MUtilities/include/MUtils/JobObject.h

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///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// MuldeR's Utilities for Qt
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// Copyright (C) 2004-2019 LoRd_MuldeR <MuldeR2@GMX.de>
//
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/**
* @file
* @brief This file contains function for creating and managing job objects
*
* Each instance of MUtils::JobObject represents a job object. Call MUtils::JobObject::addProcessToJob() to add another sub-process to the job object. Call MUtils::JobObject::terminateJob() to terminate *all* sub-processes that currently belong to the job object at once.
*
* Note that all sub-processes that belong to the job object will be terminated when *this* process exits, gracefully or due to a crash. All sub-process belonging to a job object also are terminated when the corresponding MUtils::JobObject instance is destroyed.
*/
#pragma once
#include <MUtils/Global.h>
class QProcess;
namespace MUtils
{
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/**
* @brief This class represents a job object
*
* Call addProcessToJob() to add another sub-process to this job object. Call terminateJob() to terminate all sub-processes that belong to this job object. Note that all sub-processes that belong to this job object will also be terminated when *this* process exits, gracefully or due to a crash.
*
* Also, when the JobObject instance is destroyed, all sub-process that belong to its corresponding job object and that are still running will be terminated!
*/
class MUTILS_API JobObject
{
public:
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/**
* \brief Create a new JobObject instance
*
* Creating a new JobObject instance automatically creates a new job object on the system-level. Check isObjectCreated() to test whether the job object was successfully created or not.
*/
JobObject(void);
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/**
* \brief Destroys the JobObject instance
*
* If the job object still has any running sub-processes left when the corresponding JobObject instance is destroyed, these sub-process are terminated!
*/
~JobObject(void);
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/**
* \brief Test whether job object was created successfully
*
* The job object will be created automatically when a new JobObject instance is created. However, the constructor has **no** to tell whether the job object was created successfully on the system-level. Call this function to test whether the job object has been created.
*
* \return The function returns `true`, if and only if a job object was successfully created; otherwise it returns `false`.
*/
bool isObjectCreated(void);
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/**
* \brief Add a process to the job object
*
* This function adds a another sub-process to the job object that is represented by this JobObject instance. Job object limitations apply to the sub-process a
*
* \param process A read-only pointer to the [QProcess](http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qprocess.html) object that represents the sub-process to be added to the job object. The sub-process must be in the "running" state; otherwise the function will fail.
*
* \return The function returns `true`, if and only if the process was successfully added to the job object; otherwise it returns `false`.
*/
bool addProcessToJob(const QProcess *const process);
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/**
* \brief Terminate all sub-processes of the job object
*
* This function immediately terminates *all* running sub-processes that belong to the job object represented by this JobObject instance at once.
*
* \param exitCode The exit code to be set for the sub-process when they are terminated.
*
* \return The function returns `true`, if the sub-processes were destroyed successfully, even if there were no running sub-process left; otherwise it returns `false`.
*/
bool terminateJob(const quint32 &exitCode);
private:
uintptr_t m_jobPtr;
MUTILS_NO_COPY(JobObject)
};
}