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shill_event.h

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+// Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#ifndef SHILL_EVENT_
+#define SHILL_EVENT_
+
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace shill {
+
+// This is a pure-virtual base class for callback objects which can be
+// queued up and called later.  The callback virtual method takes a single
+// argument, which will be handed to the dispatcher to call on all listeners.
+template <typename Arg>
+class Callback {
+ public:
+  virtual ~Callback() {}
+  virtual void Run(Arg arg) = 0;
+};
+
+// This is a callback subclass that contains an object and method to call.
+// These methods take a passed-in argument specific to the callback type.
+template <typename Class, typename Arg>
+class ClassCallback : public Callback<Arg> {
+ public:
+  typedef void (Class::*MethodType)(Arg arg);
+
+  ClassCallback(Class* object, MethodType method)
+    : object_(object), method_(method) {}
+  ~ClassCallback() {}
+
+  void Run(Arg arg) {
+    (object_->*method_)(arg);
+  }
+
+ private:
+  Class* object_;
+  MethodType method_;
+};
+
+// This is the event queue superclass, which contains a function for
+// dispatching all events in the queue to their respective listeners.
+// A common "AlertDispatcher()" function is used by subclasses to alert
+// the central dispatcher that events have been queued and a dispatch
+// should be performed soon.
+class EventDispatcher;
+class EventQueueItem {
+ public:
+  EventQueueItem(EventDispatcher *dispatcher);
+  ~EventQueueItem();
+  virtual void Dispatch() = 0;
+  void AlertDispatcher();
+ private:
+  EventDispatcher *dispatcher_;
+};
+
+// This is a template subclass of EventQueueItem which is specific to
+// a particular argument type.  This object contains a queue of events
+// waiting for delivery to liesteners, and a list of even callbacks --
+// the listeners for this event.
+template <typename Arg>
+class EventQueue : public EventQueueItem {
+  typedef Callback<Arg>CallbackType;
+
+ public:
+  explicit EventQueue(EventDispatcher *dispatcher)
+    : EventQueueItem(dispatcher) {}
+
+  inline void AddCallback(CallbackType *cb) {
+    callback_list_.push_back(cb);
+  }
+
+  void RemoveCallback(CallbackType *cb) {
+    for (size_t event_idx = 0; event_idx < callback_list_.size(); ++event_idx) {
+      if (callback_list_[event_idx] == cb) {
+        callback_list_.erase(callback_list_.begin() + event_idx);
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  void Dispatch() {
+    for (size_t event_idx = 0; event_idx < event_queue_.size(); ++event_idx)
+      for (size_t call_idx = 0; call_idx < callback_list_.size(); ++call_idx)
+        callback_list_[call_idx]->Run(event_queue_[event_idx]);
+    event_queue_.clear();
+  }
+
+  void AddEvent(Arg arg) {
+    event_queue_.push_back(arg);
+    AlertDispatcher();
+  }
+
+ private:
+  std::vector<CallbackType *> callback_list_;
+  std::vector<Arg> event_queue_;
+};
+
+// This is the main event dispatcher.  It contains a central instance, and
+// is the entity responsible for dispatching events out of all queues to
+// their listeners during the idle loop.
+class EventDispatcher {
+ public:
+  void DispatchEvents();
+  void ExecuteOnIdle();
+  void RegisterCallbackQueue(EventQueueItem *queue);
+  void UnregisterCallbackQueue(EventQueueItem *queue);
+ private:
+  std::vector<EventQueueItem*> queue_list_;
+};
+
+}  // namespace shill
+
+#endif  // SHILL_EVENT_