Turns out that my test program no longer leaked because the rows in the
test program's CellTable were no longer being replaced. After I changed the
test program to output different data for each iteration, it became clear
that the rows in the table just never changed. I tracked down the problem
to setting the innerHTML for each row before the call to
tableElement.replaceChild(newSection, section). Once I moved the setting of
innerHTML to null to after this call, the table updates properly, but the
leak still remains.
Upon further testing, the memory leak seems to be largely from the
replaceChild call. I guess if the entire TableSection is replaced in the
DOM, IE8 doesn't properly clean this up, even if you set the innerHTML to
null for the individual rows. I changed the implementation of
replaceTableSection so that it ends up calling replaceAllRowsImplLegacy
(which replaces one row at a time) and this yielded the correct result of
updating the table while also not leaking memory.
Here's the final code that I ended up with in ImplTrident:
// GWT Issue #9164 - https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9164
// Discussion thread:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-web-toolkit/lNOKG2dgAzs
private native final void setRowInnerHtmlToNull(TableRowElement row)
/*-{
row.innerHTML = null;
}-*/;
/**
* This method is used for legacy AbstractCellTable that's not a
* {@link TableSectionChangeHandler}.
*/
protected void replaceAllRowsImplLegacy(AbstractCellTable<?> table,
TableSectionElement section,
SafeHtml html) {
// Remove all children.
Element child = section.getFirstChildElement();
while (child != null) {
Element next = child.getNextSiblingElement();
section.removeChild(child);
// GWT Issue #9164 - https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9164
// Discussion thread:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-web-toolkit/lNOKG2dgAzs
if (TableRowElement.is(child)) {
setRowInnerHtmlToNull(TableRowElement.as(child));
}
child = next;
}
// Add new child elements.
TableSectionElement newSection = convertToSectionElement(table,
section.getTagName(), html);
child = newSection.getFirstChildElement();
while (child != null) {
Element next = child.getNextSiblingElement();
section.appendChild(child);
child = next;
}
}
/**
* Render html into a table section. This is achieved by first setting
the html in a DIV
* element, and then swap the table section with the corresponding
element in the DIV. This
* method is used in IE since the normal optimizations are not feasible.
*
* @param table the {@link AbstractCellTable}
* @param section the {@link TableSectionElement} to replace
* @param html the html of a table section element containing the rows
*/
private void replaceTableSection(AbstractCellTable<?> table,
TableSectionElement section,
SafeHtml html) {
String sectionName = section.getTagName().toLowerCase();
replaceAllRowsImplLegacy(table, section, html);
if ("tbody".equals(sectionName)) {
((TableSectionChangeHandler) table).onTableBodyChange(section);
} else if ("thead".equals(sectionName)) {
((TableSectionChangeHandler) table).onTableHeadChange(section);
} else if ("tfoot".equals(sectionName)) {
((TableSectionChangeHandler) table).onTableFootChange(section);
}
}
Again, many thanks for all your help. We couldn't have solved this
otherwise.
Harvard
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:07 AM, DaveC <[email protected]>
wrote:
> No worries, glad it worked! ;)
>
> I've not personally committed any code to the core gwt project but you can
> find out more here
> http://www.gwtproject.org/makinggwtbetter.html#contributingcode
>
> Bear in mind that GWT 3.0 is going to be a very different animal (for
> instance, from what I understand there will be no widgets or gwt-rpc...),
> so perhaps there isn't such a need to get these things fixed... I might be
> wrong though.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
> On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:24:27 UTC+1, Harvard Pan wrote:
>>
>> Dave,
>>
>> Thank you SO much for this. I tested this using my test project and it
>> seems to have solved the memory leak completely! I've attached my version
>> of the file (modified from 2.5.1-rc1 branch) with your changes.
>>
>> What's the best way to get this fix to the GWT code base so that future
>> versions of GWT will have this fix as well? I'd previously logged Issue
>> #9164 (https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9164) on the gwtproject
>> page.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>> Harvard
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 7:11:24 AM UTC-4, DaveC wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think you'll have to dig into AbstractCellTable in order to fix this.
>>> I did a quick test of a fix I implemented and it "appears" to work for IE11
>>> running IE8/IE9 mode but not IE10 mode, I've not tested it in a real IE8 or
>>> IE9.
>>>
>>> Basically what I did was exaactly what you said - set row.innerHTML to
>>> null.
>>>
>>> I took a copy of AbstractCellTable (including the package structure) and
>>> placed it in my test project. In the ImplTrident inner class I've tweaked
>>> the methods replaceTableSection and replaceAllRowsImplLegacy to set the
>>> innerHTML to null for each row e.g.
>>>
>>> * private native final void setRowInnerHtmlToNull(Element row)/*-{*
>>> * row.innerHTML = null;*
>>> * }-*/;*
>>>
>>> private void replaceTableSection.....
>>>
>>> TableElement tableElement = table.getElement().cast();
>>>
>>> * Element child = section.getFirstChildElement();*
>>> * while (child != null) {*
>>> * setRowInnerHtmlToNull(child);*
>>> * child = child.getNextSiblingElement();*
>>> * }*
>>>
>>> tableElement.replaceChild(newSection, section);
>>>
>>> .....}
>>>
>>> protected void replaceAllRowsImplLegacy(AbstractCellTable<?> table,
>>> TableSectionElement section,
>>> SafeHtml html) {
>>> // Remove all children.
>>> Element child = section.getFirstChildElement();
>>> while (child != null) {
>>> Element next = child.getNextSiblingElement();
>>> section.removeChild(child);
>>> *setRowInnerHtmlToNull(child);*
>>> child = next;
>>> }
>>>
>>> ....}
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 23 July 2015 22:05:10 UTC+1, Harvard Pan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Our company uses GWT 2.5.1-rc1 and many of our customers (healthcare)
>>>> use IE8. We were hopeful that the memory leak in CellTable would have been
>>>> addressed by the memory leak fix for FlexTable. That leak (Issue 6938 -
>>>> https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=6938)
>>>> was fixed in 2.6. After grabbing the fix and merging it into the 2.5.1-rc1
>>>> code, we can confirm that FlexTable indeed is fixed and no longer leaking.
>>>> However, we still have leaking resources in CellTable. I've written a small
>>>> sample application to demonstrate the code that leaks. It's available on
>>>> BitBucket for anyone to pull.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://bitbucket.org/harvardpan/celltableleak/src/3eb0d9941df6fe40b4b09eef0ce1968c6db90da3/src/com/healthfortis/sample/celltableleak/client/CellTableLeak.java?at=master
>>>>
>>>> The root cause of 6938 was described in a Microsoft Connect page:
>>>> http://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/790340/memory-leak-in-ie9-ie10-tables
>>>> In it, it describes multiple reasons for the leak, including:
>>>>
>>>> - rows with ids
>>>> - cells with ids
>>>> - code that references a row.cells expression, even if it does not
>>>> store or use the result (that's the fix in 6938)
>>>> - code that does not set row.innerHTML to null after invoking
>>>> table.deleteRow() for the row.
>>>>
>>>> I imagine that the CellTable leak is related to one of the conditions
>>>> above. I suspect the last one as I never do actually see any setting to
>>>> null of innerHTML in the javascript. Wanted to check in to see if anyone on
>>>> this forum had any ideas on where we could investigate next.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Harvard
>>>>
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