Add support for (de)serializing cc::Layer properties.

cc/layers/layer_proto_converter.h

Index: cc/layers/layer_proto_converter.h
diff --git a/cc/layers/layer_proto_converter.h b/cc/layers/layer_proto_converter.h
index 29424a0347f392a2407518f2af57fbcc3bf51440..07de246ec2ecb6a45cfaa1fbe7861d2131d30e8d 100644
--- a/cc/layers/layer_proto_converter.h
+++ b/cc/layers/layer_proto_converter.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ namespace cc {
 
 namespace proto {
 class LayerNode;
+class LayerUpdate;
 }
 
 // A class to faciliate (de)serialization of a Layer tree to protocol buffers.
@@ -31,6 +32,19 @@ class CC_EXPORT LayerProtoConverter {
       scoped_refptr<Layer> existing_root,
       const proto::LayerNode& root_node);
 
+  // Starting at |root_layer|, serializes the properties of all the dirty nodes
+  // in the Layer hierarchy. The proto::LayerUpdate will contain all nodes that
+  // either are dirty or have dirty descendants. Only nodes that are dirty will
+  // contain the list of dirty properties.
+  static void SerializeLayerProperties(const scoped_refptr<Layer> root_layer,
+                                       proto::LayerUpdate* layer_update);
+
+  // Iterate over all updated layers from the LayerUpdate, and update the
+  // local Layers.
+  static void DeserializeLayerProperties(
+      scoped_refptr<Layer> existing_root,
+      const proto::LayerUpdate& layer_update);
+
   // Returns the Layer with proto.id() as the Layer id, if it exists in
   // |layer_id_map|. Otherwise, a new Layer is constructed of the type given
   // from proto.type().
@@ -42,6 +56,12 @@ class CC_EXPORT LayerProtoConverter {
   LayerProtoConverter();
   ~LayerProtoConverter();
 
+  // This method is the inner recursive function for SerializeLayerProperties
+  // declared above.
+  static void RecursivelySerializeLayerProperties(
+      const scoped_refptr<Layer> root_layer,

[vmpstr, 2015/11/18 04:05:25]

nit: const scoped_refptr<Layer>& root_layer

Or better yet, can you pass a non-owning raw pointer here? Just Layer*
root_layer?

[nyquist, 2015/11/18 07:15:59]

Done.

+      proto::LayerUpdate* layer_update);
+
   using LayerIdMap = base::hash_map<int, scoped_refptr<Layer>>;
   // Start at |layer| and recursively add |layer| and all its children and
   // special layers to |layer_id_map|.