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.
5 // This file contains utility functions and classes that help the
6 // implementation, and management of the Callback objects.
8 #ifndef BASE_CALLBACK_INTERNAL_H_
9 #define BASE_CALLBACK_INTERNAL_H_
13 #include "base/base_export.h"
14 #include "base/memory/ref_counted.h"
15 #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
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
29 class BindStateBase
: public RefCountedThreadSafe
<BindStateBase
> {
31 friend class RefCountedThreadSafe
<BindStateBase
>;
32 virtual ~BindStateBase() {}
35 // Holds the Callback methods that don't require specialization to reduce
37 class BASE_EXPORT CallbackBase
{
39 CallbackBase(const CallbackBase
& c
);
40 CallbackBase
& operator=(const CallbackBase
& c
);
42 // Returns true if Callback is null (doesn't refer to anything).
43 bool is_null() const { return bind_state_
.get() == NULL
; }
45 // Returns the Callback into an uninitialized state.
49 // In C++, it is safe to cast function pointers to function pointers of
50 // another type. It is not okay to use void*. We create a InvokeFuncStorage
51 // that that can store our function pointer, and then cast it back to
52 // the original type on usage.
53 typedef void(*InvokeFuncStorage
)(void);
55 // Returns true if this callback equals |other|. |other| may be null.
56 bool Equals(const CallbackBase
& other
) const;
58 // Allow initializing of |bind_state_| via the constructor to avoid default
59 // initialization of the scoped_refptr. We do not also initialize
60 // |polymorphic_invoke_| here because doing a normal assignment in the
61 // derived Callback templates makes for much nicer compiler errors.
62 explicit CallbackBase(BindStateBase
* bind_state
);
64 // Force the destructor to be instantiated inside this translation unit so
65 // that our subclasses will not get inlined versions. Avoids more template
69 scoped_refptr
<BindStateBase
> bind_state_
;
70 InvokeFuncStorage polymorphic_invoke_
;
73 // A helper template to determine if given type is non-const move-only-type,
74 // i.e. if a value of the given type should be passed via .Pass() in a
76 template <typename T
> struct IsMoveOnlyType
{
78 static YesType
Test(const typename
U::MoveOnlyTypeForCPP03
*);
81 static NoType
Test(...);
83 static const bool value
= sizeof((Test
<T
>(0))) == sizeof(YesType
) &&
87 // Returns |Then| as SelectType::Type if |condition| is true. Otherwise returns
89 template <bool condition
, typename Then
, typename Else
>
94 template <typename Then
, typename Else
>
95 struct SelectType
<false, Then
, Else
> {
100 struct CallbackParamTraitsForMoveOnlyType
;
103 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType
;
105 // TODO(tzik): Use a default parameter once MSVS supports variadic templates
106 // with default values.
107 // http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedbackdetail/view/957801/compilation-error-with-variadic-templates
109 // This is a typetraits object that's used to take an argument type, and
110 // extract a suitable type for storing and forwarding arguments.
112 // In particular, it strips off references, and converts arrays to
113 // pointers for storage; and it avoids accidentally trying to create a
114 // "reference of a reference" if the argument is a reference type.
116 // This array type becomes an issue for storage because we are passing bound
117 // parameters by const reference. In this case, we end up passing an actual
118 // array type in the initializer list which C++ does not allow. This will
119 // break passing of C-string literals.
120 template <typename T
>
121 struct CallbackParamTraits
122 : SelectType
<IsMoveOnlyType
<T
>::value
,
123 CallbackParamTraitsForMoveOnlyType
<T
>,
124 CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType
<T
> >::Type
{
127 template <typename T
>
128 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType
{
129 typedef const T
& ForwardType
;
130 typedef T StorageType
;
133 // The Storage should almost be impossible to trigger unless someone manually
134 // specifies type of the bind parameters. However, in case they do,
135 // this will guard against us accidentally storing a reference parameter.
137 // The ForwardType should only be used for unbound arguments.
138 template <typename T
>
139 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType
<T
&> {
140 typedef T
& ForwardType
;
141 typedef T StorageType
;
144 // Note that for array types, we implicitly add a const in the conversion. This
145 // means that it is not possible to bind array arguments to functions that take
146 // a non-const pointer. Trying to specialize the template based on a "const
147 // T[n]" does not seem to match correctly, so we are stuck with this
149 template <typename T
, size_t n
>
150 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType
<T
[n
]> {
151 typedef const T
* ForwardType
;
152 typedef const T
* StorageType
;
155 // See comment for CallbackParamTraits<T[n]>.
156 template <typename T
>
157 struct CallbackParamTraitsForNonMoveOnlyType
<T
[]> {
158 typedef const T
* ForwardType
;
159 typedef const T
* StorageType
;
162 // Parameter traits for movable-but-not-copyable scopers.
164 // Callback<>/Bind() understands movable-but-not-copyable semantics where
165 // the type cannot be copied but can still have its state destructively
166 // transferred (aka. moved) to another instance of the same type by calling a
167 // helper function. When used with Bind(), this signifies transferal of the
168 // object's state to the target function.
170 // For these types, the ForwardType must not be a const reference, or a
171 // reference. A const reference is inappropriate, and would break const
172 // correctness, because we are implementing a destructive move. A non-const
173 // reference cannot be used with temporaries which means the result of a
174 // function or a cast would not be usable with Callback<> or Bind().
175 template <typename T
>
176 struct CallbackParamTraitsForMoveOnlyType
{
177 typedef T ForwardType
;
178 typedef T StorageType
;
181 // CallbackForward() is a very limited simulation of C++11's std::forward()
182 // used by the Callback/Bind system for a set of movable-but-not-copyable
183 // types. It is needed because forwarding a movable-but-not-copyable
184 // argument to another function requires us to invoke the proper move
185 // operator to create a rvalue version of the type. The supported types are
186 // whitelisted below as overloads of the CallbackForward() function. The
187 // default template compiles out to be a no-op.
189 // In C++11, std::forward would replace all uses of this function. However, it
190 // is impossible to implement a general std::forward with C++11 due to a lack
191 // of rvalue references.
193 // In addition to Callback/Bind, this is used by PostTaskAndReplyWithResult to
194 // simulate std::forward() and forward the result of one Callback as a
195 // parameter to another callback. This is to support Callbacks that return
196 // the movable-but-not-copyable types whitelisted above.
197 template <typename T
>
198 typename enable_if
<!IsMoveOnlyType
<T
>::value
, T
>::type
& CallbackForward(T
& t
) {
202 template <typename T
>
203 typename enable_if
<IsMoveOnlyType
<T
>::value
, T
>::type
CallbackForward(T
& t
) {
207 } // namespace internal
210 #endif // BASE_CALLBACK_INTERNAL_H_