Bug 34705 – [BREWMP] Add a function to create a BREW instance without local variable declarations.

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Web Template Framework

[Kwang Yul Seo]

It is too verbose to create a BREW instance. For example, to create a IFileMgr instance, it takes three lines:

IFileMgr* fileMgr;
IShell* shell = reinterpret_cast<AEEApplet*>(GETAPPINSTANCE())->m_pIShell;
ISHELL_CreateInstance(shell, AEECLSID_FILEMGR, reinterpret_cast<void**>(&fileMgr));

This pattern is repeated all over the code, so we need a shortcut here. Add a template function to create a BREW instance in one line.

IFileMgr* fileMgr = createInstanceBrew<IFileMgr>(AEECLSID_FILEMGR);


This can be nicely combined with OwnPtrBrew.

OwnPtrBrew<IFileMgr> fileMgr(createInstanceBrew<IFileMgr>(AEECLSID_FILEMGR));

[Kwang Yul Seo]

Created attachment 48333 [details]
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ShellUtilBrew.h is currently under wtf/brew, but I am not sure if this is the right place to put platform-specific utility functions.

[Darin Adler]

(In reply to comment #1)
> ShellUtilBrew.h is currently under wtf/brew, but I am not sure if this is the
> right place to put platform-specific utility functions.

It’s the right directory for low-level functions of this type. But “utility” is not a word we ever use, and we certainly frown on “Util” in a file name.

[Kwang Yul Seo]

Created attachment 48338 [details]
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Remove Util from the filename and prefix the function with shell

createInstanceBrew -> shellCreateInstanceBrew

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Should this return a PassOwnPtrBrew?

[Kwang Yul Seo]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Should this return a PassOwnPtrBrew?

These is no PassOwnPtrBrew class. I just wanted to simplify the creation of a BREW instance. As OwnPtrBrew takes a raw pointer in the constructor, we can use an idiom like the following:

OwnPtrBrew<IFileMgr> fileMgr(createInstanceBrew<IFileMgr>(AEECLSID_FILEMGR));

Do you suggest that this should return a PassOwnPtrBrew?

[Adam Barth]

> Do you suggest that this should return a PassOwnPtrBrew?

In general, createMumble methods return a PassFooBar object to ensure we don't leak the allocated memory.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Comment on attachment 48338 [details]
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Why would this be part of WTF?  This seems like port-specific goop.

We don't need to have PassOwnPtrBrew to approve this, but eventually it would be nice to have such a class to make leaking memory returned from this function impossible.

[Kwang Yul Seo]

Created attachment 50169 [details]
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Make the function return PassOwnPtr. This prevents memory leaking.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Comment on attachment 50169 [details]
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LGTM.

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 50169 [details]
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Clearing flags on attachment: 50169

Committed r56031: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/56031>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.