[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 77835] [GObject bindings] Missing scope annotations for add/remove_event_listener

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77835


C Anthony <anthony at xtfx.me> changed:

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--- Comment #24 from C Anthony <anthony at xtfx.me>  2012-03-09 00:46:16 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=131002)
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Implements EventListeners by leveraging existing CodeGenerator

^^^^^ by "soon" i meant 3 weeks of "carefully crafting with love [and tears]".

(apologies if somewhat terse ... 2am, want slee... will elaborate as needed later)

this patch implements WebKitEventListener via the existing GObjectCodeGenerator; with the exception of one small tweak to generate the correct signature for `handleEvent` no other changes to the generator were required (others were made for unrelated reasons, however).

patch is complete, save:

) changing the comments as needed
) making the test cases work instead of commenting them out

patch still against 1.6.3 because i've been in a tight feedback loop, and my ccache is blisteringly hot. if it won't apply let me know, i will pull ... (any method to avoid 1GiB+ download??)

side note: there are continuous leaks when using *any* _create() method (any method annotated with `ReturnsNew` in the IDL files).  these functions must be marked `(transfer full)` otherwise they get an extra ref and live forever.  The WebKitEventListener will handle this properly.

DOM spec doesn't allow listeners to be enumerated -- so for example, in JS, if you do something like this:

window.addEventListener('click', function(){console.log("whoopsie daisy")}, false)

... you get in a situation where the browser own the only ref, and there is *no way* to stop it.  while the same can happen with GObject, i took a slightly different "lazy unbind" approach -- if the GObject half is destroyed (from python, unref(), etc) *without* properly removing itself from bound EventTargets, the WebCore half will "silently" (CRIT warn) drop incoming events and remove itself from each EventTarget as they come.  best case, they all fire, and the WebCore half is properly destroyed.  worst case, uhm, idk, it gets destroyed maybe when the DOM gets released? beats me :-) better than nothing.

i implemented this several different ways on my quest for supreme understanding. at one point i was using a single array of GValues -- it worked well -- they know how to destroy their boxed objects additionally create clean separation from C++ objects.  i borrowed some 3 line static functions from Telepathy to allocate GValues for the array ... i'm rambling now, but if there were any more than two GObjects, a hashmap (datalist?) keyed on the address might worthwhile, but since its only `m_listener` and `m_handler` ... meh.

^^^^^ i went that path trying to support GCallback and GClosure in a stupidly generic and "optimized" way.  if not obvious from the patch, API supports GClosure only (for good reason IMO).

thanks guys! look forward to review.

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