[webkit-dev] ResourceHandle and the Frame parameter

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Jun 12, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

>
> On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Darin Adler wrote:
>
>> I think we'll have to rethink this. ResourceHandle is intended to  
>> be a low level networking layer, and so it doesn't make sense to  
>> have higher level concepts like a Frame*, but clearly we'll need  
>> to make a design change so there's a higher level that's easy to  
>> plug in to.
>>
>> Or we can just give up on the notion of ResourceHandle as a low  
>> level networking abstraction.
>
> As Darin says, the intent is that ResourceLoader is the layer that  
> knows about high-level networking stuff in the engine,  
> ResourceHandle is supposed to be low-level and ignorant of the  
> higher-level loading code. In my opinion, the right way to put in  
> hooks that depend on the loading context would be to add  
> appropriate ResourceHandleClient methods.

Now that I think about it, I guess that won't do much to help you add  
port-specific hooks - although the ResourceHandleClient (normally a  
ResourceLoader) could call up to a platform-specific WebKit layer via  
FrameLoaderClient. It's hard to tell what the best model is without  
more details about why the low-level networking code in question  
needs access to the high-level objects.

Regards,
Maciej