Adding basic support for posting tasks to a process thread.
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R=magjed@webrtc.org
Review URL: https://webrtc-codereview.appspot.com/41099004
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#8614}
git-svn-id: http://webrtc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@8614 4adac7df-926f-26a2-2b94-8c16560cd09d
diff --git a/webrtc/modules/utility/interface/process_thread.h b/webrtc/modules/utility/interface/process_thread.h
index e30325c..0e84506 100644
--- a/webrtc/modules/utility/interface/process_thread.h
+++ b/webrtc/modules/utility/interface/process_thread.h
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@
namespace webrtc {
class Module;
+class ProcessTask {
+ public:
+ ProcessTask() {}
+ virtual ~ProcessTask() {}
+
+ virtual void Run() = 0;
+};
+
class ProcessThread {
public:
virtual ~ProcessThread();
@@ -36,6 +44,14 @@
// Can be called on any thread.
virtual void WakeUp(Module* module) = 0;
+ // Queues a task object to run on the worker thread. Ownership of the
+ // task object is transferred to the ProcessThread and the object will
+ // either be deleted after running on the worker thread, or on the
+ // construction thread of the ProcessThread instance, if the task did not
+ // get a chance to run (e.g. posting the task while shutting down or when
+ // the thread never runs).
+ virtual void PostTask(rtc::scoped_ptr<ProcessTask> task) = 0;
+
// Adds a module that will start to receive callbacks on the worker thread.
// Can be called from any thread.
virtual void RegisterModule(Module* module) = 0;