com.sleepycat.je
Class LockMode

java.lang.Object
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public class LockMode

extends Object

Locking modes for database operations. Locking modes are required parameters for operations that retrieve data or modify the database.

Field Summary

static LockMode	DEFAULT Acquire read locks for read operations and write locks for write operations.
static LockMode	DIRTY_READ Read modified but not yet committed data.
static LockMode	RMW Acquire write locks instead of read locks when doing the retrieval.

Method Summary

String

toString() Provide a string representation of the enumeration.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

DEFAULT

public static final LockMode DEFAULT

Acquire read locks for read operations and write locks for write operations.

DIRTY_READ

public static final LockMode DIRTY_READ

Read modified but not yet committed data.

RMW

public static final LockMode RMW

Acquire write locks instead of read locks when doing the retrieval. Setting this flag can eliminate deadlock during a read-modify-write cycle by acquiring the write lock during the read part of the cycle so that another thread of control acquiring a read lock for the same item, in its own read-modify-write cycle, will not result in deadlock.

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()

Provide a string representation of the enumeration.

Overrides:

toString in class Object