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      1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 // This defines a set of argument wrappers and related factory methods that
      6 // can be used specify the refcounting and reference semantics of arguments
      7 // that are bound by the Bind() function in base/bind.h.
      8 //
      9 // The public functions are base::Unretained() and base::ConstRef().
     10 // Unretained() allows Bind() to bind a non-refcounted class.
     11 // ConstRef() allows binding a constant reference to an argument rather
     12 // than a copy.
     13 //
     14 //
     15 // EXAMPLE OF Unretained():
     16 //
     17 //   class Foo {
     18 //    public:
     19 //     void func() { cout << "Foo:f" << endl;
     20 //   };
     21 //
     22 //   // In some function somewhere.
     23 //   Foo foo;
     24 //   Callback<void(void)> foo_callback =
     25 //       Bind(&Foo::func, Unretained(&foo));
     26 //   foo_callback.Run();  // Prints "Foo:f".
     27 //
     28 // Without the Unretained() wrapper on |&foo|, the above call would fail
     29 // to compile because Foo does not support the AddRef() and Release() methods.
     30 //
     31 //
     32 // EXAMPLE OF ConstRef();
     33 //   void foo(int arg) { cout << arg << endl }
     34 //
     35 //   int n = 1;
     36 //   Callback<void(void)> no_ref = Bind(&foo, n);
     37 //   Callback<void(void)> has_ref = Bind(&foo, ConstRef(n));
     38 //
     39 //   no_ref.Run();  // Prints "1"
     40 //   has_ref.Run();  // Prints "1"
     41 //
     42 //   n = 2;
     43 //   no_ref.Run();  // Prints "1"
     44 //   has_ref.Run();  // Prints "2"
     45 //
     46 // Note that because ConstRef() takes a reference on |n|, |n| must outlive all
     47 // its bound callbacks.
     48 //
     49 
     50 #ifndef BASE_BIND_HELPERS_H_
     51 #define BASE_BIND_HELPERS_H_
     52 #pragma once
     53 
     54 #include "base/basictypes.h"
     55 #include "base/template_util.h"
     56 
     57 namespace base {
     58 namespace internal {
     59 
     60 // Use the Substitution Failure Is Not An Error (SFINAE) trick to inspect T
     61 // for the existence of AddRef() and Release() functions of the correct
     62 // signature.
     63 //
     64 // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_failure_is_not_an_error
     65 // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257288/is-it-possible-to-write-a-c-template-to-check-for-a-functions-existence
     66 // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4358584/sfinae-approach-comparison
     67 // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966362/sfinae-to-check-for-inherited-member-functions
     68 //
     69 // The last link in particular show the method used below.
     70 //
     71 // For SFINAE to work with inherited methods, we need to pull some extra tricks
     72 // with multiple inheritance.  In the more standard formulation, the overloads
     73 // of Check would be:
     74 //
     75 //   template <typename C>
     76 //   Yes NotTheCheckWeWant(Helper<&C::TargetFunc>*);
     77 //
     78 //   template <typename C>
     79 //   No NotTheCheckWeWant(...);
     80 //
     81 //   static const bool value = sizeof(NotTheCheckWeWant<T>(0)) == sizeof(Yes);
     82 //
     83 // The problem here is that template resolution will not match
     84 // C::TargetFunc if TargetFunc does not exist directly in C.  That is, if
     85 // TargetFunc in inherited from an ancestor, &C::TargetFunc will not match,
     86 // |value| will be false.  This formulation only checks for whether or
     87 // not TargetFunc exist directly in the class being introspected.
     88 //
     89 // To get around this, we play a dirty trick with multiple inheritance.
     90 // First, We create a class BaseMixin that declares each function that we
     91 // want to probe for.  Then we create a class Base that inherits from both T
     92 // (the class we wish to probe) and BaseMixin.  Note that the function
     93 // signature in BaseMixin does not need to match the signature of the function
     94 // we are probing for; thus it's easiest to just use void(void).
     95 //
     96 // Now, if TargetFunc exists somewhere in T, then &Base::TargetFunc has an
     97 // ambiguous resolution between BaseMixin and T.  This lets us write the
     98 // following:
     99 //
    100 //   template <typename C>
    101 //   No GoodCheck(Helper<&C::TargetFunc>*);
    102 //
    103 //   template <typename C>
    104 //   Yes GoodCheck(...);
    105 //
    106 //   static const bool value = sizeof(GoodCheck<Base>(0)) == sizeof(Yes);
    107 //
    108 // Notice here that the variadic version of GoodCheck() returns Yes here
    109 // instead of No like the previous one. Also notice that we calculate |value|
    110 // by specializing GoodCheck() on Base instead of T.
    111 //
    112 // We've reversed the roles of the variadic, and Helper overloads.
    113 // GoodCheck(Helper<&C::TargetFunc>*), when C = Base, fails to be a valid
    114 // substitution if T::TargetFunc exists. Thus GoodCheck<Base>(0) will resolve
    115 // to the variadic version if T has TargetFunc.  If T::TargetFunc does not
    116 // exist, then &C::TargetFunc is not ambiguous, and the overload resolution
    117 // will prefer GoodCheck(Helper<&C::TargetFunc>*).
    118 //
    119 // This method of SFINAE will correctly probe for inherited names, but it cannot
    120 // typecheck those names.  It's still a good enough sanity check though.
    121 //
    122 // Works on gcc-4.2, gcc-4.4, and Visual Studio 2008.
    123 //
    124 // TODO(ajwong): Move to ref_counted.h or template_util.h when we've vetted
    125 // this works well.
    126 template <typename T>
    127 class SupportsAddRefAndRelease {
    128   typedef char Yes[1];
    129   typedef char No[2];
    130 
    131   struct BaseMixin {
    132     void AddRef();
    133     void Release();
    134   };
    135 
    136 // MSVC warns when you try to use Base if T has a private destructor, the
    137 // common pattern for refcounted types. It does this even though no attempt to
    138 // instantiate Base is made.  We disable the warning for this definition.
    139 #if defined(OS_WIN)
    140 #pragma warning(disable:4624)
    141 #endif
    142   struct Base : public T, public BaseMixin {
    143   };
    144 #if defined(OS_WIN)
    145 #pragma warning(default:4624)
    146 #endif
    147 
    148   template <void(BaseMixin::*)(void)>  struct Helper {};
    149 
    150   template <typename C>
    151   static No& Check(Helper<&C::AddRef>*, Helper<&C::Release>*);
    152 
    153   template <typename >
    154   static Yes& Check(...);
    155 
    156  public:
    157   static const bool value = sizeof(Check<Base>(0,0)) == sizeof(Yes);
    158 };
    159 
    160 
    161 // Helpers to assert that arguments of a recounted type are bound with a
    162 // scoped_refptr.
    163 template <bool IsClasstype, typename T>
    164 struct UnsafeBindtoRefCountedArgHelper : false_type {
    165 };
    166 
    167 template <typename T>
    168 struct UnsafeBindtoRefCountedArgHelper<true, T>
    169     : integral_constant<bool, SupportsAddRefAndRelease<T>::value> {
    170 };
    171 
    172 template <typename T>
    173 struct UnsafeBindtoRefCountedArg : false_type {
    174 };
    175 
    176 template <typename T>
    177 struct UnsafeBindtoRefCountedArg<T*>
    178     : UnsafeBindtoRefCountedArgHelper<is_class<T>::value, T> {
    179 };
    180 
    181 
    182 template <typename T>
    183 class UnretainedWrapper {
    184  public:
    185   explicit UnretainedWrapper(T* o) : obj_(o) {}
    186   T* get() { return obj_; }
    187  private:
    188   T* obj_;
    189 };
    190 
    191 template <typename T>
    192 class ConstRefWrapper {
    193  public:
    194   explicit ConstRefWrapper(const T& o) : ptr_(&o) {}
    195   const T& get() { return *ptr_; }
    196  private:
    197   const T* ptr_;
    198 };
    199 
    200 
    201 // Unwrap the stored parameters for the wrappers above.
    202 template <typename T>
    203 T Unwrap(T o) { return o; }
    204 
    205 template <typename T>
    206 T* Unwrap(UnretainedWrapper<T> unretained) { return unretained.get(); }
    207 
    208 template <typename T>
    209 const T& Unwrap(ConstRefWrapper<T> const_ref) {
    210   return const_ref.get();
    211 }
    212 
    213 
    214 // Utility for handling different refcounting semantics in the Bind()
    215 // function.
    216 template <typename ref, typename T>
    217 struct MaybeRefcount;
    218 
    219 template <typename T>
    220 struct MaybeRefcount<base::false_type, T> {
    221   static void AddRef(const T&) {}
    222   static void Release(const T&) {}
    223 };
    224 
    225 template <typename T, size_t n>
    226 struct MaybeRefcount<base::false_type, T[n]> {
    227   static void AddRef(const T*) {}
    228   static void Release(const T*) {}
    229 };
    230 
    231 template <typename T>
    232 struct MaybeRefcount<base::true_type, UnretainedWrapper<T> > {
    233   static void AddRef(const UnretainedWrapper<T>&) {}
    234   static void Release(const UnretainedWrapper<T>&) {}
    235 };
    236 
    237 template <typename T>
    238 struct MaybeRefcount<base::true_type, T*> {
    239   static void AddRef(T* o) { o->AddRef(); }
    240   static void Release(T* o) { o->Release(); }
    241 };
    242 
    243 template <typename T>
    244 struct MaybeRefcount<base::true_type, const T*> {
    245   static void AddRef(const T* o) { o->AddRef(); }
    246   static void Release(const T* o) { o->Release(); }
    247 };
    248 
    249 }  // namespace internal
    250 
    251 template <typename T>
    252 inline internal::UnretainedWrapper<T> Unretained(T* o) {
    253   return internal::UnretainedWrapper<T>(o);
    254 }
    255 
    256 template <typename T>
    257 inline internal::ConstRefWrapper<T> ConstRef(const T& o) {
    258   return internal::ConstRefWrapper<T>(o);
    259 }
    260 
    261 }  // namespace base
    262 
    263 #endif  // BASE_BIND_HELPERS_H_
    264