An updateable_value() may come without source attached. One of the
options how this can happen is if the value sits on a service config.
It's a good option to make the config have some default initialization
for the option, but in this case observe()ing an option by the service
would step on null pointer dereference.
Said that, if a value without source is tried to be observed -- assume
that it's OK, but the value would never change, so a dummy observer is
to be provided.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@scylladb.com>
Instead of lengthy blurbs, switch to single-line, machine-readable
standardized (https://spdx.dev) license identifiers. The Linux kernel
switched long ago, so there is strong precedent.
Three cases are handled: AGPL-only, Apache-only, and dual licensed.
For the latter case, I chose (AGPL-3.0-or-later and Apache-2.0),
reasoning that our changes are extensive enough to apply our license.
The changes we applied mechanically with a script, except to
licenses/README.md.
Closes#9937
std::function's move constructor is not noexcept, so observer's move
constructor and assignment operator also cannot be. Switch to Seastar's
noncopyable_function which provides better guarantees.
Tests: observer_tests (release)
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An observable is used to decouple an information producer from a consumer
(in the same way as a callback), while allowing multiple consumers (called
observers) to coexist and to manage their lifetime separately.
Two classes are introduced:
observable: a producer class; when an observable is invoked all observers
receive the information
observer: a consumer class; receives information from a observable
Modelled after boost::signals2, with the following changes
- all signals return void; information is passed from the producer to
the consumer but not back
- thread-unsafe
- modern C++ without preprocessor hacks
- connection lifetime is always managed rather than leaked by default
- renamed to avoid the funky "slot" name
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