Git commit fddc7d90787827d73f6dee9c3b757c090e289d8f by Frederik Gladhorn.
Committed on 07/11/2016 at 22:28.
Pushed by gladhorn into branch 'rempt/impex-refactoring'.

Add toStrongRef to KisWeakPtr

Weak pointers don't hold a strong reference, they may
become nullptr at any time. To use them safely, they always have bo be
converted to a strong reference. Further commits can then slowly move
over to users of weak pointers to first convert them to strong pointers
and introduce a check for nullptr at the same time.

M  +13   -0    libs/global/kis_shared_ptr.h

http://commits.kde.org/krita/fddc7d90787827d73f6dee9c3b757c090e289d8f

diff --git a/libs/global/kis_shared_ptr.h b/libs/global/kis_shared_ptr.h
index 4b35c48..5453bfa 100644
--- a/libs/global/kis_shared_ptr.h
+++ b/libs/global/kis_shared_ptr.h
@@ -408,6 +408,19 @@ public:
 =

         return d && weakReference && isOdd((int)*weakReference);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @brief toStrongRef returns a KisSharedPtr which may be dereferenced.
+     *
+     * Weak pointers should only be used to track ownership but never be u=
sed as pointers.
+     * This has historically not been the case, but in new API this functi=
on should be used
+     * instead of directly using a weak pointer as pointer.
+     * @return a KisSharedPtr, which may be null
+     */
+    inline KisSharedPtr<T> toStrongRef() const {
+        return KisSharedPtr<T>(*this);
+    }
+
 private:
     static const qint32 WEAK_REF =3D 2;
     static inline bool isOdd(const qint32 &x) {