[webkit-qt] WK2/QML handling of unresponsive/crashed web process

[Milian Wolff]

Hey guys,

have you any plans on handling the WKPageLoaderClient's 
processDidBecomeResponsive or processDidCrash callbacks?

I could imagine writing the code required to push these signals all the way up 
to QML similar to the other webview.experimental.* callbacks such as 
runJavaScriptAlert in QtWebPageUIClient.

The question is - how could I design the handler in a way that it would be 
accepted upstream? Especially I wonder whether it would be OK to push the PID 
or similar of the webprocess when it hangs, such that I could kill it from a 
C++ object exposed to QML.

Also, I'm not sure how to handle the case when the webprocess crashed. 
Restarting it shounds simple enough, but will it actually be simple to do? 
Especially updating any potential references to the web process might be error 
prone - or is it only stored centrally?

Generally, there is always only web process per webview - right? Or is there 
even just one per QML/WK2 app - i.e. do multiple webviews share the same 
webprocess?

Cheers
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Milian Wolff | milian.wolff at kdab.com | Software Engineer
KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH&Co KG, a KDAB Group company
Tel. Germany +49-30-521325470, Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090
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