NodeReferenceCount

class NodeReferenceCount

Bases: ReferenceCount

This class specializes ReferenceCount to add an additional counter, called node_ref_count, for the purposes of counting the number of times the object is referenced by a “node”, whatever that may mean in context.

The new methods node_ref() and node_unref() automatically increment and decrement the primary reference count as well. There also exists a NodePointerTo<> class to maintain the node_ref counters automatically.

See also CachedTypedWritableReferenceCount, which is similar in principle, as well as NodeCachedReferenceCount, which combines both of these.

Inheritance diagram

static TypeHandle get_class_type(void)

int get_node_ref_count(void) const

Returns the current reference count.

void node_ref(void) const

Explicitly increments the node reference count and the normal reference count simultaneously.

bool node_unref(void) const

Explicitly decrements the node reference count and the normal reference count simultaneously.

The return value is true if the new reference count is nonzero, false if it is zero.

void node_unref_only(void) const

Decrements the node reference count without affecting the normal reference count. Intended to be called by derived classes only, presumably to reimplement node_unref().

bool test_ref_count_integrity(void) const

Does some easy checks to make sure that the reference count isn’t completely bogus.