// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef BASE_FILES_IMPORTANT_FILE_WRITER_H_ #define BASE_FILES_IMPORTANT_FILE_WRITER_H_ #include <string> #include "base/base_export.h" #include "base/basictypes.h" #include "base/callback.h" #include "base/files/file_path.h" #include "base/memory/ref_counted.h" #include "base/threading/non_thread_safe.h" #include "base/time/time.h" #include "base/timer/timer.h" namespace base { class SequencedTaskRunner; class Thread; // Helper to ensure that a file won't be corrupted by the write (for example on // application crash). Consider a naive way to save an important file F: // // 1. Open F for writing, truncating it. // 2. Write new data to F. // // It's good when it works, but it gets very bad if step 2. doesn't complete. // It can be caused by a crash, a computer hang, or a weird I/O error. And you // end up with a broken file. // // To be safe, we don't start with writing directly to F. Instead, we write to // to a temporary file. Only after that write is successful, we rename the // temporary file to target filename. // // If you want to know more about this approach and ext3/ext4 fsync issues, see // http://valhenson.livejournal.com/37921.html class BASE_EXPORT ImportantFileWriter : public NonThreadSafe { public: // Used by ScheduleSave to lazily provide the data to be saved. Allows us // to also batch data serializations. class BASE_EXPORT DataSerializer { public: // Should put serialized string in |data| and return true on successful // serialization. Will be called on the same thread on which // ImportantFileWriter has been created. virtual bool SerializeData(std::string* data) = 0; protected: virtual ~DataSerializer() {} }; // Save |data| to |path| in an atomic manner (see the class comment above). // Blocks and writes data on the current thread. static bool WriteFileAtomically(const FilePath& path, const std::string& data); // Initialize the writer. // |path| is the name of file to write. // |task_runner| is the SequencedTaskRunner instance where on which we will // execute file I/O operations. // All non-const methods, ctor and dtor must be called on the same thread. ImportantFileWriter( const FilePath& path, const scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner>& task_runner); // You have to ensure that there are no pending writes at the moment // of destruction. ~ImportantFileWriter(); const FilePath& path() const { return path_; } // Returns true if there is a scheduled write pending which has not yet // been started. bool HasPendingWrite() const; // Save |data| to target filename. Does not block. If there is a pending write // scheduled by ScheduleWrite, it is cancelled. void WriteNow(const std::string& data); // Schedule a save to target filename. Data will be serialized and saved // to disk after the commit interval. If another ScheduleWrite is issued // before that, only one serialization and write to disk will happen, and // the most recent |serializer| will be used. This operation does not block. // |serializer| should remain valid through the lifetime of // ImportantFileWriter. void ScheduleWrite(DataSerializer* serializer); // Serialize data pending to be saved and execute write on backend thread. void DoScheduledWrite(); // Registers |on_next_successful_write| to be called once, on the next // successful write event. Only one callback can be set at once. void RegisterOnNextSuccessfulWriteCallback( const base::Closure& on_next_successful_write); TimeDelta commit_interval() const { return commit_interval_; } void set_commit_interval(const TimeDelta& interval) { commit_interval_ = interval; } private: // Helper method for WriteNow(). bool PostWriteTask(const std::string& data); // If |result| is true and |on_next_successful_write_| is set, invokes // |on_successful_write_| and then resets it; no-ops otherwise. void ForwardSuccessfulWrite(bool result); // Invoked once and then reset on the next successful write event. base::Closure on_next_successful_write_; // Path being written to. const FilePath path_; // TaskRunner for the thread on which file I/O can be done. const scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner> task_runner_; // Timer used to schedule commit after ScheduleWrite. OneShotTimer<ImportantFileWriter> timer_; // Serializer which will provide the data to be saved. DataSerializer* serializer_; // Time delta after which scheduled data will be written to disk. TimeDelta commit_interval_; WeakPtrFactory<ImportantFileWriter> weak_factory_; DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ImportantFileWriter); }; } // namespace base #endif // BASE_FILES_IMPORTANT_FILE_WRITER_H_