toolkit/components/osfile/modules/_PromiseWorker.jsm

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     1.4 +/**
     1.5 + * Thin wrapper around a ChromeWorker that wraps postMessage/onmessage/onerror
     1.6 + * as promises.
     1.7 + *
     1.8 + * Not for public use yet.
     1.9 + */
    1.10 +
    1.11 +"use strict";
    1.12 +
    1.13 +this.EXPORTED_SYMBOLS = ["PromiseWorker"];
    1.14 +
    1.15 +// The library of promises.
    1.16 +Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm", this);
    1.17 +
    1.18 +/**
    1.19 + * An implementation of queues (FIFO).
    1.20 + *
    1.21 + * The current implementation uses one array, runs in O(n ^ 2), and is optimized
    1.22 + * for the case in which queues are generally short.
    1.23 + */
    1.24 +let Queue = function Queue() {
    1.25 +  this._array = [];
    1.26 +};
    1.27 +Queue.prototype = {
    1.28 +  pop: function pop() {
    1.29 +    return this._array.shift();
    1.30 +  },
    1.31 +  push: function push(x) {
    1.32 +    return this._array.push(x);
    1.33 +  },
    1.34 +  isEmpty: function isEmpty() {
    1.35 +    return this._array.length == 0;
    1.36 +  }
    1.37 +};
    1.38 +
    1.39 +/**
    1.40 + * An object responsible for dispatching messages to
    1.41 + * a chrome worker and routing the responses.
    1.42 + *
    1.43 + * @param {string} url The url containing the source code for this worker,
    1.44 + * as in constructor ChromeWorker.
    1.45 + * @param {Function} log A logging function.
    1.46 + *
    1.47 + * @constructor
    1.48 + */
    1.49 +function PromiseWorker(url, log) {
    1.50 +  if (typeof url != "string") {
    1.51 +    throw new TypeError("Expecting a string");
    1.52 +  }
    1.53 +  if (typeof log !== "function") {
    1.54 +    throw new TypeError("log is expected to be a function");
    1.55 +  }
    1.56 +  this._log = log;
    1.57 +  this._url = url;
    1.58 +
    1.59 +  /**
    1.60 +   * The queue of deferred, waiting for the completion of their
    1.61 +   * respective job by the worker.
    1.62 +   *
    1.63 +   * Each item in the list may contain an additional field |closure|,
    1.64 +   * used to store strong references to value that must not be
    1.65 +   * garbage-collected before the reply has been received (e.g.
    1.66 +   * arrays).
    1.67 +   *
    1.68 +   * @type {Queue<{deferred:deferred, closure:*=}>}
    1.69 +   */
    1.70 +  this._queue = new Queue();
    1.71 +
    1.72 +  /**
    1.73 +   * The number of the current message.
    1.74 +   *
    1.75 +   * Used for debugging purposes.
    1.76 +   */
    1.77 +  this._id = 0;
    1.78 +
    1.79 +  /**
    1.80 +   * The instant at which the worker was launched.
    1.81 +   */
    1.82 +  this.launchTimeStamp = null;
    1.83 +
    1.84 +  /**
    1.85 +   * Timestamps provided by the worker for statistics purposes.
    1.86 +   */
    1.87 +  this.workerTimeStamps = null;
    1.88 +}
    1.89 +PromiseWorker.prototype = {
    1.90 +  /**
    1.91 +   * Instantiate the worker lazily.
    1.92 +   */
    1.93 +  get _worker() {
    1.94 +    delete this._worker;
    1.95 +    let worker = new ChromeWorker(this._url);
    1.96 +    let self = this;
    1.97 +    Object.defineProperty(this, "_worker", {value:
    1.98 +      worker
    1.99 +    });
   1.100 +
   1.101 +    // We assume that we call to _worker for the purpose of calling
   1.102 +    // postMessage().
   1.103 +    this.launchTimeStamp = Date.now();
   1.104 +
   1.105 +    /**
   1.106 +     * Receive errors that are not instances of OS.File.Error, propagate
   1.107 +     * them to the listeners.
   1.108 +     *
   1.109 +     * The worker knows how to serialize errors that are instances
   1.110 +     * of |OS.File.Error|. These are treated by |worker.onmessage|.
   1.111 +     * However, for other errors, we rely on DOM's mechanism for
   1.112 +     * serializing errors, which transmits these errors through
   1.113 +     * |worker.onerror|.
   1.114 +     *
   1.115 +     * @param {Error} error Some JS error.
   1.116 +     */
   1.117 +    worker.onerror = function onerror(error) {
   1.118 +      self._log("Received uncaught error from worker", error.message, error.filename, error.lineno);
   1.119 +      error.preventDefault();
   1.120 +      let {deferred} = self._queue.pop();
   1.121 +      deferred.reject(error);
   1.122 +    };
   1.123 +
   1.124 +    /**
   1.125 +     * Receive messages from the worker, propagate them to the listeners.
   1.126 +     *
   1.127 +     * Messages must have one of the following shapes:
   1.128 +     * - {ok: some_value} in case of success
   1.129 +     * - {fail: some_error} in case of error, where
   1.130 +     *    some_error is an instance of |PromiseWorker.WorkerError|
   1.131 +     *
   1.132 +     * Messages may also contain a field |id| to help
   1.133 +     * with debugging.
   1.134 +     *
   1.135 +     * Messages may also optionally contain a field |durationMs|, holding
   1.136 +     * the duration of the function call in milliseconds.
   1.137 +     *
   1.138 +     * @param {*} msg The message received from the worker.
   1.139 +     */
   1.140 +    worker.onmessage = function onmessage(msg) {
   1.141 +      self._log("Received message from worker", msg.data);
   1.142 +      let handler = self._queue.pop();
   1.143 +      let deferred = handler.deferred;
   1.144 +      let data = msg.data;
   1.145 +      if (data.id != handler.id) {
   1.146 +        throw new Error("Internal error: expecting msg " + handler.id + ", " +
   1.147 +                        " got " + data.id + ": " + JSON.stringify(msg.data));
   1.148 +      }
   1.149 +      if ("timeStamps" in data) {
   1.150 +        self.workerTimeStamps = data.timeStamps;
   1.151 +      }
   1.152 +      if ("ok" in data) {
   1.153 +        // Pass the data to the listeners.
   1.154 +        deferred.resolve(data);
   1.155 +      } else if ("StopIteration" in data) {
   1.156 +        // We have received a StopIteration error
   1.157 +        deferred.reject(StopIteration);
   1.158 +      } if ("fail" in data) {
   1.159 +        // We have received an error that was serialized by the
   1.160 +        // worker.
   1.161 +        deferred.reject(new PromiseWorker.WorkerError(data.fail));
   1.162 +      }
   1.163 +    };
   1.164 +    return worker;
   1.165 +  },
   1.166 +
   1.167 +  /**
   1.168 +   * Post a message to a worker.
   1.169 +   *
   1.170 +   * @param {string} fun The name of the function to call.
   1.171 +   * @param {Array} array The contents of the message.
   1.172 +   * @param {*=} closure An object holding references that should not be
   1.173 +   * garbage-collected before the message treatment is complete.
   1.174 +   *
   1.175 +   * @return {promise}
   1.176 +   */
   1.177 +  post: function post(fun, array, closure) {
   1.178 +    let deferred = Promise.defer();
   1.179 +    let id = ++this._id;
   1.180 +    let message = {fun: fun, args: array, id: id};
   1.181 +    this._log("Posting message", message);
   1.182 +    try {
   1.183 +      this._worker.postMessage(message);
   1.184 +    } catch (ex if typeof ex == "number") {
   1.185 +      this._log("Could not post message", message, "due to xpcom error", ex);
   1.186 +      // handle raw xpcom errors (see eg bug 961317)
   1.187 +      return Promise.reject(new Components.Exception("Error in postMessage", ex));
   1.188 +    } catch (ex) {
   1.189 +      this._log("Could not post message", message, "due to error", ex);
   1.190 +      return Promise.reject(ex);
   1.191 +    }
   1.192 +
   1.193 +    this._queue.push({deferred:deferred, closure: closure, id: id});
   1.194 +    this._log("Message posted");
   1.195 +    return deferred.promise;
   1.196 +  }
   1.197 +};
   1.198 +
   1.199 +/**
   1.200 + * An error that has been serialized by the worker.
   1.201 + *
   1.202 + * @constructor
   1.203 + */
   1.204 +PromiseWorker.WorkerError = function WorkerError(data) {
   1.205 +  this.data = data;
   1.206 +};
   1.207 +
   1.208 +this.PromiseWorker = PromiseWorker;

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