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/*
    Copyright (C) 2009 Paul Davis

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program 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 General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

*/

#ifndef __pbd_event_loop_h__
#define __pbd_event_loop_h__

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <boost/function.hpp>
#include <boost/bind.hpp> /* we don't need this here, but anything calling call_slot() probably will, so this is convenient */
#include <stdint.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <glibmm/threads.h>

#include "pbd/libpbd_visibility.h"

namespace PBD
{

/** An EventLoop is as basic abstraction designed to be used with any "user
 * interface" (not necessarily graphical) that needs to wait on
 * events/requests and dispatch/process them as they arrive.
 *
 * This is a very basic class that doesn't by itself provide an actual
 * event loop or thread. See BaseUI for the "real" object to be used
 * when something like this is needed (it inherits from EventLoop).
 */

class LIBPBD_API EventLoop
{
  public:
	EventLoop (std::string const&);
	virtual ~EventLoop() {}

	enum RequestType {
		range_guarantee = ~0
	};

        struct BaseRequestObject;

        struct InvalidationRecord {
	    std::list<BaseRequestObject*> requests;
	    PBD::EventLoop* event_loop;
	    const char* file;
	    int line;

	    InvalidationRecord() : event_loop (0) {}
        };

        static void* invalidate_request (void* data);

	struct BaseRequestObject {
	    RequestType             type;
            bool                    valid;
            InvalidationRecord*     invalidation;
	    boost::function<void()> the_slot;

            BaseRequestObject() : valid (true), invalidation (0) {}
	};

	virtual void call_slot (InvalidationRecord*, const boost::function<void()>&) = 0;
        virtual Glib::Threads::Mutex& slot_invalidation_mutex() = 0;

        std::string event_loop_name() const { return _name; }

	static EventLoop* get_event_loop_for_thread();
	static void set_event_loop_for_thread (EventLoop* ui);

	struct ThreadBufferMapping {
		pthread_t emitting_thread;
		std::string target_thread_name;
		void* request_buffer;
	};

	static std::vector<ThreadBufferMapping> get_request_buffers_for_target_thread (const std::string&);

	static void register_request_buffer_factory (const std::string& target_thread_name, void* (*factory) (uint32_t));
	static void pre_register (const std::string& emitting_thread_name, uint32_t num_requests);
	static void remove_request_buffer_from_map (void* ptr);

  private:
        static Glib::Threads::Private<EventLoop> thread_event_loop;
	std::string _name;

	typedef std::map<std::string,ThreadBufferMapping> ThreadRequestBufferList;
	static ThreadRequestBufferList thread_buffer_requests;
	static Glib::Threads::RWLock   thread_buffer_requests_lock;

	struct RequestBufferSupplier {

		/* @param name : name of object/entity that will/may accept
		   requests from other threads, via a request buffer.
		*/
		std::string name;

		/* @param factory : a function that can be called (with an
		   argument specifying the @param number_of_requests) to create and
		   return a request buffer for communicating with @param name)
		*/
		void* (*factory)(uint32_t nunber_of_requests);
	};
	typedef std::vector<RequestBufferSupplier> RequestBufferSuppliers;
	static RequestBufferSuppliers request_buffer_suppliers;
};

}

#define MISSING_INVALIDATOR 0 // used to mark places where we fail to provide an invalidator

#endif /* __pbd_event_loop_h__ */