Suppress FindBugs warnings in Eclipse

Question

I am using a string as a lock and so want to ensure the object is a new instance. FindBugs complains because it's generally more efficient to define the string directly (with double quotes). My code looks like:

/** A lock for the list of inputs. */
@edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.SuppressWarnings("DM_STRING_CTOR")
//We want a new String object here as this is a lock.
private final Object inputListLock = new String("inputListLock");

Am I doing something wrong here? The Eclipse FindBugs plugin is still reporting this as a problem:

Pattern id: DM_STRING_CTOR, type: Dm, category: PERFORMANCE

Using the java.lang.String(String) constructor wastes memory because the object so constructed will be functionally indistinguishable from the String passed as a parameter.  Just use the argument String directly.

Answer 1

Why not just declare the lock object as a new Object? You don't need to make it a String, since you don't do anything that requires the String-ness of the lock, and presumable you don't use it for anything other than locking.

Without seeing the rest of your code I can hazard a guess that you're locking on access to a list of some kind. You could use the list itself as the lock object. If it's private then there is no chance that someone else will cause a deadlock.