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Unified Diff: ppapi/cpp/file_io.h

Issue 10993031: Refactor the URLResponseInfo to use new design (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src
Patch Set: revert shim Created 8 years, 2 months ago
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Index: ppapi/cpp/file_io.h
diff --git a/ppapi/cpp/file_io.h b/ppapi/cpp/file_io.h
index 0d8dcc910bbd8794be04016e81a40878ebbd3af3..f3f50adab5444570c3fb565b4385d8deffb740e1 100644
--- a/ppapi/cpp/file_io.h
+++ b/ppapi/cpp/file_io.h
@@ -45,8 +45,17 @@ class FileIO : public Resource {
///
/// @param[in] file_ref A <code>PP_Resource</code> corresponding to a file
/// reference.
+ ///
/// @param[in] open_flags A bit-mask of the <code>PP_FileOpenFlags</code>
- /// values.
+ /// values. Valid values are:
+ /// - PP_FILEOPENFLAG_READ
+ /// - PP_FILEOPENFLAG_WRITE
+ /// - PP_FILEOPENFLAG_CREATE
+ /// - PP_FILEOPENFLAG_TRUNCATE
+ /// - PP_FILEOPENFLAG_EXCLUSIVE
+ /// See <code>PP_FileOpenFlags</code> in <code>ppb_file_io.h</code> for more
+ /// details on these flags.
+ ///
/// @param[in] cc A <code>CompletionCallback</code> to be called upon
/// completion of Open().
///
@@ -83,9 +92,28 @@ class FileIO : public Resource {
PP_Time last_modified_time,
const CompletionCallback& cc);
- /// Read() reads from an offset in the file. The size of the buffer must be
- /// large enough to hold the specified number of bytes to read. This
- /// function might perform a partial read.
+ /// Reads from an offset in the file.
+ ///
+ /// The size of the buffer must be large enough to hold the specified number
+ /// of bytes to read. This function might perform a partial read, meaning
+ /// that all the requested bytes might not be returned, even if the end of the
+ /// file has not been reached.
+ ///
+ /// This function reads into a buffer that the caller supplies. This buffer
+ /// must remain valid as long as the FileIO resource is alive. If you use
+ /// a completion callback factory, it will not issue the callback on your
+ /// class if it goes out of scope, BUT the callback factory can NOT cancel
bbudge 2012/10/12 01:27:06 This sentance is hard to understand, as 'it' is am
+ /// the request from the browser's perspective. This means that the browser
+ /// will still try to write to your buffer even if the callback factory is
+ /// destroyed!
+ ///
+ /// So you must ensure that your buffer outlives the FileIO resource. If you
+ /// have one class and use the FileIO resource from that class and never make
+ /// any copies, this will be fine: the resource will be destroyed when your
+ /// class is. But keep in mind that copying a pp::FileIO object just
+ /// creates a second reference to the original resource and the resource
+ /// (and any pending Read calls) will still be pending. This creates the
+ /// possibility for writing into invalid memory.
bbudge 2012/10/12 01:27:06 I may lack some understanding here. I get how the
///
/// @param[in] offset The offset into the file.
/// @param[in] buffer The buffer to hold the specified number of bytes read.

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