Column balancing refactoring. Don't propagate data during layout.

third_party/WebKit/Source/core/layout/ColumnBalancer.h

Index: third_party/WebKit/Source/core/layout/ColumnBalancer.h
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+// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#include "core/layout/MultiColumnFragmentainerGroup.h"
+
+namespace blink {
+
+// A column balancer traverses the portion of the subtree of a flow thread that belongs to a given
+// fragmentainer group, in order to collect certain data to be used for column balancing. This is an
+// abstract class that just walks the subtree and leaves it to subclasses to actualy collect data.
+class ColumnBalancer {
+protected:
+    ColumnBalancer(const MultiColumnFragmentainerGroup&);
+
+    const MultiColumnFragmentainerGroup& group() const { return m_group; }
+
+    // Flow thread offset for the layout object that we're currently examining.
+    LayoutUnit flowThreadOffset() const { return m_flowThreadOffset; }
+
+    // Return true if the specified offset is at the top of a column, as long as it's not the first
+    // column in the multicol container.
+    bool isFirstAfterBreak(LayoutUnit flowThreadOffset) const
+    {
+        if (flowThreadOffset != m_group.columnLogicalTopForOffset(flowThreadOffset))
+            return false; // Not at the top of a column.
+        // The first column in the first group isn't after any break.
+        return flowThreadOffset > m_group.logicalTopInFlowThread() || !m_group.isFirstGroup();
+    }
+
+    // Examine and collect column balancing data from a layout box that has been found to intersect
+    // with this fragmentainer group. Does not recurse into children. flowThreadOffset() will
+    // return the offset from |box| to the flow thread. Two hooks are provided here. The first one
+    // is called right after entering and before traversing the subtree of the box, and the second
+    // one right after having traversed the subtree.
+    virtual void examineBoxAfterEntering(const LayoutBox&) = 0;
+    virtual void examineBoxBeforeLeaving(const LayoutBox&) = 0;
+
+    // Examine and collect column balancing data from a line that has been found to intersect with
+    // this fragmentainer group. Does not recurse into layout objects on that line.
+    virtual void examineLine(const RootInlineBox&) = 0;
+
+    // Examine and collect column balancing data for everything in the fragmentainer group. Will
+    // trigger calls to examineBoxAfterEntering(), examineBoxBeforeLeaving() and examineLine() for
+    // interesting boxes and lines.
+    void traverse();
+
+private:
+    void traverseSubtree(const LayoutBox&);
+
+    const MultiColumnFragmentainerGroup& m_group;
+    LayoutUnit m_flowThreadOffset;
+};
+
+// After an initial layout pass, we know the height of the contents of a flow thread. Based on
+// this, we can estimate an initial minimal column height. This class will collect the necessary
+// information from the layout objects to make this estimate. This estimate may be used to perform
+// another layout iteration. If we after such a layout iteration cannot fit the contents with the
+// given column height without creating overflowing columns, we will have to stretch the columns by
+// some amount and lay out again. We may need to do this several times (but typically not more
+// times than the number of columns that we have). The amount to stretch is provided by the sister
+// of this class, named MinimumSpaceShortageFinder.
+class InitialColumnHeightFinder final : public ColumnBalancer {
+public:
+    static LayoutUnit initialMinimalBalancedHeight(const MultiColumnFragmentainerGroup& group)
+    {
+        return InitialColumnHeightFinder(group).initialMinimalBalancedHeight();
+    }
+
+private:
+    InitialColumnHeightFinder(const MultiColumnFragmentainerGroup&);
+
+    LayoutUnit initialMinimalBalancedHeight() const;
+
+    void examineBoxAfterEntering(const LayoutBox&);
+    void examineBoxBeforeLeaving(const LayoutBox&);
+    void examineLine(const RootInlineBox&);
+
+    // Add a content run, specified by its end position. A content run is appended at every
+    // forced/explicit break and at the end of the column set. The content runs are used to
+    // determine where implicit/soft breaks will occur, in order to calculate an initial column
+    // height.
+    void addContentRun(LayoutUnit endOffsetInFlowThread);
+
+    // Return the index of the content run with the currently tallest columns, taking all implicit
+    // breaks assumed so far into account.
+    unsigned contentRunIndexWithTallestColumns() const;
+
+    // Given the current list of content runs, make assumptions about where we need to insert
+    // implicit breaks (if there's room for any at all; depending on the number of explicit breaks),
+    // and store the results. This is needed in order to balance the columns.
+    void distributeImplicitBreaks();
+
+    // A run of content without explicit (forced) breaks; i.e. a flow thread portion between two
+    // explicit breaks, between flow thread start and an explicit break, between an explicit break
+    // and flow thread end, or, in cases when there are no explicit breaks at all: between flow
+    // thread portion start and flow thread portion end. We need to know where the explicit breaks
+    // are, in order to figure out where the implicit breaks will end up, so that we get the columns
+    // properly balanced. A content run starts out as representing one single column, and will
+    // represent one additional column for each implicit break "inserted" there.
+    class ContentRun {
+    public:
+        ContentRun(LayoutUnit breakOffset)
+            : m_breakOffset(breakOffset)
+            , m_assumedImplicitBreaks(0) { }
+
+        unsigned assumedImplicitBreaks() const { return m_assumedImplicitBreaks; }
+        void assumeAnotherImplicitBreak() { m_assumedImplicitBreaks++; }
+        LayoutUnit breakOffset() const { return m_breakOffset; }
+
+        // Return the column height that this content run would require, considering the implicit
+        // breaks assumed so far.
+        LayoutUnit columnLogicalHeight(LayoutUnit startOffset) const { return ceilf((m_breakOffset - startOffset).toFloat() / float(m_assumedImplicitBreaks + 1)); }
+
+    private:
+        LayoutUnit m_breakOffset; // Flow thread offset where this run ends.
+        unsigned m_assumedImplicitBreaks; // Number of implicit breaks in this run assumed so far.
+    };
+    Vector<ContentRun, 32> m_contentRuns;
+};
+
+// If we have previously used InitialColumnHeightFinder to estimate an initial column height, and
+// that didn't result in tall enough columns, we need subsequent layout passes where we increase
+// the column height by the minimum space shortage at column breaks. This class finds the minimum
+// space shortage after having laid out with the current column height.
+class MinimumSpaceShortageFinder final : public ColumnBalancer {
+public:
+    MinimumSpaceShortageFinder(const MultiColumnFragmentainerGroup&);
+
+    LayoutUnit minimumSpaceShortage() const { return m_minimumSpaceShortage; }
+    unsigned forcedBreaksCount() const { return m_forcedBreaksCount; }
+
+private:
+    void examineBoxAfterEntering(const LayoutBox&);
+    void examineBoxBeforeLeaving(const LayoutBox&);
+    void examineLine(const RootInlineBox&);
+
+    void recordSpaceShortage(LayoutUnit shortage)
+    {
+        // Only positive values are interesting (and allowed) here. Zero space shortage may
+        // be reported when we're at the top of a column and the element has zero
+        // height.
+        if (shortage > 0)
+            m_minimumSpaceShortage = std::min(m_minimumSpaceShortage, shortage);
+    }
+
+    // The smallest amout of space shortage that caused a column break.
+    LayoutUnit m_minimumSpaceShortage;
+
+    // Set when breaking before a block, and we're looking for the first unbreakable descendant, in
+    // order to report correct space shortage for that one.
+    LayoutUnit m_pendingStrut;
+
+    unsigned m_forcedBreaksCount;
+};
+
+} // namespace blink