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.h"
17 #include "base/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
>
171 void Notify(Method m
) {
172 UnboundMethod
<ObserverType
, Method
, Tuple0
> method(m
, MakeTuple());
173 Notify
<Method
, Tuple0
>(method
);
176 template <class Method
, class A
>
177 void Notify(Method m
, const A
& a
) {
178 UnboundMethod
<ObserverType
, Method
, Tuple1
<A
> > method(m
, MakeTuple(a
));
179 Notify
<Method
, Tuple1
<A
> >(method
);
182 template <class Method
, class A
, class B
>
183 void Notify(Method m
, const A
& a
, const B
& b
) {
184 UnboundMethod
<ObserverType
, Method
, Tuple2
<A
, B
> > method(
186 Notify
<Method
, Tuple2
<A
, B
> >(method
);
189 template <class Method
, class A
, class B
, class C
>
190 void Notify(Method m
, const A
& a
, const B
& b
, const C
& c
) {
191 UnboundMethod
<ObserverType
, Method
, Tuple3
<A
, B
, C
> > method(
192 m
, MakeTuple(a
, b
, c
));
193 Notify
<Method
, Tuple3
<A
, B
, C
> >(method
);
196 template <class Method
, class A
, class B
, class C
, class D
>
197 void Notify(Method m
, const A
& a
, const B
& b
, const C
& c
, const D
& d
) {
198 UnboundMethod
<ObserverType
, Method
, Tuple4
<A
, B
, C
, D
> > method(
199 m
, MakeTuple(a
, b
, c
, d
));
200 Notify
<Method
, Tuple4
<A
, B
, C
, D
> >(method
);
203 // TODO(mbelshe): Add more wrappers for Notify() with more arguments.
206 // See comment above ObserverListThreadSafeTraits' definition.
207 friend struct ObserverListThreadSafeTraits
<ObserverType
>;
209 struct ObserverListContext
{
210 explicit ObserverListContext(NotificationType type
)
211 : loop(base::MessageLoopProxy::current()),
215 scoped_refptr
<base::MessageLoopProxy
> loop
;
216 ObserverList
<ObserverType
> list
;
218 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ObserverListContext
);
221 ~ObserverListThreadSafe() {
222 STLDeleteValues(&observer_lists_
);
225 template <class Method
, class Params
>
226 void Notify(const UnboundMethod
<ObserverType
, Method
, Params
>& method
) {
227 base::AutoLock
lock(list_lock_
);
228 typename
ObserversListMap::iterator it
;
229 for (it
= observer_lists_
.begin(); it
!= observer_lists_
.end(); ++it
) {
230 ObserverListContext
* context
= (*it
).second
;
231 context
->loop
->PostTask(
233 base::Bind(&ObserverListThreadSafe
<ObserverType
>::
234 template NotifyWrapper
<Method
, Params
>, this, context
, method
));
238 // Wrapper which is called to fire the notifications for each thread's
239 // ObserverList. This function MUST be called on the thread which owns
240 // the unsafe ObserverList.
241 template <class Method
, class Params
>
242 void NotifyWrapper(ObserverListContext
* context
,
243 const UnboundMethod
<ObserverType
, Method
, Params
>& method
) {
245 // Check that this list still needs notifications.
247 base::AutoLock
lock(list_lock_
);
248 typename
ObserversListMap::iterator it
=
249 observer_lists_
.find(base::PlatformThread::CurrentId());
251 // The ObserverList could have been removed already. In fact, it could
252 // have been removed and then re-added! If the master list's loop
253 // does not match this one, then we do not need to finish this
255 if (it
== observer_lists_
.end() || it
->second
!= context
)
260 typename ObserverList
<ObserverType
>::Iterator
it(context
->list
);
262 while ((obs
= it
.GetNext()) != NULL
)
266 // If there are no more observers on the list, we can now delete it.
267 if (context
->list
.size() == 0) {
269 base::AutoLock
lock(list_lock_
);
270 // Remove |list| if it's not already removed.
271 // This can happen if multiple observers got removed in a notification.
272 // See http://crbug.com/55725.
273 typename
ObserversListMap::iterator it
=
274 observer_lists_
.find(base::PlatformThread::CurrentId());
275 if (it
!= observer_lists_
.end() && it
->second
== context
)
276 observer_lists_
.erase(it
);
282 // Key by PlatformThreadId because in tests, clients can attempt to remove
283 // observers without a MessageLoop. If this were keyed by MessageLoop, that
284 // operation would be silently ignored, leaving garbage in the ObserverList.
285 typedef std::map
<base::PlatformThreadId
, ObserverListContext
*>
288 mutable base::Lock list_lock_
; // Protects the observer_lists_.
289 ObserversListMap observer_lists_
;
290 const NotificationType type_
;
292 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ObserverListThreadSafe
);
295 #endif // BASE_OBSERVER_LIST_THREADSAFE_H_