[webkit-efl] Encapsulation of ref counting in EWK classes (WK2 EFL)

[Pozdnyakov, Mikhail]

Hi,

FOA, I'm glad  to say that there is no manual ref counting in WK2 EFL classes any more :)

This however also gives us another enhancement opportunity which I'd like to discuss now.

As all the ref-counting EWK classes are inherited from WTF::RefCounted
it is possible now to have generic REF/UNREF functions in the public API instead of 
having separate pair of such functions for every object.

To say in more details we could introduce 
struct Ewk_Ref_Counted Ewk_Ref_Counted;
and following generic functions:
EAPI Ewk_Ref_Counted*  ewk_ref(Ewk_Ref_Counted*);
EAPI  ewk_unref(Ewk_Ref_Counted*);

then Ewk_Back_Forward_List_Item for instance can be declared as

typedef Ewk_Ref_Counted Ewk_Back_Forward_List_Item;

so that it's clear that Ewk_Back_Forward_List_Item is ref-countable.

Would like to hear your opinion about this proposal.

BR,
Mikhail

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From: Pozdnyakov, Mikhail
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:48 PM
To: webkit-efl at lists.webkit.org
Subject: Encapsulation of ref counting in EWK classes (WK2 EFL)

Hi all,

The idea is that EWK internal structures (those which use ref counting) can be inherited from WTF::RefCounted class,
It gives following benefits:

1)      Ref counting code is encapsulated and not copy/pasted between EWK structures.

2)      It is possible to use internally RefPtr and PassRefPtr smart pointers which also saves a lot of lines of code

Here you can see an example http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/131298 of the described approach applied.

There is also a meta bug https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99321 for gradual refactoring of all of the EWK classes.
If someone is volunteering to modify  a certain EWK class accordingly to the described approach please
put your bug as a dependency for the meta bug.

BR,
Mikhail
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