summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffabout
path: root/microkde/kdecore/ksharedptr.h
blob: 545058ac2eb2f82b7bf6a1db55103233746640c8 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
/* This file is part of the KDE libraries
   Copyright (c) 1999 Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>

   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
   License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   Library General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
   along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
   the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
#ifndef KSharedPTR_H
#define KSharedPTR_H

/**
 * Reference counting for shared objects.  If you derive your object
 * from this class, then you may use it in conjunction with
 * @ref KSharedPtr to control the lifetime of your object.
 *
 * Specifically, all classes that derive from KShared have an internal
 * counter keeping track of how many other objects have a reference to
 * their object.  If used with @ref KSharedPtr, then your object will
 * not be deleted until all references to the object have been
 * released.
 *
 * You should probably not ever use any of the methods in this class
 * directly -- let the @ref KSharedPtr take care of that.  Just derive
 * your class from KShared and forget about it.
 *
 * @author Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
 * @version $Id$
 */
class KShared {
public:
   /**
    * Standard constructor.  This will initialize the reference count
    * on this object to 0.
    */
   KShared() : count(0) { }

   /**
    * Copy constructor.  This will @em not actually copy the objects
    * but it will initialize the reference count on this object to 0.
    */
   KShared( const KShared & ) : count(0) { }

   /**
    * Overloaded assignment operator.
    */
   KShared &operator=(const KShared & ) { return *this; }

   /**
    * Increases the reference count by one.
    */
   void _KShared_ref() const { count++; }

   /**
    * Releases a reference (decreases the reference count by one).  If
    * the count goes to 0, this object will delete itself.
    */
   void _KShared_unref() const { if (!--count) delete this; }

   /**
    * Return the current number of references held.
    *
    * @return Number of references
    */
   int _KShared_count() const { return count; }

protected:
   virtual ~KShared() { }
private:
   mutable int count;
};

/**
 * Can be used to control the lifetime of an object that has derived
 * @ref KShared. As long a someone holds a KSharedPtr on some @ref KShared
 * object it won't become deleted but is deleted once its reference
 * count is 0.  This struct emulates C++ pointers perfectly. So just
 * use it like a simple C++ pointer.
 *
 * KShared and KSharedPtr are preferred over QShared / QSharedPtr
 * since they are more safe.
 *
 * @author Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
 * @version $Id$
 */
template< class T >
struct KSharedPtr
{
public:
/**
 * Creates a null pointer.
 */
  KSharedPtr()
    : ptr(0) { }
  /**
   * Creates a new pointer.
   * @param the pointer
   */
  KSharedPtr( T* t )
    : ptr(t) { if ( ptr ) ptr->_KShared_ref(); }

  /**
   * Copies a pointer.
   * @param the pointer to copy
   */
  KSharedPtr( const KSharedPtr& p )
    : ptr(p.ptr) { if ( ptr ) ptr->_KShared_ref(); }

  /**
   * Unreferences the object that this pointer points to. If it was
   * the last reference, the object will be deleted.
   */
  ~KSharedPtr() { if ( ptr ) ptr->_KShared_unref(); }

  KSharedPtr<T>& operator= ( const KSharedPtr<T>& p ) {
    if ( ptr == p.ptr ) return *this;
    if ( ptr ) ptr->_KShared_unref();
    ptr = p.ptr;
    if ( ptr ) ptr->_KShared_ref();
    return *this;
  }
  KSharedPtr<T>& operator= ( T* p ) {
    if ( ptr == p ) return *this;
    if ( ptr ) ptr->_KShared_unref();
    ptr = p;
    if ( ptr ) ptr->_KShared_ref();
    return *this;
  }
  bool operator== ( const KSharedPtr<T>& p ) const { return ( ptr == p.ptr ); }
  bool operator!= ( const KSharedPtr<T>& p ) const { return ( ptr != p.ptr ); }
  bool operator== ( const T* p ) const { return ( ptr == p ); }
  bool operator!= ( const T* p ) const { return ( ptr != p ); }
  bool operator!() const { return ( ptr == 0 ); }
  operator T*() const { return ptr; }

  /**
   * Returns the pointer.
   * @return the pointer
   */
  T* data() { return ptr; }

  /**
   * Returns the pointer.
   * @return the pointer
   */
  const T* data() const { return ptr; }

  const T& operator*() const { return *ptr; }
  T& operator*() { return *ptr; }
  const T* operator->() const { return ptr; }
  T* operator->() { return ptr; }

  /**
   * Returns the number of references.
   * @return the number of references
   */
  int count() const { return ptr->_KShared_count(); } // for debugging purposes
private:
  T* ptr;
};

#endif