Policy providers all get a SchemaRegistry to work with.

chrome/browser/policy/configuration_policy_provider.h

 // Copyright (c) 2012 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 CHROME_BROWSER_POLICY_CONFIGURATION_POLICY_PROVIDER_H_
 #define CHROME_BROWSER_POLICY_CONFIGURATION_POLICY_PROVIDER_H_
 
 #include "base/basictypes.h"
 #include "base/memory/ref_counted.h"
 #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
 #include "base/observer_list.h"
 #include "chrome/browser/policy/policy_bundle.h"
+#include "chrome/browser/policy/schema_registry.h"
 #include "components/policy/core/common/policy_namespace.h"
 
 namespace policy {
 
-class PolicyDomainDescriptor;
-
 // A mostly-abstract super class for platform-specific policy providers.
 // Platform-specific policy providers (Windows Group Policy, gconf,
 // etc.) should implement a subclass of this class.
-class ConfigurationPolicyProvider {
+class ConfigurationPolicyProvider : public SchemaRegistry::Observer {
  public:
   class Observer {
    public:
     virtual ~Observer();
     virtual void OnUpdatePolicy(ConfigurationPolicyProvider* provider) = 0;
   };
 
   ConfigurationPolicyProvider();
 
   // Policy providers can be deleted quite late during shutdown of the browser,
   // and it's not guaranteed that the message loops will still be running when
   // this is invoked. Override Shutdown() instead for cleanup code that needs
   // to post to the FILE thread, for example.
   virtual ~ConfigurationPolicyProvider();
 
   // Invoked as soon as the main message loops are spinning. Policy providers
   // are created early during startup to provide the initial policies; the
   // Init() call allows them to perform initialization tasks that require
   // running message loops.
-  virtual void Init();
+  // The policy provider will load policy for the components registered in
+  // the |schema_registry| whose domain is supported by this provider.
+  virtual void Init(SchemaRegistry* registry);
 
   // Must be invoked before deleting the provider. Implementations can override
   // this method to do appropriate cleanup while threads are still running, and
   // must also invoke ConfigurationPolicyProvider::Shutdown().
   // The provider should keep providing the current policies after Shutdown()
   // is invoked, it only has to stop updating.
   virtual void Shutdown();
 
   // Returns the current PolicyBundle.
   const PolicyBundle& policies() const { return policy_bundle_; }
 
   // Check whether this provider has completed initialization for the given
   // policy |domain|. This is used to detect whether initialization is done in
   // case implementations need to do asynchronous operations for initialization.
   virtual bool IsInitializationComplete(PolicyDomain domain) const;
 
   // Asks the provider to refresh its policies. All the updates caused by this
   // call will be visible on the next call of OnUpdatePolicy on the observers,
   // which are guaranteed to happen even if the refresh fails.
   // It is possible that Shutdown() is called first though, and
   // OnUpdatePolicy won't be called if that happens.
   virtual void RefreshPolicies() = 0;
 
   // Observers must detach themselves before the provider is deleted.
   virtual void AddObserver(Observer* observer);
   virtual void RemoveObserver(Observer* observer);
 
-  // Notifies the provider that there is interest in loading policy for the
-  // listed components in the given |descriptor|. The list is complete; all the
-  // components that matter for the domain are included, and components not
-  // included can be discarded. The provider can ignore this information or use
-  // it to selectively load the corresponding policy from its sources.
-  virtual void RegisterPolicyDomain(
-      scoped_refptr<const PolicyDomainDescriptor> descriptor);
+  // SchemaRegistry::Observer:
+  // This base implementation calls RefreshPolicies if
+  // |has_new_schemas| is true.
+  virtual void OnSchemaRegistryUpdated(bool has_new_schemas) OVERRIDE;
 
  protected:
   // Subclasses must invoke this to update the policies currently served by
   // this provider. UpdatePolicy() takes ownership of |policies|.
   // The observers are notified after the policies are updated.
   void UpdatePolicy(scoped_ptr<PolicyBundle> bundle);
 
+  const scoped_refptr<SchemaMap>& schema_map() const;
+
  private:
   // The policies currently configured at this provider.
   PolicyBundle policy_bundle_;
 
   // Whether Shutdown() has been invoked.
   bool did_shutdown_;
 
+  SchemaRegistry* schema_registry_;
+
   ObserverList<Observer, true> observer_list_;
 
   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ConfigurationPolicyProvider);
 };
 
 }  // namespace policy
 
 #endif  // CHROME_BROWSER_POLICY_CONFIGURATION_POLICY_PROVIDER_H_