Add garbage collector prologue callback to qv8engine

This commit provides a generic way to manage persistent handles
created by QML so that circular references don't cause leaks, by
utilising v8's garbage collector callbacks.

Change-Id: Ia898197fdf5d86b90915b835ce3e532f7d400de4
Reviewed-on: http://codereview.qt.nokia.com/3688
Reviewed-by: Qt Sanity Bot <qt_sanity_bot@ovi.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Kennedy <aaron.kennedy@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/auto/declarative/qdeclarativeecmascript/data/handleReferenceManagement.handle.1.qml b/tests/auto/declarative/qdeclarativeecmascript/data/handleReferenceManagement.handle.1.qml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9c27653b34
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+++ b/tests/auto/declarative/qdeclarativeecmascript/data/handleReferenceManagement.handle.1.qml
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+import QtQuick 2.0
+import Qt.test 1.0
+
+Item {
+    id: obj
+    objectName: "obj"
+    property CircularReferenceHandle first
+    property CircularReferenceHandle second
+
+    CircularReferenceHandle {
+        id: crh
+        objectName: "crh"
+    }
+
+    function createReference() {
+        first = crh.generate(crh);
+        second = crh.generate(crh);
+        // NOTE: manually add reference from first to second
+        // in unit test prior reparenting and gc.
+    }
+
+    function performGc() {
+        gc();
+    }
+}