Bug 231956 – WebKit Objective-C classes should use weak delegates

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKit2

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

WebKit Objective-C classes should use weak delegates.

Found by doing a search for delegate properties using `assign` in WebKit:

    $ find Source/WebKit -name \*.h -exec grep -l 'assign.*delegate' {} \;

Note that 3 out of the 4 fixes are just documenting that the `_delegate` instance variable is already held using WeakObjCPtr<>.

The fourth change actually makes the `delegate` property weak.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/84416233>

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 441730 [details]
Patch v1

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 441753 [details]
Patch v2 (fix typo in title)

[Brent Fulgham]

Comment on attachment 441753 [details]
Patch v2 (fix typo in title)

r=me

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Comment on attachment 441753 [details]
Patch v2 (fix typo in title)

Marking cq+ because I'm not sure if the ios bot will ever "fail" to allow a retry, and the ios-wk2 and api-ios bots are 8-24 hours behind.

In the "worst case", this patch would change a flakey crashing test to a flakey failing test, so only test expectations would need to be updated (and maybe a new bug filed for the non-crashing flakiness).

[EWS]

Committed r284558 (243300@main): <https://commits.webkit.org/243300@main>

All reviewed patches have been landed. Closing bug and clearing flags on attachment 441753 [details].