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 #ifndef BASE_OBSERVER_LIST_THREADSAFE_H_
6 #define BASE_OBSERVER_LIST_THREADSAFE_H_
11 #include "base/basictypes.h"
12 #include "base/bind.h"
13 #include "base/location.h"
14 #include "base/logging.h"
15 #include "base/memory/ref_counted.h"
16 #include "base/message_loop/message_loop.h"
17 #include "base/message_loop/message_loop_proxy.h"
18 #include "base/observer_list.h"
19 #include "base/stl_util.h"
20 #include "base/threading/platform_thread.h"
22 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
26 // A thread-safe container for a list of observers.
27 // This is similar to the observer_list (see observer_list.h), but it
28 // is more robust for multi-threaded situations.
30 // The following use cases are supported:
31 // * Observers can register for notifications from any thread.
32 // Callbacks to the observer will occur on the same thread where
33 // the observer initially called AddObserver() from.
34 // * Any thread may trigger a notification via Notify().
35 // * Observers can remove themselves from the observer list inside
37 // * If one thread is notifying observers concurrently with an observer
38 // removing itself from the observer list, the notifications will
39 // be silently dropped.
41 // The drawback of the threadsafe observer list is that notifications
42 // are not as real-time as the non-threadsafe version of this class.
43 // Notifications will always be done via PostTask() to another thread,
44 // whereas with the non-thread-safe observer_list, notifications happen
45 // synchronously and immediately.
47 // IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
48 // The ObserverListThreadSafe maintains an ObserverList for each thread
49 // which uses the ThreadSafeObserver. When Notifying the observers,
50 // we simply call PostTask to each registered thread, and then each thread
51 // will notify its regular ObserverList.
53 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
55 // Forward declaration for ObserverListThreadSafeTraits.
56 template <class ObserverType
>
57 class ObserverListThreadSafe
;
59 // An UnboundMethod is a wrapper for a method where the actual object is
60 // provided at Run dispatch time.
61 template <class T
, class Method
, class Params
>
64 UnboundMethod(Method m
, const Params
& p
) : m_(m
), p_(p
) {
66 (base::internal::ParamsUseScopedRefptrCorrectly
<Params
>::value
),
67 badunboundmethodparams
);
69 void Run(T
* obj
) const {
70 DispatchToMethod(obj
, m_
, p_
);
77 // This class is used to work around VS2005 not accepting:
80 // base::RefCountedThreadSafe<ObserverListThreadSafe<ObserverType> >;
82 // Instead of friending the class, we could friend the actual function
83 // which calls delete. However, this ends up being
84 // RefCountedThreadSafe::DeleteInternal(), which is private. So we
85 // define our own templated traits class so we can friend it.
87 struct ObserverListThreadSafeTraits
{
88 static void Destruct(const ObserverListThreadSafe
<T
>* x
) {
93 template <class ObserverType
>
94 class ObserverListThreadSafe
95 : public base::RefCountedThreadSafe
<
96 ObserverListThreadSafe
<ObserverType
>,
97 ObserverListThreadSafeTraits
<ObserverType
> > {
99 typedef typename ObserverList
<ObserverType
>::NotificationType
102 ObserverListThreadSafe()
103 : type_(ObserverListBase
<ObserverType
>::NOTIFY_ALL
) {}
104 explicit ObserverListThreadSafe(NotificationType type
) : type_(type
) {}
106 // Add an observer to the list. An observer should not be added to
107 // the same list more than once.
108 void AddObserver(ObserverType
* obs
) {
109 // If there is not a current MessageLoop, it is impossible to notify on it,
110 // so do not add the observer.
111 if (!base::MessageLoop::current())
114 ObserverList
<ObserverType
>* list
= NULL
;
115 base::PlatformThreadId thread_id
= base::PlatformThread::CurrentId();
117 base::AutoLock
lock(list_lock_
);
118 if (observer_lists_
.find(thread_id
) == observer_lists_
.end())
119 observer_lists_
[thread_id
] = new ObserverListContext(type_
);
120 list
= &(observer_lists_
[thread_id
]->list
);
122 list
->AddObserver(obs
);
125 // Remove an observer from the list if it is in the list.
126 // If there are pending notifications in-transit to the observer, they will
128 // If the observer to be removed is in the list, RemoveObserver MUST
129 // be called from the same thread which called AddObserver.
130 void RemoveObserver(ObserverType
* obs
) {
131 ObserverListContext
* context
= NULL
;
132 ObserverList
<ObserverType
>* list
= NULL
;
133 base::PlatformThreadId thread_id
= base::PlatformThread::CurrentId();
135 base::AutoLock
lock(list_lock_
);
136 typename
ObserversListMap::iterator it
= observer_lists_
.find(thread_id
);
137 if (it
== observer_lists_
.end()) {
138 // This will happen if we try to remove an observer on a thread
139 // we never added an observer for.
142 context
= it
->second
;
143 list
= &context
->list
;
145 // If we're about to remove the last observer from the list,
146 // then we can remove this observer_list entirely.
147 if (list
->HasObserver(obs
) && list
->size() == 1)
148 observer_lists_
.erase(it
);
150 list
->RemoveObserver(obs
);
152 // If RemoveObserver is called from a notification, the size will be
153 // nonzero. Instead of deleting here, the NotifyWrapper will delete
154 // when it finishes iterating.
155 if (list
->size() == 0)
159 // Verifies that the list is currently empty (i.e. there are no observers).
160 void AssertEmpty() const {
161 base::AutoLock
lock(list_lock_
);
162 DCHECK(observer_lists_
.empty());
166 // Make a thread-safe callback to each Observer in the list.
167 // Note, these calls are effectively asynchronous. You cannot assume
168 // that at the completion of the Notify call that all Observers have
169 // been Notified. The notification may still be pending delivery.
170 template <class Method
, class... Params
>
171 void Notify(Method m
, const Params
&... params
) {
172 UnboundMethod
<ObserverType
, Method
, Tuple
<Params
...>> method(
173 m
, MakeTuple(params
...));
175 base::AutoLock
lock(list_lock_
);
176 for (const auto& entry
: observer_lists_
) {
177 ObserverListContext
* context
= entry
.second
;
178 context
->loop
->PostTask(
181 &ObserverListThreadSafe
<ObserverType
>::template NotifyWrapper
<
182 Method
, Tuple
<Params
...>>,
183 this, context
, method
));
188 // See comment above ObserverListThreadSafeTraits' definition.
189 friend struct ObserverListThreadSafeTraits
<ObserverType
>;
191 struct ObserverListContext
{
192 explicit ObserverListContext(NotificationType type
)
193 : loop(base::MessageLoopProxy::current()),
197 scoped_refptr
<base::MessageLoopProxy
> loop
;
198 ObserverList
<ObserverType
> list
;
200 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ObserverListContext
);
203 ~ObserverListThreadSafe() {
204 STLDeleteValues(&observer_lists_
);
207 // Wrapper which is called to fire the notifications for each thread's
208 // ObserverList. This function MUST be called on the thread which owns
209 // the unsafe ObserverList.
210 template <class Method
, class Params
>
211 void NotifyWrapper(ObserverListContext
* context
,
212 const UnboundMethod
<ObserverType
, Method
, Params
>& method
) {
214 // Check that this list still needs notifications.
216 base::AutoLock
lock(list_lock_
);
217 typename
ObserversListMap::iterator it
=
218 observer_lists_
.find(base::PlatformThread::CurrentId());
220 // The ObserverList could have been removed already. In fact, it could
221 // have been removed and then re-added! If the master list's loop
222 // does not match this one, then we do not need to finish this
224 if (it
== observer_lists_
.end() || it
->second
!= context
)
229 typename ObserverList
<ObserverType
>::Iterator
it(context
->list
);
231 while ((obs
= it
.GetNext()) != NULL
)
235 // If there are no more observers on the list, we can now delete it.
236 if (context
->list
.size() == 0) {
238 base::AutoLock
lock(list_lock_
);
239 // Remove |list| if it's not already removed.
240 // This can happen if multiple observers got removed in a notification.
241 // See http://crbug.com/55725.
242 typename
ObserversListMap::iterator it
=
243 observer_lists_
.find(base::PlatformThread::CurrentId());
244 if (it
!= observer_lists_
.end() && it
->second
== context
)
245 observer_lists_
.erase(it
);
251 // Key by PlatformThreadId because in tests, clients can attempt to remove
252 // observers without a MessageLoop. If this were keyed by MessageLoop, that
253 // operation would be silently ignored, leaving garbage in the ObserverList.
254 typedef std::map
<base::PlatformThreadId
, ObserverListContext
*>
257 mutable base::Lock list_lock_
; // Protects the observer_lists_.
258 ObserversListMap observer_lists_
;
259 const NotificationType type_
;
261 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ObserverListThreadSafe
);
264 #endif // BASE_OBSERVER_LIST_THREADSAFE_H_