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 #ifndef BASE_FILES_IMPORTANT_FILE_WRITER_H_ 6 #define BASE_FILES_IMPORTANT_FILE_WRITER_H_ 7 8 #include <string> 9 10 #include "base/base_export.h" 11 #include "base/basictypes.h" 12 #include "base/callback.h" 13 #include "base/files/file_path.h" 14 #include "base/memory/ref_counted.h" 15 #include "base/threading/non_thread_safe.h" 16 #include "base/time/time.h" 17 #include "base/timer/timer.h" 18 19 namespace base { 20 21 class SequencedTaskRunner; 22 class Thread; 23 24 // Helper to ensure that a file won't be corrupted by the write (for example on 25 // application crash). Consider a naive way to save an important file F: 26 // 27 // 1. Open F for writing, truncating it. 28 // 2. Write new data to F. 29 // 30 // It's good when it works, but it gets very bad if step 2. doesn't complete. 31 // It can be caused by a crash, a computer hang, or a weird I/O error. And you 32 // end up with a broken file. 33 // 34 // To be safe, we don't start with writing directly to F. Instead, we write to 35 // to a temporary file. Only after that write is successful, we rename the 36 // temporary file to target filename. 37 // 38 // If you want to know more about this approach and ext3/ext4 fsync issues, see 39 // http://valhenson.livejournal.com/37921.html 40 class BASE_EXPORT ImportantFileWriter : public NonThreadSafe { 41 public: 42 // Used by ScheduleSave to lazily provide the data to be saved. Allows us 43 // to also batch data serializations. 44 class BASE_EXPORT DataSerializer { 45 public: 46 // Should put serialized string in |data| and return true on successful 47 // serialization. Will be called on the same thread on which 48 // ImportantFileWriter has been created. 49 virtual bool SerializeData(std::string* data) = 0; 50 51 protected: 52 virtual ~DataSerializer() {} 53 }; 54 55 // Save |data| to |path| in an atomic manner (see the class comment above). 56 // Blocks and writes data on the current thread. 57 static bool WriteFileAtomically(const FilePath& path, 58 const std::string& data); 59 60 // Initialize the writer. 61 // |path| is the name of file to write. 62 // |task_runner| is the SequencedTaskRunner instance where on which we will 63 // execute file I/O operations. 64 // All non-const methods, ctor and dtor must be called on the same thread. 65 ImportantFileWriter(const FilePath& path, 66 base::SequencedTaskRunner* task_runner); 67 68 // You have to ensure that there are no pending writes at the moment 69 // of destruction. 70 ~ImportantFileWriter(); 71 72 const FilePath& path() const { return path_; } 73 74 // Returns true if there is a scheduled write pending which has not yet 75 // been started. 76 bool HasPendingWrite() const; 77 78 // Save |data| to target filename. Does not block. If there is a pending write 79 // scheduled by ScheduleWrite, it is cancelled. 80 void WriteNow(const std::string& data); 81 82 // Schedule a save to target filename. Data will be serialized and saved 83 // to disk after the commit interval. If another ScheduleWrite is issued 84 // before that, only one serialization and write to disk will happen, and 85 // the most recent |serializer| will be used. This operation does not block. 86 // |serializer| should remain valid through the lifetime of 87 // ImportantFileWriter. 88 void ScheduleWrite(DataSerializer* serializer); 89 90 // Serialize data pending to be saved and execute write on backend thread. 91 void DoScheduledWrite(); 92 93 // Registers |on_next_successful_write| to be called once, on the next 94 // successful write event. Only one callback can be set at once. 95 void RegisterOnNextSuccessfulWriteCallback( 96 const base::Closure& on_next_successful_write); 97 98 TimeDelta commit_interval() const { 99 return commit_interval_; 100 } 101 102 void set_commit_interval(const TimeDelta& interval) { 103 commit_interval_ = interval; 104 } 105 106 private: 107 // Helper method for WriteNow(). 108 bool PostWriteTask(const std::string& data); 109 110 // If |result| is true and |on_next_successful_write_| is set, invokes 111 // |on_successful_write_| and then resets it; no-ops otherwise. 112 void ForwardSuccessfulWrite(bool result); 113 114 // Invoked once and then reset on the next successful write event. 115 base::Closure on_next_successful_write_; 116 117 // Path being written to. 118 const FilePath path_; 119 120 // TaskRunner for the thread on which file I/O can be done. 121 const scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner> task_runner_; 122 123 // Timer used to schedule commit after ScheduleWrite. 124 OneShotTimer<ImportantFileWriter> timer_; 125 126 // Serializer which will provide the data to be saved. 127 DataSerializer* serializer_; 128 129 // Time delta after which scheduled data will be written to disk. 130 TimeDelta commit_interval_; 131 132 WeakPtrFactory<ImportantFileWriter> weak_factory_; 133 134 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ImportantFileWriter); 135 }; 136 137 } // namespace base 138 139 #endif // BASE_FILES_IMPORTANT_FILE_WRITER_H_ 140