ACE_Message_Block Class Reference

Stores messages for use throughout ACE (particularly in an ACE_Message_Queue). More...

#include <Message_Block.h>

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Public Types

enum  {
  MB_DATA = 0x01, MB_PROTO = 0x02, MB_BREAK = 0x03, MB_PASSFP = 0x04,
  MB_EVENT = 0x05, MB_SIG = 0x06, MB_IOCTL = 0x07, MB_SETOPTS = 0x08,
  MB_IOCACK = 0x81, MB_IOCNAK = 0x82, MB_PCPROTO = 0x83, MB_PCSIG = 0x84,
  MB_READ = 0x85, MB_FLUSH = 0x86, MB_STOP = 0x87, MB_START = 0x88,
  MB_HANGUP = 0x89, MB_ERROR = 0x8a, MB_PCEVENT = 0x8b, MB_NORMAL = 0x00,
  MB_PRIORITY = 0x80, MB_USER = 0x200
}
enum  { DONT_DELETE = 01, USER_FLAGS = 0x1000 }
typedef int ACE_Message_Type
typedef unsigned long Message_Flags

Public Member Functions

 ACE_Message_Block (ACE_Allocator *message_block_allocator=0)
 Create an empty message.
 ACE_Message_Block (ACE_Data_Block *data_block, Message_Flags flags=0, ACE_Allocator *message_block_allocator=0)
 ACE_Message_Block (const char *data, size_t size=0, unsigned long priority=ACE_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_BLOCK_PRIORITY)
 ACE_Message_Block (size_t size, ACE_Message_Type type=MB_DATA, ACE_Message_Block *cont=0, const char *data=0, ACE_Allocator *allocator_strategy=0, ACE_Lock *locking_strategy=0, unsigned long priority=ACE_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_BLOCK_PRIORITY, const ACE_Time_Value &execution_time=ACE_Time_Value::zero, const ACE_Time_Value &deadline_time=ACE_Time_Value::max_time, ACE_Allocator *data_block_allocator=0, ACE_Allocator *message_block_allocator=0)
 ACE_Message_Block (const ACE_Message_Block &mb, size_t align)
int init (const char *data, size_t size=0)
int init (size_t size, ACE_Message_Type type=MB_DATA, ACE_Message_Block *cont=0, const char *data=0, ACE_Allocator *allocator_strategy=0, ACE_Lock *locking_strategy=0, unsigned long priority=ACE_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_BLOCK_PRIORITY, const ACE_Time_Value &execution_time=ACE_Time_Value::zero, const ACE_Time_Value &deadline_time=ACE_Time_Value::max_time, ACE_Allocator *data_block_allocator=0, ACE_Allocator *message_block_allocator=0)
virtual ~ACE_Message_Block (void)
ACE_Message_Type msg_type (void) const
 Get type of the message.
void msg_type (ACE_Message_Type type)
 Set type of the message.
int is_data_msg (void) const
 Find out what type of message this is.
ACE_Message_Type msg_class (void) const
Message_Flags set_flags (Message_Flags more_flags)
Message_Flags clr_flags (Message_Flags less_flags)
Message_Flags flags (void) const
 Get the current message flags.
Message_Flags set_self_flags (ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags more_flags)
Message_Flags clr_self_flags (ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags less_flags)
Message_Flags self_flags (void) const
 Get the current message flags.
unsigned long msg_priority (void) const
 Get priority of the message.
void msg_priority (unsigned long priority)
 Set priority of the message.
const ACE_Time_Valuemsg_execution_time (void) const
 Get execution time associated with the message.
void msg_execution_time (const ACE_Time_Value &et)
 Set execution time associated with the message.
const ACE_Time_Valuemsg_deadline_time (void) const
 Get absolute time of deadline associated with the message.
void msg_deadline_time (const ACE_Time_Value &dt)
 Set absolute time of deadline associated with the message.
virtual ACE_Message_Blockclone (Message_Flags mask=0) const
virtual ACE_Message_Blockduplicate (void) const
 Return a "shallow" copy that increments our reference count by 1.
virtual ACE_Message_Blockrelease (void)
int copy (const char *buf, size_t n)
int copy (const char *buf)
int crunch (void)
void reset (void)
void access_allocators (ACE_Allocator *&allocator_strategy, ACE_Allocator *&data_block_allocator, ACE_Allocator *&message_block_allocator)
void reset_allocators (ACE_Allocator *allocator_strategy=0, ACE_Allocator *data_block_allocator=0, ACE_Allocator *message_block_allocator=0)
char * base (void) const
 Get message data.
void base (char *data, size_t size, Message_Flags=DONT_DELETE)
 Set message data (doesn't reallocate).
char * end (void) const
 Return a pointer to 1 past the end of the allocated data in a message.
char * mark (void) const
char * rd_ptr (void) const
 Get the read pointer.
void rd_ptr (char *ptr)
 Set the read pointer to ptr.
void rd_ptr (size_t n)
 Set the read pointer ahead n bytes.
char * wr_ptr (void) const
 Get the write pointer.
void wr_ptr (char *ptr)
 Set the write pointer to ptr.
void wr_ptr (size_t n)
ACE_Data_Blockdata_block (void) const
void data_block (ACE_Data_Block *)
ACE_Data_Blockreplace_data_block (ACE_Data_Block *)
ACE_Message_Blockcont (void) const
 Get the continuation field.
void cont (ACE_Message_Block *)
 Set the continuation field.
ACE_Message_Blocknext (void) const
 Get link to next message.
void next (ACE_Message_Block *)
 Set link to next message.
ACE_Message_Blockprev (void) const
 Get link to prev message.
void prev (ACE_Message_Block *)
 Set link to prev message.
ACE_Locklocking_strategy (void)
 Get the locking strategy.
ACE_Locklocking_strategy (ACE_Lock *)
 Set a new locking strategy and return the hold one.
int reference_count (void) const
 Get the current reference count.
void dump (void) const
 Dump the state of an object.
Message length and size operations
Message length is (wr_ptr - rd_ptr).

Message size is capacity of the message, including data outside the [rd_ptr,wr_ptr] range.

size_t length (void) const
 Get the length of the message.
void length (size_t n)
 Set the length of the message.
size_t total_length (void) const
size_t total_size (void) const
void total_size_and_length (size_t &mb_size, size_t &mb_length) const
size_t size (void) const
int size (size_t length)
size_t total_capacity (void) const
size_t capacity (void) const
 Get the number of allocated bytes in the top-level <Message_Block>.
size_t space (void) const

Static Public Member Functions

static ACE_Message_Blockduplicate (const ACE_Message_Block *mb)
static ACE_Message_Blockrelease (ACE_Message_Block *mb)

Public Attributes

 ACE_ALLOC_HOOK_DECLARE
 Declare the dynamic allocation hooks.

Protected Member Functions

 ACE_Message_Block (size_t size, ACE_Message_Type type, ACE_Message_Block *cont, const char *data, ACE_Allocator *allocator_strategy, ACE_Lock *locking_strategy, Message_Flags flags, unsigned long priority, const ACE_Time_Value &execution_time, const ACE_Time_Value &deadline_time, ACE_Data_Block *db, ACE_Allocator *data_block_allocator, ACE_Allocator *message_block_allocator)
 Perform the actual initialization.
int release_i (ACE_Lock *lock)
int init_i (size_t size, ACE_Message_Type type, ACE_Message_Block *cont, const char *data, ACE_Allocator *allocator_strategy, ACE_Lock *locking_strategy, Message_Flags flags, unsigned long priority, const ACE_Time_Value &execution_time, const ACE_Time_Value &deadline_time, ACE_Data_Block *db, ACE_Allocator *data_block_allocator, ACE_Allocator *message_block_allocator)
 Perform the actual initialization.

Protected Attributes

size_t rd_ptr_
 Pointer to beginning of next read.
size_t wr_ptr_
 Pointer to beginning of next write.
unsigned long priority_
 Priority of message.
ACE_Message_Blockcont_
 Pointer to next message block in the chain.
ACE_Message_Blocknext_
 Pointer to next message in the list.
ACE_Message_Blockprev_
 Pointer to previous message in the list.
ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags flags_
 Misc flags (e.g., DONT_DELETE and USER_FLAGS).
ACE_Data_Blockdata_block_
ACE_Allocatormessage_block_allocator_

Private Member Functions

ACE_Message_Blockoperator= (const ACE_Message_Block &)
 ACE_Message_Block (const ACE_Message_Block &)

Friends

class ACE_Data_Block


Detailed Description

Stores messages for use throughout ACE (particularly in an ACE_Message_Queue).

An ACE_Message_Block is modeled after the message data structures used in System V STREAMS. Its purpose is to enable efficient manipulation of arbitrarily large messages without incurring much memory copying overhead. Here are the main characteristics of an ACE_Message_Block:

See also:
C++NPv1, section 4.2; APG, section 12.3.2.

Member Typedef Documentation

typedef unsigned long ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags


Member Enumeration Documentation

anonymous enum

Enumerator:
MB_DATA  Undifferentiated data message.
MB_PROTO  Undifferentiated protocol control.
MB_BREAK  Line break (regular and priority).
MB_PASSFP  Pass file pointer.
MB_EVENT  Post an event to an event queue.
MB_SIG  Generate process signal.
MB_IOCTL  ioctl; set/get params
MB_SETOPTS  Set various stream head options.
MB_IOCACK  Acknowledge ioctl (high priority; go to head of queue).
MB_IOCNAK  Negative ioctl acknowledge.
MB_PCPROTO  Priority proto message.
MB_PCSIG  Generate process signal.
MB_READ  Generate read notification.
MB_FLUSH  Flush your queues.
MB_STOP  Stop transmission immediately.
MB_START  Restart transmission after stop.
MB_HANGUP  Line disconnect.
MB_ERROR  Fatal error used to set u.u_error.
MB_PCEVENT  Post an event to an event queue.
MB_NORMAL  Normal priority message mask.
MB_PRIORITY  High priority control message mask.
MB_USER  User-defined message mask.

anonymous enum

Enumerator:
DONT_DELETE  Don't delete the data on exit since we don't own it.
USER_FLAGS  user defined flags start here


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Block ( ACE_Allocator message_block_allocator = 0  ) 

Create an empty message.

ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Block ( ACE_Data_Block data_block,
ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags  flags = 0,
ACE_Allocator message_block_allocator = 0 
)

Create an ACE_Message_Block that owns the specified ACE_Data_Block without copying it. If the flags is set to DONT_DELETE we don't delete the ACE_Data_Block. It is left to the client's responsibility to take care of the memory allocated for the data_block

ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Block ( const char *  data,
size_t  size = 0,
unsigned long  priority = ACE_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_BLOCK_PRIORITY 
)

Create an ACE_Message_Block that refers to data without copying it. The data memory will not be freed when this block is destroyed; memory management of data is left to the caller. Note that the size of the new ACE_Message_Block will be size, but the length will be 0 until the write pointer is changed.

ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Block ( size_t  size,
ACE_Message_Type  type = MB_DATA,
ACE_Message_Block cont = 0,
const char *  data = 0,
ACE_Allocator allocator_strategy = 0,
ACE_Lock locking_strategy = 0,
unsigned long  priority = ACE_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_BLOCK_PRIORITY,
const ACE_Time_Value execution_time = ACE_Time_Value::zero,
const ACE_Time_Value deadline_time = ACE_Time_Value::max_time,
ACE_Allocator data_block_allocator = 0,
ACE_Allocator message_block_allocator = 0 
)

Create an initialized message of type type containing size bytes. The cont argument initializes the continuation field in the ACE_Message_Block. If data == 0 then this block allocates and owns the block's memory, using allocator to get the data if it's non-0. If data != 0 then this block refers to that memory until this this block ceases to exist; this object will not free data on destruction. If locking_strategy is non-0 then this is used to protect regions of code that access shared state (e.g., reference counting) from race conditions. Note that the size of the ACE_Message_Block will be size, but the length will be 0 until the write pointer is set. The data_block_allocator is used to allocate the data blocks while the allocator_strategy is used to allocate the buffers contained by those. The message_block_allocator is used to allocate new ACE_Message_Block objects when the duplicate() method is called. If a message_block_allocator is given, this ACE_Message_Block and future ACE_Message_Block objects created by duplicate() will be freed using this allocator when they are released.

Note:
If you use this allocator, the ACE_Message_Block you created should have been created using this allocator because it will be released to the same allocator.

ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Block ( const ACE_Message_Block mb,
size_t  align 
)

A copy constructor. This constructor is a bit different. If the incoming Message Block has a data block from the stack this constructor does a deep copy ie. allocates a new data block on the heap and does a copy of the data from the incoming message block. As a final note, the alignment information is used to align the data block if it is created afresh. If the incoming mb has a data block has a data block allocated from the heap, then this constructor just duplicates (ie. a shallow copy) the data block of the incoming mb.

ACE_Message_Block::~ACE_Message_Block ( void   )  [virtual]

Delete all the resources held in the message.

Note that <release()> is designed to release the continuation chain; the destructor is not. See <release()> for details.

ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Block ( size_t  size,
ACE_Message_Type  type,
ACE_Message_Block cont,
const char *  data,
ACE_Allocator allocator_strategy,
ACE_Lock locking_strategy,
Message_Flags  flags,
unsigned long  priority,
const ACE_Time_Value execution_time,
const ACE_Time_Value deadline_time,
ACE_Data_Block db,
ACE_Allocator data_block_allocator,
ACE_Allocator message_block_allocator 
) [protected]

Perform the actual initialization.

ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Block ( const ACE_Message_Block  )  [private]


Member Function Documentation

int ACE_Message_Block::init ( const char *  data,
size_t  size = 0 
)

Create a Message Block that assumes it has ownership of data, but in reality it doesnt (i.e., cannot delete it since it didn't malloc it!). Note that the size of the Message_Block will be size, but the length will be 0 until <wr_ptr> is set.

int ACE_Message_Block::init ( size_t  size,
ACE_Message_Type  type = MB_DATA,
ACE_Message_Block cont = 0,
const char *  data = 0,
ACE_Allocator allocator_strategy = 0,
ACE_Lock locking_strategy = 0,
unsigned long  priority = ACE_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_BLOCK_PRIORITY,
const ACE_Time_Value execution_time = ACE_Time_Value::zero,
const ACE_Time_Value deadline_time = ACE_Time_Value::max_time,
ACE_Allocator data_block_allocator = 0,
ACE_Allocator message_block_allocator = 0 
)

Create an initialized message of type type containing size bytes. The cont argument initializes the continuation field in the <Message_Block>. If data == 0 then we create and own the data, using allocator_strategy to get the data if it's non-0. If data != 0 we assume that we have ownership of the data till this object ceases to exist (and don't delete it during destruction). If locking_strategy is non-0 then this is used to protect regions of code that access shared state (e.g., reference counting) from race conditions. Note that the size of the <Message_Block> will be size, but the length will be 0 until <wr_ptr> is set. The data_block_allocator is use to allocate the data blocks while the allocator_strategy is used to allocate the buffers contained by those.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Type ACE_Message_Block::msg_type ( void   )  const

Get type of the message.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::msg_type ( ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Type  t  ) 

Set type of the message.

ACE_INLINE int ACE_Message_Block::is_data_msg ( void   )  const

Find out what type of message this is.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block::ACE_Message_Type ACE_Message_Block::msg_class ( void   )  const

Find out what class of message this is (there are two classes, normal messages and high-priority messages).

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags ACE_Message_Block::set_flags ( ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags  more_flags  ) 

Bitwise-or the more_flags into the existing message flags and return the new value.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags ACE_Message_Block::clr_flags ( ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags  less_flags  ) 

Clear the message flag bits specified in less_flags and return the new value.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags ACE_Message_Block::flags ( void   )  const

Get the current message flags.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags ACE_Message_Block::set_self_flags ( ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags  more_flags  ) 

Bitwise-or the more_flags into the existing message flags and return the new value.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags ACE_Message_Block::clr_self_flags ( ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags  less_flags  ) 

Clear the message flag bits specified in less_flags and return the new value.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block::Message_Flags ACE_Message_Block::self_flags ( void   )  const

Get the current message flags.

ACE_INLINE unsigned long ACE_Message_Block::msg_priority ( void   )  const

Get priority of the message.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::msg_priority ( unsigned long  priority  ) 

Set priority of the message.

ACE_INLINE const ACE_Time_Value & ACE_Message_Block::msg_execution_time ( void   )  const

Get execution time associated with the message.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::msg_execution_time ( const ACE_Time_Value et  ) 

Set execution time associated with the message.

ACE_INLINE const ACE_Time_Value & ACE_Message_Block::msg_deadline_time ( void   )  const

Get absolute time of deadline associated with the message.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::msg_deadline_time ( const ACE_Time_Value dt  ) 

Set absolute time of deadline associated with the message.

ACE_Message_Block * ACE_Message_Block::clone ( Message_Flags  mask = 0  )  const [virtual]

Return an exact "deep copy" of the message, i.e., create fresh new copies of all the Data_Blocks and continuations.

ACE_Message_Block * ACE_Message_Block::duplicate ( void   )  const [virtual]

Return a "shallow" copy that increments our reference count by 1.

ACE_Message_Block * ACE_Message_Block::duplicate ( const ACE_Message_Block mb  )  [static]

Return a "shallow" copy that increments our reference count by 1. This is similar to CORBA's <_duplicate> method, which is useful if you want to eliminate lots of checks for NULL mb pointers before calling <_duplicate> on them.

ACE_Message_Block * ACE_Message_Block::release ( void   )  [virtual]

Decrease the shared ACE_Data_Block's reference count by 1. If the ACE_Data_Block's reference count goes to 0, it is deleted. In all cases, this ACE_Message_Block is deleted - it must have come from the heap, or there will be trouble.

release() is designed to release the continuation chain; the destructor is not. If we make the destructor release the continuation chain by calling release() or delete on the message blocks in the continuation chain, the following code will not work since the message block in the continuation chain is not off the heap:

ACE_Message_Block mb1 (1024); ACE_Message_Block mb2 (1024);

mb1.cont (&mb2);

And hence, call release() on a dynamically allocated message block. This will release all the message blocks in the continuation chain. If you call delete or let the message block fall off the stack, cleanup of the message blocks in the continuation chain becomes the responsibility of the user.

Return values:
0,always,and the object this method was invoked on is no longer valid.

ACE_Message_Block * ACE_Message_Block::release ( ACE_Message_Block mb  )  [static]

This behaves like the non-static method <release>, except that it checks if mb is 0. This is similar to <CORBA::release>, which is useful if you want to eliminate lots of checks for NULL pointers before calling <release> on them. Returns mb.

int ACE_Message_Block::copy ( const char *  buf,
size_t  n 
)

Copies data into this ACE_Message_Block. Data is copied into the block starting at the current write pointer.

Parameters:
buf Pointer to the buffer to copy from.
n The number of bytes to copy.
Return values:
0 on success; the write pointer is advanced by
  • n.
-1 if the amount of free space following the write pointer in the block is less than
  • n. Free space can be checked by calling space().

int ACE_Message_Block::copy ( const char *  buf  ) 

Copies a 0-terminated character string into this ACE_Message_Block. The string is copied into the block starting at the current write pointer. The 0-terminator is included in the copied data.

Parameters:
buf Pointer to the character string to copy from.
Return values:
0 on success; the write pointer is advanced by the string's length, including the 0 terminator.
-1 if the amount of free space following the write pointer in the block is less than required to hold the entire string. Free space can be checked by calling space().

int ACE_Message_Block::crunch ( void   ) 

Normalizes data in the top-level <Message_Block> to align with the base, i.e., it "shifts" the data pointed to by <rd_ptr> down to the <base> and then readjusts <rd_ptr> to point to <base> and <wr_ptr> to point to <base> + the length of the moved data. Returns -1 and does nothing if the <rd_ptr> is > <wr_ptr>, else 0 on success.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::reset ( void   ) 

Resets the Message Block data to contain nothing, i.e., sets the read and write pointers to align with the base.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::access_allocators ( ACE_Allocator *&  allocator_strategy,
ACE_Allocator *&  data_block_allocator,
ACE_Allocator *&  message_block_allocator 
)

Access all the allocators in the message block. @todo: Not sure whether we would need finer control while trying to access allocators ie. a method for every allocator. This method returns the allocators only from the first message block in the chain.

Parameters:
allocator_strategy Strategy used to allocate the underlying buffer
data_block_allocator Strategy used to allocate the underlying data block
message_block_allocator Strategy used to allocate the message block

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::reset_allocators ( ACE_Allocator allocator_strategy = 0,
ACE_Allocator data_block_allocator = 0,
ACE_Allocator message_block_allocator = 0 
)

Reset all the allocators in the message block.

Todo:
Not sure whether we would need finer control while trying to reset allocators ie. a method for every allocator.
This method resets the allocators in all the message blocks in the chain.

ACE_INLINE char * ACE_Message_Block::base ( void   )  const

Get message data.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::base ( char *  data,
size_t  size,
Message_Flags  msg_flags = DONT_DELETE 
)

Set message data (doesn't reallocate).

ACE_INLINE char * ACE_Message_Block::end ( void   )  const

Return a pointer to 1 past the end of the allocated data in a message.

ACE_INLINE char * ACE_Message_Block::mark ( void   )  const

Return a pointer to 1 past the end of the allotted data in a message. Allotted data may be less than allocated data if a value smaller than capacity() to is passed to size().

ACE_INLINE char * ACE_Message_Block::rd_ptr ( void   )  const

Get the read pointer.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::rd_ptr ( char *  ptr  ) 

Set the read pointer to ptr.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::rd_ptr ( size_t  n  ) 

Set the read pointer ahead n bytes.

ACE_INLINE char * ACE_Message_Block::wr_ptr ( void   )  const

Get the write pointer.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::wr_ptr ( char *  ptr  ) 

Set the write pointer to ptr.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::wr_ptr ( size_t  n  ) 

Set the write pointer ahead n bytes. This is used to compute the <length> of a message.

ACE_INLINE size_t ACE_Message_Block::length ( void   )  const

Get the length of the message.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::length ( size_t  n  ) 

Set the length of the message.

size_t ACE_Message_Block::total_length ( void   )  const

Get the length of the <Message_Block>s, including chained <Message_Block>s.

size_t ACE_Message_Block::total_size ( void   )  const

Get the total number of bytes in all <Message_Block>s, including chained <Message_Block>s.

void ACE_Message_Block::total_size_and_length ( size_t &  mb_size,
size_t &  mb_length 
) const

Get the total number of bytes and total length in all <Message_Block>s, including chained <Message_Block>s.

ACE_INLINE size_t ACE_Message_Block::size ( void   )  const

Get the number of bytes in the top-level <Message_Block> (i.e., does not consider the bytes in chained <Message_Block>s).

int ACE_Message_Block::size ( size_t  length  ) 

Set the number of bytes in the top-level <Message_Block>, reallocating space if necessary. However, the <rd_ptr_> and <wr_ptr_> remain at the original offsets into the buffer, even if it is reallocated. Returns 0 if successful, else -1.

size_t ACE_Message_Block::total_capacity ( void   )  const

Get the number of allocated bytes in all <Message_Block>, including chained <Message_Block>s.

ACE_INLINE size_t ACE_Message_Block::capacity ( void   )  const

Get the number of allocated bytes in the top-level <Message_Block>.

ACE_INLINE size_t ACE_Message_Block::space ( void   )  const

Get the number of bytes available after the <wr_ptr_> in the top-level <Message_Block>.

ACE_BEGIN_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL ACE_INLINE ACE_Data_Block * ACE_Message_Block::data_block ( void   )  const

Get a pointer to the data block. Note that the ACE_Message_Block still references the block; this call does not change the reference count.

ACE_BEGIN_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL void ACE_Message_Block::data_block ( ACE_Data_Block db  ) 

Set a new data block pointer. The original ACE_Data_Block is released as a result of this call. If you need to keep the original block, call <replace_data_block> instead. Upon return, this ACE_Message_Block holds a pointer to the new ACE_Data_Block, taking over the reference you held on it prior to the call.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Data_Block * ACE_Message_Block::replace_data_block ( ACE_Data_Block db  ) 

Set a new data block pointer. A pointer to the original ACE_Data_Block is returned, and not released (as it is with <data_block>).

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block * ACE_Message_Block::cont ( void   )  const

Get the continuation field.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::cont ( ACE_Message_Block cont_msg  ) 

Set the continuation field.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block * ACE_Message_Block::next ( void   )  const

Get link to next message.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::next ( ACE_Message_Block next_msg  ) 

Set link to next message.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Message_Block * ACE_Message_Block::prev ( void   )  const

Get link to prev message.

ACE_INLINE void ACE_Message_Block::prev ( ACE_Message_Block next_msg  ) 

Set link to prev message.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Lock * ACE_Message_Block::locking_strategy ( void   ) 

Get the locking strategy.

ACE_INLINE ACE_Lock * ACE_Message_Block::locking_strategy ( ACE_Lock nls  ) 

Set a new locking strategy and return the hold one.

ACE_INLINE int ACE_Message_Block::reference_count ( void   )  const

Get the current reference count.

void ACE_Message_Block::dump ( void   )  const

Dump the state of an object.

int ACE_Message_Block::release_i ( ACE_Lock lock  )  [protected]

Internal release implementation Returns 1 if the data block has to be destroyed.

int ACE_Message_Block::init_i ( size_t  size,
ACE_Message_Type  type,
ACE_Message_Block cont,
const char *  data,
ACE_Allocator allocator_strategy,
ACE_Lock locking_strategy,
Message_Flags  flags,
unsigned long  priority,
const ACE_Time_Value execution_time,
const ACE_Time_Value deadline_time,
ACE_Data_Block db,
ACE_Allocator data_block_allocator,
ACE_Allocator message_block_allocator 
) [protected]

Perform the actual initialization.

ACE_Message_Block & ACE_Message_Block::operator= ( const ACE_Message_Block  )  [private]


Friends And Related Function Documentation

friend class ACE_Data_Block [friend]


Member Data Documentation

Declare the dynamic allocation hooks.

size_t ACE_Message_Block::rd_ptr_ [protected]

Pointer to beginning of next read.

size_t ACE_Message_Block::wr_ptr_ [protected]

Pointer to beginning of next write.

unsigned long ACE_Message_Block::priority_ [protected]

Priority of message.

Pointer to next message block in the chain.

Pointer to next message in the list.

Pointer to previous message in the list.

Misc flags (e.g., DONT_DELETE and USER_FLAGS).

Pointer to the reference counted data structure that contains the actual memory buffer.

The allocator used to destroy ourselves when release is called and create new message blocks on duplicate.


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