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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>;
~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