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construct/include/ircd/ctx/continuation.h
2018-02-05 21:24:34 -08:00

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// Matrix Construct
//
// Copyright (C) Matrix Construct Developers, Authors & Contributors
// Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Jason Volk <jason@zemos.net>
//
// Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
// purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
// copyright notice and this permission notice is present in all copies. The
// full license for this software is available in the LICENSE file.
#pragma once
#define HAVE_IRCD_CTX_CONTINUATION_H
// This file is not included with the IRCd standard include stack because
// it requires symbols we can't forward declare without boost headers. It
// is part of the <ircd/asio.h> stack which can be included in your
// definition file if necessary.
namespace ircd::ctx
{
using yield_context = boost::asio::yield_context;
struct continuation;
struct to_asio;
}
namespace ircd
{
using ctx::yield_context;
using ctx::continuation;
using ctx::to_asio;
}
/// This object must be placed on the stack when the context is yielding (INTERNAL)
///
/// The continuation constructor is the last thing executed before a context
/// yields. The continuation destructor is the first thing executed when a
/// context continues. This is not placed by a normal user wishing to context
/// switch, only a low-level library creator actually implementing the context
/// switch itself. The placement of this object must be correct. Generally,
/// we construct the `continuation` as an argument to `yield_context` as such
/// `yield_context{continuation{}}`. This ensures the continuation destructor
/// executes before control continues beyond the yield_context call itself and
/// ties this sequence together neatly.
///
struct ircd::ctx::continuation
{
ctx *self;
operator const boost::asio::yield_context &() const;
operator boost::asio::yield_context &();
continuation(ctx *const &self = ircd::ctx::current);
~continuation() noexcept;
};
/// This type of continuation should be used when yielding a context to a
/// boost::asio handler so we can have specific control over that type of
/// context switch in possible contrast or extension of the regular
/// continuation behavior.
///
/// The statement `yield_context{to_asio{}}` can be passed to any boost::asio
/// callback handler. Those handlers have overloads to accept this, many of
/// which are not documented.
///
struct ircd::ctx::to_asio
:ircd::ctx::continuation
{
using continuation::continuation;
};