Checking whether the current thread owns a lock

Question

Suppose I have the following code:

public class SomeClass()
{
    private readonly object _lock = new object();

    public void SomeMethodA()
    {
        lock         


        

Answer 1

I had similiar requirements of checking whether a lock is locked by the current thread, so I can do something like this.

public void Method1()
{
    if(!lockHeld()) lock();
    //DO something
}
public void Method2()
{
    if(!lockHeld()) lock();
    //DO something
}
public void Method3()
{
    if(!lockHeld()) lock();

    //Do something

    unlock()
}

So I wrote myself a class for that:

public class LockObject
{
    private Object internalLock;

    private bool isLocked;
    public bool IsLocked
    {
        get { lock (internalLock) return isLocked; }
        private set { lock (internalLock) isLocked = value; }
    }

    public LockObject()
    {
        internalLock = new object();
    }

    public void UsingLock(Action method)
    {
        try
        {
            Monitor.Enter(this);
            this.IsLocked = true;

            method();
        }
        finally
        {
            this.IsLocked = false;
            Monitor.Exit(this);
        }
    }
}

Then I can use it as:

    public void Example()
    {
        var obj = new LockObject();

        obj.UsingLock(() =>
        {
            //Locked, and obj.IsLocked = true
        });
    }

Note: I ommitted the Lock() Unlock() Methods on this class, but pretty much just wrappers to Monitor.Enter/Exit that set IsLocked to true. The example just illustrates that its very similar to lock(){ } in terms on style.

Might be unnecessary, but this is useful for me.