AtomicLong represents a long value that may be updated atomically.
An atomic operation performs a single unit of work on a resource. During that operation, no other operations are allowed on the same resource until the operation is complete.
The AtomicLong is present in the java.util.concurrent.atomic package.
The get() method of the AtomicLong is used to get the value present in the AtomicLong object.
public final long get()
This method does not take any argument.
This method returns the value present in the AtomicLong object.
The code below demonstrates the use of the get() method.
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;class Get{public static void main(String[] args) {// the value is 10AtomicLong atomicLong = new AtomicLong(10);// calling the get() methodlong val = atomicLong.get();// displaying the valueSystem.out.println("The value in the atomicLong object is " + val);}}
Line 1: We import the AtomicLong class.
Line 5: We create a new object for the AtomicLong class with the name atomicLong and with the value 10.
Line 8: We use the get() method of the atomicLong and store it to the long variable val.
Line 11: We print the value.
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