FinalizableReference (Guava: Google Core Libraries for Java HEAD-jre-SNAPSHOT API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

FinalizablePhantomReference, FinalizableSoftReference, FinalizableWeakReference
```
@DoNotMock("Use an instance of one of the Finalizable*Reference classes")
@GwtIncompatible
public interface FinalizableReference
```
Implemented by references that have code to run after garbage collection of their referents.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Bob Lee

See Also:

FinalizableReferenceQueue

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`finalizeReferent()`	Invoked on a background thread after the referent has been garbage collected unless security restrictions prevented starting a background thread, in which case this method is invoked when new references are created.

- Method Detail
  - finalizeReferent
```
void finalizeReferent()
```
    Invoked on a background thread after the referent has been garbage collected unless security restrictions prevented starting a background thread, in which case this method is invoked when new references are created.