Introducing SurfaceReferenceFactory

cc/surfaces/surface_reference_base.h

Index: cc/surfaces/surface_reference_base.h
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+// Copyright 2016 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.
+
+#ifndef CC_SURFACES_SURFACE_REFERENCE_BASE_H_
+#define CC_SURFACES_SURFACE_REFERENCE_BASE_H_
+
+#include <memory>
+
+#include "base/memory/ptr_util.h"
+#include "base/memory/ref_counted.h"
+#include "cc/surfaces/surface_sequence.h"
+
+namespace cc {
+
+class SurfaceReferenceFactory;
+
+// The base class for the references returned by SurfaceReferenceFactory and
+// its subclasses.
+// The objects of this class hold on their surface reference until they go
+// out of scope.
+// To keep things as lightweight as possible, the base class only keeps a
+// pointer to the factory and it's up to the subclasses to decide what other
+// information they need to keep.
+class SurfaceReferenceBase {
+ public:
+  explicit SurfaceReferenceBase(
+      scoped_refptr<const SurfaceReferenceFactory> factory);
+
+  virtual ~SurfaceReferenceBase();
+
+ protected:
+  void Destroy();
+
+ private:
+  scoped_refptr<const SurfaceReferenceFactory> factory_;
+
+  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(SurfaceReferenceBase);
+};
+
+}  // namespace cc
+
+#endif  // CC_SURFACES_SURFACE_REFERENCE_BASE_H_