On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Geoff Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 2:47:48 AM UTC-8, Ben Noordhuis wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Geoff Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to Enter a Context in one Locker, then use it in another:
>> >
>> >         v8::Isolate *isolate = v8::Isolate::New();
>> >         {
>> >                 v8::Locker locker(isolate);
>> >                 isolate->Enter();
>> >         }
>> >
>> >         v8::Persistent<v8::Context> pctxt;
>> >         {
>> >                 v8::Locker locker(isolate);
>> >                 v8::HandleScope handleScope(isolate);
>> >                 v8::Local<v8::Context> ctxt = v8::Context::New(isolate);
>> >                 ctxt->Enter();
>> >                 pctxt.Reset(isolate, ctxt);
>> >         } // Error occurs here, on locker dtor
>> >
>> >         {
>> >                 v8::Locker locker(isolate);
>> >                 v8::HandleScope handleScope(isolate);
>> >                 v8::Local<v8::Context> ctxt =
>> > v8::Local<v8::Context>::New(isolate, pctxt);
>> >                 ctxt->Exit();
>> >         }
>> >
>> > This causes an assertion failure in a debug build:
>> > # Fatal error in ../src/api.h, line 577
>> > # CHECK(entered_contexts_.length() == 0) failed
>> > and a fatal error in a release build:
>> > # Fatal error in v8::Context::Exit()
>> > # Cannot exit non-entered context
>> >
>> > The assertion fails because the dtor of a top-level Locker releases
>> > thread-local resources, which includes the list of entered contexts.
>> >
>> > I'm able to work around this by heap-allocating a Locker/Unlocker pair
>> > after
>> > entering the isolate (before the declaration of pctxt):
>> >         v8::Locker *toplock = new v8::Locker(isolate);
>> >         v8::Unlocker *topunlock = new v8::Unlocker(isolate);
>> > and deleting them when I dispose of the isolate, but this is ugly and
>> > goes
>> > counter to the way I see these APIs being used.
>> >
>> > Is there a better way to solve this problem?
>>
>> Hi Geoff, is there a reason you cannot (or don't want to) exit the
>> Context before unlocking the isolate again?  Do you need Lockers and
>> Unlockers in the first place?
>
>
> I want to be able to run a script against a context, then access values out
> of that context later.
>
> This is actually working fine without Locker/Unlocker, but I'm adding
> Lockers so I can add debugger support:
> http://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/AddDebuggerSupport

Okay, is there anything stopping you from exiting the context, then
entering it again when you want to retrieve those values?  Store the
context in a Persistent<Context> if you're worried that V8 will
prematurely garbage-collect it.

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