[webkit-efl] Common ref and unref functions for EFL WK2 objects

[Pozdnyakov, Mikhail]

Hi Kangil,

FOA thanks for your response!

I'd like to have basically the same as WKRetain() and  WKRelease() from
Source/WebKit2/Shared/API/c/WKType.h.

Off course making it for EFL WK2 will bring some particularities,
I'm going to provide patch for https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100751
so the idea becomes more tangible. 

BR,
Mikhail

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From: Kangil Han [kangil.han at samsung.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:00 PM
To: Pozdnyakov, Mikhail; webkit-efl at lists.webkit.org
Subject: RE: [webkit-efl] Common ref and unref functions for EFL WK2 objects

Hi Mikhail,

> BTW, WK2 C API has geneiric ref/unfer functions and GTK also does.
Would you please let us know more specific information on this, i.e. wiki
url or something that help our understanding?

Kind regards,
Kangil Han

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[mailto:webkit-efl-bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Pozdnyakov,
Mikhail
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:05 PM
To: webkit-efl at lists.webkit.org
Subject: [webkit-efl] Common ref and unref functions for EFL WK2 objects

Hi,

I've already mentioned the proposal at
http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-efl/2012-October/000393.html

but think (and since nobody replied so far) it deserves new topic and new
thread, so duplicating proposal again here.

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  might be declared for instance as

typedef Ewk_Ref_Counted Ewk_Back_Forward_List_Item;

so that it's clear that Ewk_Back_Forward_List_Item is ref-countable
(or we could just mention in docs that given object is ref counted).

Would like to hear your opinion about this proposal.

BTW, WK2 C API has geneiric ref/unfer functions and GTK also does.

BR,
Mikhail
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