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      1 // Copyright (c) 2012 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 file contains utility functions and classes that help the
      6 // implementation, and management of the Callback objects.
      7 
      8 #ifndef BASE_CALLBACK_INTERNAL_H_
      9 #define BASE_CALLBACK_INTERNAL_H_
     10 
     11 #include <stddef.h>
     12 
     13 #include "base/base_export.h"
     14 #include "base/memory/ref_counted.h"
     15 #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
     16 
     17 template <typename T>
     18 class ScopedVector;
     19 
     20 namespace base {
     21 namespace internal {
     22 
     23 // BindStateBase is used to provide an opaque handle that the Callback
     24 // class can use to represent a function object with bound arguments.  It
     25 // behaves as an existential type that is used by a corresponding
     26 // DoInvoke function to perform the function execution.  This allows
     27 // us to shield the Callback class from the types of the bound argument via
     28 // "type erasure."
     29 class BindStateBase : public RefCountedThreadSafe<BindStateBase> {
     30  protected:
     31   friend class RefCountedThreadSafe<BindStateBase>;
     32   virtual ~BindStateBase() {}
     33 };
     34 
     35 // Holds the Callback methods that don't require specialization to reduce
     36 // template bloat.
     37 class BASE_EXPORT CallbackBase {
     38  public:
     39   // Returns true if Callback is null (doesn't refer to anything).
     40   bool is_null() const;
     41 
     42   // Returns the Callback into an uninitialized state.
     43   void Reset();
     44 
     45  protected:
     46   // In C++, it is safe to cast function pointers to function pointers of
     47   // another type. It is not okay to use void*. We create a InvokeFuncStorage
     48   // that that can store our function pointer, and then cast it back to
     49   // the original type on usage.
     50   typedef void(*InvokeFuncStorage)(void);
     51 
     52   // Returns true if this callback equals |other|. |other| may be null.
     53   bool Equals(const CallbackBase& other) const;
     54 
     55   // Allow initializing of |bind_state_| via the constructor to avoid default
     56   // initialization of the scoped_refptr.  We do not also initialize
     57   // |polymorphic_invoke_| here because doing a normal assignment in the
     58   // derived Callback templates makes for much nicer compiler errors.
     59   explicit CallbackBase(BindStateBase* bind_state);
     60 
     61   // Force the destructor to be instantiated inside this translation unit so
     62   // that our subclasses will not get inlined versions.  Avoids more template
     63   // bloat.
     64   ~CallbackBase();
     65 
     66   scoped_refptr<BindStateBase> bind_state_;
     67   InvokeFuncStorage polymorphic_invoke_;
     68 };
     69 
     70 // A helper template to determine if given type is non-const move-only-type,
     71 // i.e. if a value of the given type should be passed via .Pass() in a
     72 // destructive way.
     73 template <typename T> struct IsMoveOnlyType {
     74   template <typename U>
     75   static YesType Test(const typename U::MoveOnlyTypeForCPP03*);
     76 
     77   template <typename U>
     78   static NoType Test(...);
     79 
     80   static const bool value = sizeof(Test<T>(0)) == sizeof(YesType) &&
     81                             !is_const<T>::value;
     82 };
     83 
     84 // This is a typetraits object that's used to take an argument type, and
     85 // extract a suitable type for storing and forwarding arguments.
     86 //
     87 // In particular, it strips off references, and converts arrays to
     88 // pointers for storage; and it avoids accidentally trying to create a
     89 // "reference of a reference" if the argument is a reference type.
     90 //
     91 // This array type becomes an issue for storage because we are passing bound
     92 // parameters by const reference. In this case, we end up passing an actual
     93 // array type in the initializer list which C++ does not allow.  This will
     94 // break passing of C-string literals.
     95 template <typename T, bool is_move_only = IsMoveOnlyType<T>::value>
     96 struct CallbackParamTraits {
     97   typedef const T& ForwardType;
     98   typedef T StorageType;
     99 };
    100 
    101 // The Storage should almost be impossible to trigger unless someone manually
    102 // specifies type of the bind parameters.  However, in case they do,
    103 // this will guard against us accidentally storing a reference parameter.
    104 //
    105 // The ForwardType should only be used for unbound arguments.
    106 template <typename T>
    107 struct CallbackParamTraits<T&, false> {
    108   typedef T& ForwardType;
    109   typedef T StorageType;
    110 };
    111 
    112 // Note that for array types, we implicitly add a const in the conversion. This
    113 // means that it is not possible to bind array arguments to functions that take
    114 // a non-const pointer. Trying to specialize the template based on a "const
    115 // T[n]" does not seem to match correctly, so we are stuck with this
    116 // restriction.
    117 template <typename T, size_t n>
    118 struct CallbackParamTraits<T[n], false> {
    119   typedef const T* ForwardType;
    120   typedef const T* StorageType;
    121 };
    122 
    123 // See comment for CallbackParamTraits<T[n]>.
    124 template <typename T>
    125 struct CallbackParamTraits<T[], false> {
    126   typedef const T* ForwardType;
    127   typedef const T* StorageType;
    128 };
    129 
    130 // Parameter traits for movable-but-not-copyable scopers.
    131 //
    132 // Callback<>/Bind() understands movable-but-not-copyable semantics where
    133 // the type cannot be copied but can still have its state destructively
    134 // transferred (aka. moved) to another instance of the same type by calling a
    135 // helper function.  When used with Bind(), this signifies transferal of the
    136 // object's state to the target function.
    137 //
    138 // For these types, the ForwardType must not be a const reference, or a
    139 // reference.  A const reference is inappropriate, and would break const
    140 // correctness, because we are implementing a destructive move.  A non-const
    141 // reference cannot be used with temporaries which means the result of a
    142 // function or a cast would not be usable with Callback<> or Bind().
    143 template <typename T>
    144 struct CallbackParamTraits<T, true> {
    145   typedef T ForwardType;
    146   typedef T StorageType;
    147 };
    148 
    149 // CallbackForward() is a very limited simulation of C++11's std::forward()
    150 // used by the Callback/Bind system for a set of movable-but-not-copyable
    151 // types.  It is needed because forwarding a movable-but-not-copyable
    152 // argument to another function requires us to invoke the proper move
    153 // operator to create a rvalue version of the type.  The supported types are
    154 // whitelisted below as overloads of the CallbackForward() function. The
    155 // default template compiles out to be a no-op.
    156 //
    157 // In C++11, std::forward would replace all uses of this function.  However, it
    158 // is impossible to implement a general std::forward with C++11 due to a lack
    159 // of rvalue references.
    160 //
    161 // In addition to Callback/Bind, this is used by PostTaskAndReplyWithResult to
    162 // simulate std::forward() and forward the result of one Callback as a
    163 // parameter to another callback. This is to support Callbacks that return
    164 // the movable-but-not-copyable types whitelisted above.
    165 template <typename T>
    166 typename enable_if<!IsMoveOnlyType<T>::value, T>::type& CallbackForward(T& t) {
    167   return t;
    168 }
    169 
    170 template <typename T>
    171 typename enable_if<IsMoveOnlyType<T>::value, T>::type CallbackForward(T& t) {
    172   return t.Pass();
    173 }
    174 
    175 }  // namespace internal
    176 }  // namespace base
    177 
    178 #endif  // BASE_CALLBACK_INTERNAL_H_
    179