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#ifndef WebThread_h
#define WebThread_h

#include "WebCommon.h"

namespace blink {

// Provides an interface to an embedder-defined thread implementation.
//
// Deleting the thread blocks until all pending, non-delayed tasks have been
// run.
class BLINK_PLATFORM_EXPORT WebThread {
public:
    class Task {
    public:
        virtual ~Task() { }
        virtual void run() = 0;
    };

    class BLINK_PLATFORM_EXPORT TaskObserver {
    public:
        virtual ~TaskObserver() { }
        virtual void willProcessTask() = 0;
        virtual void didProcessTask() = 0;
    };

    // postTask() and postDelayedTask() take ownership of the passed Task
    // object. It is safe to invoke postTask() and postDelayedTask() from any
    // thread.
    virtual void postTask(Task*) = 0;
    virtual void postDelayedTask(Task*, long long delayMs) = 0;

    virtual bool isCurrentThread() const = 0;

    virtual void addTaskObserver(TaskObserver*) { }
    virtual void removeTaskObserver(TaskObserver*) { }

    // enterRunLoop() processes tasks posted to this WebThread. This call does not return until some task calls exitRunLoop().
    // WebThread does not support nesting, meaning that once the run loop is entered for a given WebThread it is not valid to
    // call enterRunLoop() again.
    virtual void enterRunLoop() = 0;

    // exitRunLoop() runs tasks until there are no tasks available to run, then returns control to the caller of enterRunLoop().
    // Must be called when the WebThread is running.
    virtual void exitRunLoop() = 0;

    virtual ~WebThread() { }
};

} // namespace blink

#endif

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