On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Davide Andreoli <d...@gurumeditation.it> wrote:
> 2016-09-18 4:30 GMT+02:00 Felipe Magno de Almeida <
> felipe.m.alme...@gmail.com>:
>> On Sep 17, 2016 3:53 AM, "Davide Andreoli" <d...@gurumeditation.it> wrote:

[snip]

>> The problem with callbacks is not difficult to implement, but difficult to
>> free the void* data. It needs two function pointers and the void* data to
>> implement correctly and generally. Not that I'm against per se, but
>> lifetime is the real problem.
>
> Indeed the lifetime of the *void data is the trickiest part, a free_data_cb
> seems to me the most "correct" way to handle this, not only for bindings
> but also for C code.
>
> Can you explain me how promises solve this problem? where the user is
> expected to free the *data in C? in both the success/failure callbacks?

Promises are not generic, so their lifetime is known. The user frees it in
success/failure callback, yes.

> What about chained promises?

Chained promises are multiple promises, so each success/failure callback
that is registered must free its void* data in its own success/failure callback.

Note that the void* data is in this case in efl_promise_then, and not in
efl_promise_value_set, the last one has a free callback for the value.

[snip]

Regards,
-- 
Felipe Magno de Almeida

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