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The SB API Coding Rules
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<h1 class ="postheader">SB API Coding Rules</h1>
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<p>The SB APIs constitute the stable C++ API that lldb presents to external clients,
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and which get processed by SWIG to produce the Python bindings to lldb. As such
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it is important that they not suffer from the binary incompatibilities that C++ is
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so susceptible to. We've established a few rules to ensure that this happens.
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<p>The classes in the SB API's are all called SB<SomeName>, where SomeName is in CamelCase
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starting with an upper case letter. The method names are all CamelCase with initial
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capital letter as well.
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<p>All the SB API classes are non-virtual, single inheritance classes. They should only include
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SBDefines.h or other SB headers as needed. There should be no inlined method implementations
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in the header files, they should all be in the implementation files. And there should be no
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direct ivar access.
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<p>You also need to choose the ivars for the class with care, since you can't add or remove ivars
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without breaking binary compatibility. In some cases, the SB class is a thin wrapper around
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an interal lldb_private object. In that case, the class can have a single ivar, which is
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either a pointer, shared_ptr or unique_ptr to the object in the lldb_private API. All the
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lldb_private classes that get used this way are declared as opaque classes in lldb_forward.h,
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which is included in SBDefines.h. So if you need an SB class to wrap an lldb_private class
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that isn't in lldb_forward.h, add it there rather than making a direct opaque declaration in
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the SB classes .h file.
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<p>If the SB Class needs some state of its own, as well as the backing object, don't include that
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as a direct ivar in the SB Class. Instead, make an Impl class in the SB's .cpp file, and then
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make the SB object hold a shared or unique pointer to the Impl object. The theory behind this is
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that if you need more state in the SB object, those needs are likely to change over time,
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and this way the impl class can pick up members without changing the size of the object.
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An example of this is the SBValue class.
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<p>In order to fit into the Python API's, we need to be able to default construct all the SB objects.
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Since the ivars of the classes are all pointers of one sort or other, this can easily be done, but
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it means all the methods must be prepared to handle their opaque implementation pointer being
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empty, and doing something reasonable. We also always have an "IsValid" method on all the SB
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classes to report whether the object is empty or not.
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<p>Another piece of the SB API infrastructure is the Python (or other script interpreter) customization.
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SWIG allows you to add property access, iterators and documentation to classes, but to do that you have to use
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a Swig interface file in place of the .h file. Those files have a different format than a straight C++ header file. These
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files are called SB<ClassName>.i, and live in "scripts/interface". They are constructed by
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starting with the associated .h file, and adding documentation and the Python decorations, etc. We
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do this in a decidedly low-tech way, by maintaining the two files in parallel. That simplifies the
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build process, but it does mean that if you add a method to the C++ API's for an SB class, you have
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to copy the interface to the .i file.
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