signature:

public long lock(int recNo)
public void unlock(int recNo, long cookie)

Should I consider the cookie as the client id?
Please help me out.
Thanks

[Charlie Goth]

Read the comments on the lock method in the interface Sun gave you.

Charlie

[HaoZhe Xu]

My assignment is difference from yours, but the locking was similar, I used a HashMap to store the locked records, according to your situation, the key should be the cookie, the value should be the locked record (record number), some people used a LockManager, i think that is a better way, I only got 44 out of 80 about locking

[mike acre]

In reply to: HaoZhe XU

the key should be the cookie, the value should be the locked record (record number)

Eh? The record is unique, only one client can lock a specific record at a time, that is rather the whole point.
Although the cookie is probably best unique, this is not a requirement and nothing disastorous is going to go wrong if it isn't.
Surely this means that it is better if the recNo is the key.

Glad you mentioned your 44/80, I will upgrade to LockManager, did you not implement timeouts on cookies?