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Android异步消息机制

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目录介绍

1.Handler的常见的使用方式
2.如何在子线程中定义Handler
3.主线程如何自动调用Looper.prepare()
4.Looper.prepare()方法源码分析
5.Looper中用什么存储消息
6.Handler发送消息如何运作
7.Looper.loop()方法源码分析
8.runOnUiThread如何实现子线程更新UI
9.Handler的post方法和view的post方法
10.得出部分结论

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00.Android异步消息机制
- 如何在子线程中定义Handler，主线程如何自动调用Looper.prepare()，Looper.prepare()方法源码分析，Looper中用什么存储消息，Looper.loop()方法源码分析，runOnUiThread如何实现子线程更新UI等等
01.Handler消息机制
- 为什么不允许在子线程中访问UI，Handler消息机制作用，避免子线程手动创建looper，ActivityThread源码分析，ActivityThread源码分析，Looper死循环为什么不会导致应用卡死，会消耗大量资源吗？

1.Handler的常见的使用方式

handler机制大家都比较熟悉呢。在子线程中发送消息，主线程接受到消息并且处理逻辑。如下所示

一般handler的使用方式都是在主线程中定义Handler，然后在子线程中调用mHandler.sendXx()方法，这里有一个疑问可以在子线程中定义Handler吗？

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { private TextView tv ; /** * 在主线程中定义Handler，并实现对应的handleMessage方法 */ public static Handler mHandler = new Handler() { @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { if (msg.what == 101) { Log.i("MainActivity", "接收到handler消息..."); } } }; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv); tv.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { new Thread() { @Override public void run() { // 在子线程中发送异步消息 mHandler.sendEmptyMessage(1); } }.start(); } }); } }

2.如何在子线程中定义Handler

直接在子线程中创建handler，看看会出现什么情况？
- 运行后可以得出在子线程中定义Handler对象出错，难道Handler对象的定义或者是初始化只能在主线程中？其实不是这样的，错误信息中提示的已经很明显了，在初始化Handler对象之前需要调用Looper.prepare()方法
```
tv.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { new Thread() { @Override public void run() { Handler mHandler = new Handler() { @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { if (msg.what == 1) { Log.i(TAG, "在子线程中定义Handler，接收并处理消息"); } } }; } }.start(); } });
```
- 如何正确运行。在这里问一个问题，在子线程中可以吐司吗？答案是可以的，只不过又条件，详细可以看这篇文章02.Toast源码深度分析
  - 这样程序已经不会报错，那么这说明初始化Handler对象的时候我们是需要调用Looper.prepare()的，那么主线程中为什么可以直接初始化Handler呢？难道是主线程创建handler对象的时候，会自动调用Looper.prepare()方法的吗？
```
tv.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { new Thread() { @Override public void run() { Looper.prepare(); Handler mHandler = new Handler() { @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { if (msg.what == 1) { Log.i(TAG, "在子线程中定义Handler，接收并处理消息"); } } }; Looper.loop(); } }.start(); } });
```

3.主线程如何自动调用Looper.prepare()

首先直接可以看在App初始化的时候会执行ActivityThread的main方法中的代码，如下所示

可以看到Looper.prepare()方法在这里调用，所以在主线程中可以直接初始化Handler了。

public static void main(String[] args) { //省略部分代码 Looper.prepareMainLooper(); ActivityThread thread = new ActivityThread(); thread.attach(false); if (sMainThreadHandler == null) { sMainThreadHandler = thread.getHandler(); } if (false) { Looper.myLooper().setMessageLogging(new LogPrinter(Log.DEBUG, "ActivityThread")); } Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER); Looper.loop(); throw new RuntimeException("Main thread loop unexpectedly exited"); }

并且可以看到还调用了：Looper.loop()方法，可以知道一个Handler的标准写法其实是这样的

Looper.prepare(); Handler mHandler = new Handler() { @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { if (msg.what == 101) { Log.i(TAG, "在子线程中定义Handler，并接收到消息"); } } }; Looper.loop();

4.Looper.prepare()方法源码分析

源码如下所示
- 可以看到Looper中有一个ThreadLocal成员变量，熟悉JDK的同学应该知道，当使用ThreadLocal维护变量时，ThreadLocal为每个使用该变量的线程提供独立的变量副本，所以每一个线程都可以独立地改变自己的副本，而不会影响其它线程所对应的副本。
```
public static void prepare() { prepare(true); } private static void prepare(boolean quitAllowed) { if (sThreadLocal.get() != null) { throw new RuntimeException("Only one Looper may be created per thread"); } sThreadLocal.set(new Looper(quitAllowed)); }
```

思考：Looper.prepare()能否调用两次或者多次

如果运行，则会报错，并提示prepare中的Excetion信息。由此可以得出在每个线程中Looper.prepare()能且只能调用一次

//这里Looper.prepare()方法调用了两次 Looper.prepare(); Looper.prepare(); Handler mHandler = new Handler() { @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { if (msg.what == 1) { Log.i(TAG, "在子线程中定义Handler，并接收到消息。。。"); } } }; Looper.loop();

5.Looper中用什么存储消息

先看一下下面得源代码

看Looper对象的构造方法，可以看到在其构造方法中初始化了一个MessageQueue对象。MessageQueue也称之为消息队列，特点是先进先出，底层实现是单链表数据结构

private static void prepare(boolean quitAllowed) { if (sThreadLocal.get() != null) { throw new RuntimeException("Only one Looper may be created per thread"); } sThreadLocal.set(new Looper(quitAllowed)); } private Looper(boolean quitAllowed) { mQueue = new MessageQueue(quitAllowed); mThread = Thread.currentThread(); }

得出结论
- Looper.prepare()方法初始话了一个Looper对象并关联在一个MessageQueue对象，并且一个线程中只有一个Looper对象，只有一个MessageQueue对象。

6.Handler发送消息如何运作

首先看看构造方法

可以看出在Handler的构造方法中，主要初始化了一下变量，并判断Handler对象的初始化不应再内部类，静态类，匿名类中，并且保存了当前线程中的Looper对象。

public Handler(Callback callback, boolean async) { if (FIND_POTENTIAL_LEAKS) { final Class<? extends Handler> klass = getClass(); if ((klass.isAnonymousClass() || klass.isMemberClass() || klass.isLocalClass()) && (klass.getModifiers() & Modifier.STATIC) == 0) { Log.w(TAG, "The following Handler class should be static or leaks might occur: " + klass.getCanonicalName()); } } mLooper = Looper.myLooper(); if (mLooper == null) { throw new RuntimeException( "Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()"); } mQueue = mLooper.mQueue; mCallback = callback; mAsynchronous = async; }

看handler.sendMessage(msg)方法

关于下面得源码，是步步追踪，看enqueueMessage这个方法，原来msg.target就是Handler对象本身；而这里的queue对象就是我们的Handler内部维护的Looper对象关联的MessageQueue对象。

handler.sendMessage(message); //追踪到这一步 public final boolean sendMessage(Message msg){ return sendMessageDelayed(msg, 0); } public boolean sendMessageAtTime(Message msg, long uptimeMillis) { MessageQueue queue = mQueue; if (queue == null) { RuntimeException e = new RuntimeException( this + " sendMessageAtTime() called with no mQueue"); Log.w("Looper", e.getMessage(), e); return false; } return enqueueMessage(queue, msg, uptimeMillis); } private boolean enqueueMessage(MessageQueue queue, Message msg, long uptimeMillis) { msg.target = this; if (mAsynchronous) { msg.setAsynchronous(true); } return queue.enqueueMessage(msg, uptimeMillis); }

看MessageQueue对象的enqueueMessage方法

看到这里MessageQueue并没有使用列表将所有的Message保存起来，而是使用Message.next保存下一个Message，从而按照时间将所有的Message排序

boolean enqueueMessage(Message msg, long when) { if (msg.target == null) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Message must have a target."); } if (msg.isInUse()) { throw new IllegalStateException(msg + " This message is already in use."); } synchronized (this) { if (mQuitting) { IllegalStateException e = new IllegalStateException( msg.target + " sending message to a Handler on a dead thread"); Log.w(TAG, e.getMessage(), e); msg.recycle(); return false; } msg.markInUse(); msg.when = when; Message p = mMessages; boolean needWake; if (p == null || when == 0 || when < p.when) { // New head, wake up the event queue if blocked. msg.next = p; mMessages = msg; needWake = mBlocked; } else { // Inserted within the middle of the queue. Usually we don't have to wake // up the event queue unless there is a barrier at the head of the queue // and the message is the earliest asynchronous message in the queue. needWake = mBlocked && p.target == null && msg.isAsynchronous(); Message prev; for (;;) { prev = p; p = p.next; if (p == null || when < p.when) { break; } if (needWake && p.isAsynchronous()) { needWake = false; } } msg.next = p; // invariant: p == prev.next prev.next = msg; } // We can assume mPtr != 0 because mQuitting is false. if (needWake) { nativeWake(mPtr); } } return true; }

7.Looper.loop()方法源码分析

看看里面得源码，如下所示

看到Looper.loop()方法里起了一个死循环，不断的判断MessageQueue中的消息是否为空，如果为空则直接return掉，然后执行queue.next()方法

public static void loop() { final Looper me = myLooper(); if (me == null) { throw new RuntimeException("No Looper; Looper.prepare() wasn't called on this thread."); } final MessageQueue queue = me.mQueue; Binder.clearCallingIdentity(); final long ident = Binder.clearCallingIdentity(); for (;;) { Message msg = queue.next(); // might block if (msg == null) { // No message indicates that the message queue is quitting. return; } // This must be in a local variable, in case a UI event sets the logger final Printer logging = me.mLogging; if (logging != null) { logging.println(">>>>> Dispatching to " + msg.target + " " + msg.callback + ": " + msg.what); } final long slowDispatchThresholdMs = me.mSlowDispatchThresholdMs; final long traceTag = me.mTraceTag; if (traceTag != 0 && Trace.isTagEnabled(traceTag)) { Trace.traceBegin(traceTag, msg.target.getTraceName(msg)); } final long start = (slowDispatchThresholdMs == 0) ? 0 : SystemClock.uptimeMillis(); final long end; try { msg.target.dispatchMessage(msg); end = (slowDispatchThresholdMs == 0) ? 0 : SystemClock.uptimeMillis(); } finally { if (traceTag != 0) { Trace.traceEnd(traceTag); } } if (slowDispatchThresholdMs > 0) { final long time = end - start; if (time > slowDispatchThresholdMs) { Slog.w(TAG, "Dispatch took " + time + "ms on " + Thread.currentThread().getName() + ", h=" + msg.target + " cb=" + msg.callback + " msg=" + msg.what); } } if (logging != null) { logging.println("<<<<< Finished to " + msg.target + " " + msg.callback); } // Make sure that during the course of dispatching the // identity of the thread wasn't corrupted. final long newIdent = Binder.clearCallingIdentity(); if (ident != newIdent) { Log.wtf(TAG, "Thread identity changed from 0x" + Long.toHexString(ident) + " to 0x" + Long.toHexString(newIdent) + " while dispatching to " + msg.target.getClass().getName() + " " + msg.callback + " what=" + msg.what); } msg.recycleUnchecked(); } }

看queue.next()方法源码

大概的实现逻辑就是Message的出栈操作，里面可能对线程，并发控制做了一些限制等。获取到栈顶的Message对象之后开始执行：msg.target.dispatchMessage(msg)

Message next() { // Return here if the message loop has already quit and been disposed. // This can happen if the application tries to restart a looper after quit // which is not supported. final long ptr = mPtr; if (ptr == 0) { return null; } int pendingIdleHandlerCount = -1; // -1 only during first iteration int nextPollTimeoutMillis = 0; for (;;) { if (nextPollTimeoutMillis != 0) { Binder.flushPendingCommands(); } nativePollOnce(ptr, nextPollTimeoutMillis); synchronized (this) { // Try to retrieve the next message. Return if found. final long now = SystemClock.uptimeMillis(); Message prevMsg = null; Message msg = mMessages; if (msg != null && msg.target == null) { // Stalled by a barrier. Find the next asynchronous message in the queue. do { prevMsg = msg; msg = msg.next; } while (msg != null && !msg.isAsynchronous()); } if (msg != null) { if (now < msg.when) { // Next message is not ready. Set a timeout to wake up when it is ready. nextPollTimeoutMillis = (int) Math.min(msg.when - now, Integer.MAX_VALUE); } else { // Got a message. mBlocked = false; if (prevMsg != null) { prevMsg.next = msg.next; } else { mMessages = msg.next; } msg.next = null; if (DEBUG) Log.v(TAG, "Returning message: " + msg); msg.markInUse(); return msg; } } else { // No more messages. nextPollTimeoutMillis = -1; } // Process the quit message now that all pending messages have been handled. if (mQuitting) { dispose(); return null; } // If first time idle, then get the number of idlers to run. // Idle handles only run if the queue is empty or if the first message // in the queue (possibly a barrier) is due to be handled in the future. if (pendingIdleHandlerCount < 0 && (mMessages == null || now < mMessages.when)) { pendingIdleHandlerCount = mIdleHandlers.size(); } if (pendingIdleHandlerCount <= 0) { // No idle handlers to run. Loop and wait some more. mBlocked = true; continue; } if (mPendingIdleHandlers == null) { mPendingIdleHandlers = new IdleHandler[Math.max(pendingIdleHandlerCount, 4)]; } mPendingIdleHandlers = mIdleHandlers.toArray(mPendingIdleHandlers); } // Run the idle handlers. // We only ever reach this code block during the first iteration. for (int i = 0; i < pendingIdleHandlerCount; i++) { final IdleHandler idler = mPendingIdleHandlers[i]; mPendingIdleHandlers[i] = null; // release the reference to the handler boolean keep = false; try { keep = idler.queueIdle(); } catch (Throwable t) { Log.wtf(TAG, "IdleHandler threw exception", t); } if (!keep) { synchronized (this) { mIdleHandlers.remove(idler); } } } // Reset the idle handler count to 0 so we do not run them again. pendingIdleHandlerCount = 0; // While calling an idle handler, a new message could have been delivered // so go back and look again for a pending message without waiting. nextPollTimeoutMillis = 0; } }

那么msg.target是什么呢？通过追踪可以知道就是定义的Handler对象，然后查看一下Handler类的dispatchMessage方法：
- 可以看到，如果我们设置了callback（Runnable对象）的话，则会直接调用handleCallback方法
- 在初始化Handler的时候设置了callback（Runnable）对象，则直接调用run方法。
```
public void dispatchMessage(Message msg) { if (msg.callback != null) { handleCallback(msg); } else { if (mCallback != null) { if (mCallback.handleMessage(msg)) { return; } } handleMessage(msg); } } private static void handleCallback(Message message) { message.callback.run(); }
```

8.runOnUiThread如何实现子线程更新UI

看看源码，如下所示
- 如果msg.callback为空的话，会直接调用我们的mCallback.handleMessage(msg)，即handler的handlerMessage方法。由于Handler对象是在主线程中创建的，所以handler的handlerMessage方法的执行也会在主线程中。
- 在runOnUiThread程序首先会判断当前线程是否是UI线程，如果是就直接运行，如果不是则post，这时其实质还是使用的Handler机制来处理线程与UI通讯。
```
public void dispatchMessage(Message msg) { if (msg.callback != null) { handleCallback(msg); } else { if (mCallback != null) { if (mCallback.handleMessage(msg)) { return; } } handleMessage(msg); } } @Override public final void runOnUiThread(Runnable action) { if (Thread.currentThread() != mUiThread) { mHandler.post(action); } else { action.run(); } }
```

9.Handler的post方法和view的post方法

Handler的post方法实现很简单，如下所示

mHandler.post(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { } }); public final boolean post(Runnable r){ return sendMessageDelayed(getPostMessage(r), 0); }

view的post方法也很简单，如下所示

可以发现其调用的就是activity中默认保存的handler对象的post方法

public boolean post(Runnable action) { final AttachInfo attachInfo = mAttachInfo; if (attachInfo != null) { return attachInfo.mHandler.post(action); } ViewRootImpl.getRunQueue().post(action); return true; } public void post(Runnable action) { postDelayed(action, 0); } public void postDelayed(Runnable action, long delayMillis) { final HandlerAction handlerAction = new HandlerAction(action, delayMillis); synchronized (this) { if (mActions == null) { mActions = new HandlerAction[4]; } mActions = GrowingArrayUtils.append(mActions, mCount, handlerAction); mCount++; } }

10.得出部分结论

得出得结论如下所示
- 1.主线程中定义Handler对象，ActivityThread的main方法中会自动创建一个looper，并且与其绑定。如果是子线程中直接创建handler对象，则需要手动创建looper。不过手动创建不太友好，需要手动调用quit方法结束looper。这个后面再说
- 2.一个线程中只存在一个Looper对象，只存在一个MessageQueue对象，可以存在N个Handler对象，Handler对象内部关联了本线程中唯一的Looper对象，Looper对象内部关联着唯一的一个MessageQueue对象。
- 3.MessageQueue消息队列不是通过列表保存消息（Message）列表的，而是通过Message对象的next属性关联下一个Message从而实现列表的功能，同时所有的消息都是按时间排序的。