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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 #include <map>
13 #include <memory>
14 #include <type_traits>
15 #include <vector>
16 
17 #include "base/atomic_ref_count.h"
18 #include "base/base_export.h"
19 #include "base/macros.h"
20 #include "base/memory/ref_counted.h"
21 #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
22 #include "base/template_util.h"
23 
24 namespace base {
25 namespace internal {
26 class CallbackBase;
27 
28 // BindStateBase is used to provide an opaque handle that the Callback
29 // class can use to represent a function object with bound arguments.  It
30 // behaves as an existential type that is used by a corresponding
31 // DoInvoke function to perform the function execution.  This allows
32 // us to shield the Callback class from the types of the bound argument via
33 // "type erasure."
34 // At the base level, the only task is to add reference counting data. Don't use
35 // RefCountedThreadSafe since it requires the destructor to be a virtual method.
36 // Creating a vtable for every BindState template instantiation results in a lot
37 // of bloat. Its only task is to call the destructor which can be done with a
38 // function pointer.
39 class BindStateBase {
40  protected:
BindStateBase(void (* destructor)(BindStateBase *))41   explicit BindStateBase(void (*destructor)(BindStateBase*))
42       : ref_count_(0), destructor_(destructor) {}
43   ~BindStateBase() = default;
44 
45  private:
46   friend class scoped_refptr<BindStateBase>;
47   friend class CallbackBase;
48 
49   void AddRef();
50   void Release();
51 
52   AtomicRefCount ref_count_;
53 
54   // Pointer to a function that will properly destroy |this|.
55   void (*destructor_)(BindStateBase*);
56 
57   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(BindStateBase);
58 };
59 
60 // Holds the Callback methods that don't require specialization to reduce
61 // template bloat.
62 class BASE_EXPORT CallbackBase {
63  public:
64   CallbackBase(const CallbackBase& c);
65   CallbackBase& operator=(const CallbackBase& c);
66 
67   // Returns true if Callback is null (doesn't refer to anything).
is_null()68   bool is_null() const { return bind_state_.get() == NULL; }
69 
70   // Returns the Callback into an uninitialized state.
71   void Reset();
72 
73  protected:
74   // In C++, it is safe to cast function pointers to function pointers of
75   // another type. It is not okay to use void*. We create a InvokeFuncStorage
76   // that that can store our function pointer, and then cast it back to
77   // the original type on usage.
78   using InvokeFuncStorage = void(*)();
79 
80   // Returns true if this callback equals |other|. |other| may be null.
81   bool Equals(const CallbackBase& other) const;
82 
83   // Allow initializing of |bind_state_| via the constructor to avoid default
84   // initialization of the scoped_refptr.  We do not also initialize
85   // |polymorphic_invoke_| here because doing a normal assignment in the
86   // derived Callback templates makes for much nicer compiler errors.
87   explicit CallbackBase(BindStateBase* bind_state);
88 
89   // Force the destructor to be instantiated inside this translation unit so
90   // that our subclasses will not get inlined versions.  Avoids more template
91   // bloat.
92   ~CallbackBase();
93 
94   scoped_refptr<BindStateBase> bind_state_;
95   InvokeFuncStorage polymorphic_invoke_;
96 };
97 
98 // A helper template to determine if given type is non-const move-only-type,
99 // i.e. if a value of the given type should be passed via std::move() in a
100 // destructive way. Types are considered to be move-only if they have a
101 // sentinel MoveOnlyTypeForCPP03 member: a class typically gets this from using
102 // the DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN_WITH_MOVE_FOR_BIND macro.
103 // It would be easy to generalize this trait to all move-only types... but this
104 // confuses template deduction in VS2013 with certain types such as
105 // std::unique_ptr.
106 // TODO(dcheng): Revisit this when Windows switches to VS2015 by default.
107 template <typename T> struct IsMoveOnlyType {
108   template <typename U>
109   static YesType Test(const typename U::MoveOnlyTypeForCPP03*);
110 
111   template <typename U>
112   static NoType Test(...);
113 
114   static const bool value = sizeof((Test<T>(0))) == sizeof(YesType) &&
115                             !is_const<T>::value;
116 };
117 
118 // Specialization of IsMoveOnlyType so that std::unique_ptr is still considered
119 // move-only, even without the sentinel member.
120 template <typename T>
121 struct IsMoveOnlyType<std::unique_ptr<T>> : std::true_type {};
122 
123 template <typename>
124 struct CallbackParamTraitsForMoveOnlyType;
125 
126 template <typename>
127 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType;
128 
129 // TODO(tzik): Use a default parameter once MSVS supports variadic templates
130 // with default values.
131 // http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedbackdetail/view/957801/compilation-error-with-variadic-templates
132 //
133 // This is a typetraits object that's used to take an argument type, and
134 // extract a suitable type for storing and forwarding arguments.
135 //
136 // In particular, it strips off references, and converts arrays to
137 // pointers for storage; and it avoids accidentally trying to create a
138 // "reference of a reference" if the argument is a reference type.
139 //
140 // This array type becomes an issue for storage because we are passing bound
141 // parameters by const reference. In this case, we end up passing an actual
142 // array type in the initializer list which C++ does not allow.  This will
143 // break passing of C-string literals.
144 template <typename T>
145 struct CallbackParamTraits
146     : std::conditional<IsMoveOnlyType<T>::value,
147          CallbackParamTraitsForMoveOnlyType<T>,
148          CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType<T>>::type {
149 };
150 
151 template <typename T>
152 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType {
153   using ForwardType = const T&;
154   using StorageType = T;
155 };
156 
157 // The Storage should almost be impossible to trigger unless someone manually
158 // specifies type of the bind parameters.  However, in case they do,
159 // this will guard against us accidentally storing a reference parameter.
160 //
161 // The ForwardType should only be used for unbound arguments.
162 template <typename T>
163 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType<T&> {
164   using ForwardType = T&;
165   using StorageType = T;
166 };
167 
168 // Note that for array types, we implicitly add a const in the conversion. This
169 // means that it is not possible to bind array arguments to functions that take
170 // a non-const pointer. Trying to specialize the template based on a "const
171 // T[n]" does not seem to match correctly, so we are stuck with this
172 // restriction.
173 template <typename T, size_t n>
174 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType<T[n]> {
175   using ForwardType = const T*;
176   using StorageType = const T*;
177 };
178 
179 // See comment for CallbackParamTraits<T[n]>.
180 template <typename T>
181 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType<T[]> {
182   using ForwardType = const T*;
183   using StorageType = const T*;
184 };
185 
186 // Parameter traits for movable-but-not-copyable scopers.
187 //
188 // Callback<>/Bind() understands movable-but-not-copyable semantics where
189 // the type cannot be copied but can still have its state destructively
190 // transferred (aka. moved) to another instance of the same type by calling a
191 // helper function.  When used with Bind(), this signifies transferal of the
192 // object's state to the target function.
193 //
194 // For these types, the ForwardType must not be a const reference, or a
195 // reference.  A const reference is inappropriate, and would break const
196 // correctness, because we are implementing a destructive move.  A non-const
197 // reference cannot be used with temporaries which means the result of a
198 // function or a cast would not be usable with Callback<> or Bind().
199 template <typename T>
200 struct CallbackParamTraitsForMoveOnlyType {
201   using ForwardType = T;
202   using StorageType = T;
203 };
204 
205 // CallbackForward() is a very limited simulation of C++11's std::forward()
206 // used by the Callback/Bind system for a set of movable-but-not-copyable
207 // types.  It is needed because forwarding a movable-but-not-copyable
208 // argument to another function requires us to invoke the proper move
209 // operator to create a rvalue version of the type.  The supported types are
210 // whitelisted below as overloads of the CallbackForward() function. The
211 // default template compiles out to be a no-op.
212 //
213 // In C++11, std::forward would replace all uses of this function.  However, it
214 // is impossible to implement a general std::forward without C++11 due to a lack
215 // of rvalue references.
216 //
217 // In addition to Callback/Bind, this is used by PostTaskAndReplyWithResult to
218 // simulate std::forward() and forward the result of one Callback as a
219 // parameter to another callback. This is to support Callbacks that return
220 // the movable-but-not-copyable types whitelisted above.
221 template <typename T>
222 typename std::enable_if<!IsMoveOnlyType<T>::value, T>::type& CallbackForward(
223     T& t) {
224   return t;
225 }
226 
227 template <typename T>
228 typename std::enable_if<IsMoveOnlyType<T>::value, T>::type CallbackForward(
229     T& t) {
230   return std::move(t);
231 }
232 
233 }  // namespace internal
234 }  // namespace base
235 
236 #endif  // BASE_CALLBACK_INTERNAL_H_
237