CCThread.h   [plain text]

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#ifndef CCThread_h
#define CCThread_h

#include <wtf/PassOwnPtr.h>
#include <wtf/Threading.h>

namespace WebCore {

// CCThread provides basic infrastructure for messaging with the compositor in a
// platform-neutral way.
class CCThread {
public:
    virtual ~CCThread() { }

    class Task {
        WTF_MAKE_NONCOPYABLE(Task);
    public:
        virtual ~Task() { }
        virtual void performTask() = 0;
        void* instance() const { return m_instance; }
    protected:
        Task(void* instance) : m_instance(instance) { }
        void* m_instance;
    };

    // Executes the task on context's thread asynchronously.
    virtual void postTask(PassOwnPtr<Task>) = 0;

    // Executes the task after the specified delay.
    virtual void postDelayedTask(PassOwnPtr<Task>, long long delayMs) = 0;

    virtual WTF::ThreadIdentifier threadID() const = 0;
};

}

#endif