Change 20100314-maxcarlson-0 by maxcarl...@bank on 2010-03-14 00:54:51 PST
    in /Users/maxcarlson/openlaszlo/trunk-clean
    for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk

Summary: UPDATED AGAIN: Automatically remove invalid delegates in 
LzEventable.destroy()

Bugs Fixed: LPP-8822 - Improve layout performance

Technical Reviewer: ptw
QA Reviewer: hminsky

Release Notes: It is no longer necessary to manually track and release 
delegates to prevent memory leaks.  This is handled automatically by the event 
system.

Details: Updated to address Tucker's comments:

1) This version looks better, but I agree with Andre that this mechanism is 
redundant with __LZdelegates.  We need to integrate them.  The only thing that 
is happening in LzState is a kludge that temporarily sets the parent's 
__LZdelegates to null so we can capture the delegates that were created as a 
result of applying the state.  This same kludge would work perfectly well with 
your new mechanism.  Can you revise one more time to do that?

Done.

2) To be complete, you really should also look for and remove redundant 
delegate destroy handling in all the components.

Done.

3) Finally, the documentation needs to be updated (and a release note added) 
about the new self-destroying behavior of delegates.  I'm sure there a many 
lines of user code wasted on tracking delegates for destroy methods that are 
now redundant.  In fact, perhaps you could add some debug code that detects 
when a delegate has been destroyed by your new mechanism and issue a warning if 
someone makes an unregisterAll call after the delegte is destroyed?

This should be taken care of - let me know if I missed anything in the docs.

components/* - Remove manual delegate tracking.

LaszloEvents - Warn when unregisterAll() is called on a previously destroyed 
delegate.

Otherwise, the same as before, when I updated to address Andre's comments:
> Not approved, because
>
> 1) delegates will now leak memory until their context is destroyed

True, but delegates are tiny, compared to the risk of leaking a entire nodes 
that currently exists.

> 2) you really should integrate this approach with LzNode#__LZdelegates

I though of that, but __LZdelegates is used especially to track delegates that 
need to be applied - see LzState.apply()

> 3) just setting the delegate's context to null doesn't look right,
> instead call unregisterAll() and prevent further calls to register(..)
> (if you intended to remove the reference from the delegate to the
> context, you also should set the method reference to null, because of
> bound methods, cf. ActionScript3)

Agreed.  this is done.

> 4) API change: releaseLayout()'s contract is changed, cf. last mail from
> Tucker

Fixed. 

> 5) missing integration with explicit delegate unregister code, cf.
> LzInputText#destroy() (may be added in an additional change - but there
> needs to be a note at least!) 

I think I caught all these.  

LzInputText,LzAnimatorGroup,LzDatapointer,LzDataset - Remove extra delegate 
unregistration as it's now handled by the event system.

Otherwise the same as before:

LzEventable - Add _delegates array to hold delegates that have a context 
pointing to this object.  Clean out delegate contexts in destroy().

LaszloEvents - LzDelegate registers on its contexts' _delegates array.

LaszloLayout,resizelayout - don't track delegates anymore.

Tests: Run modified leak-components test in swf10 - the memory monitor in the 
upper left shows much less leakage with this patch: you can click the monitor 
to force garbage collection.

Files:
M       test/components/lz/leak-components.lzx
M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/core/LzNode.lzs
M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/core/LzEventable.lzs
M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/views/LzInputText.lzs
M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/helpers/LzState.lzs
M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/events/LaszloEvents.lzs
M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/controllers/LzAnimatorGroup.lzs
M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/controllers/LaszloLayout.lzs
M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/data/LzDatapointer.lzs
M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/data/LzDataset.lzs
M       docs/src/developers/delegates.dbk
M       lps/components/rpc/ajax.lzx
M       lps/components/extensions/html.lzx
M       lps/components/utils/layouts/resizelayout.lzx
M       lps/components/utils/replicator/replicator.lzx
M       lps/components/av/rtmpstatus.lzx
M       lps/components/base/basetabelement.lzx
M       lps/components/base/basescrollbar.lzx
M       lps/components/base/basecomponent.lzx
M       lps/components/base/basewindow.lzx
M       lps/components/base/submit.lzx
M       lps/components/base/basetrackgroup.lzx
M       lps/components/base/basedatacombobox.lzx

Changeset: 
http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20100314-maxcarlson-0.tar

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