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// Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GPL-3.0-only WITH Qt-GPL-exception-1.0

#include "guard.h"
#include "qtcassert.h"

/*!
  \class Utils::Guard
  \inmodule QtCreator

  \brief The Guard class implements a recursive guard with locking mechanism.

  It may be used as an alternative to QSignalBlocker.
  QSignalBlocker blocks all signals of the object
  which is usually not desirable. It may also block signals
  which are needed internally by the object itself.
  The Guard and GuardLocker classes don't block signals at all.

  When calling a object's method which may in turn emit a signal
  which you are connected to, and you want to ignore
  this notification, you should keep the Guard object
  as your class member and declare the GuardLocker object
  just before calling the mentioned method, like:

  \code
  class MyClass : public QObject
  {
  \dots
  private:
      Guard updateGuard; // member of your class
  };

  \dots

  void MyClass::updateOtherObject()
  {
      GuardLocker updatelocker(updateGuard);
      otherObject->update(); // this may trigger a signal
  }
  \endcode

  Inside a slot which is connected to the other's object signal
  you may check if the guard is locked and ignore the further
  operations in this case:

  \code
  void MyClass::otherObjectUpdated()
  {
      if (updateGuard.isLocked())
          return;

      // we didn't trigger the update
      // so do update now
      \dots
  }
  \endcode

  The GuardLocker unlocks the Guard in its destructor.

  The Guard object is recursive, you may declare many GuardLocker
  objects for the same Guard instance and the Guard will be locked
  as long as at least one GuardLocker object created for the Guard
  is in scope.
*/

namespace Utils {

Guard::Guard() = default;

Guard::~Guard()
{
    QTC_CHECK(m_lockCount == 0);
}

bool Guard::isLocked() const
{
    return m_lockCount;
}

void Guard::lock()
{
    ++m_lockCount;
}

void Guard::unlock()
{
    QTC_CHECK(m_lockCount > 0);
    --m_lockCount;
}

GuardLocker::GuardLocker(Guard &guard)
    : m_guard(guard)
{
    ++m_guard.m_lockCount;
}

GuardLocker::~GuardLocker()
{
    --m_guard.m_lockCount;
}

} // namespace Utils