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Inconsistent synchronization of getter and setter — CodeQL query help documentation

ID: java/unsynchronized-getter
Kind: problem
Security severity: 
Severity: error
Precision: very-high
Tags:
   - quality
   - reliability
   - concurrency
   - language-features
   - external/cwe/cwe-413
   - external/cwe/cwe-662
Query suites:
   - java-code-quality.qls
   - java-security-and-quality.qls

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If a class has a synchronized set method and a similarly-named get method is not also synchronized, calls to the get method may not return a consistent state for the object.

Recommendation

Synchronize read operations as well as write operations. You should usually synchronize the get method.

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