Bug 35045 – Add a way for WebView and its dependencies to be selectively included in WebKitStatistics leak tracking

• Component: WebKit Misc.
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Timothy Hatcher]

We need to add a way for WebView and it's dependancies to be selectively included in WebKitStatistics leak tracking. Right now WebView's that live the whole life of the process mess up the tracking statistics.

[Timothy Hatcher]

<rdar://problem/7567677&7572900>

[Timothy Hatcher]

Created attachment 48914 [details]
Proposed Change

[Adam Roben (:aroben)]

Comment on attachment 48914 [details]
Proposed Change

This patch will make all WebViews not be included in WebKitStatistics by default. Is that really what we want? This will affect the behavior of all WebKit apps that use WebKitStatistics.

Maybe it would be better to have a way to exclude certain WebViews, rather than excluding them all by default?

[Timothy Hatcher]

WebKitStatistics is private, only Safari uses it.

[Adam Roben (:aroben)]

Comment on attachment 48914 [details]
Proposed Change

> ++ (BOOL)isIncludedInWebKitStatistics;

I think it would be better to name this +shouldIncludeInWebKitStatistics. But I'd only change this one method; everything else should keep using "is" (since the other methods/members really mean "have I added myself to the relevant WebKit statistic?").

Should it start with an underscore?

r=me

[Timothy Hatcher]

Landed in r54908.

[Darin Adler]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (From update of attachment 48914 [details])
> > ++ (BOOL)isIncludedInWebKitStatistics;
> 
> I think it would be better to name this +shouldIncludeInWebKitStatistics.

For boolean methods we normally make them fit a sentence, like this:

    "class <xxx>"

Using the word "class" since this is a class method. The sentence, "Class should include in WebKit statistics" isn't quite right, so maybe a name like shouldBeIncludedInWebKitStatistics would be more appropriate.