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Early draft on how to persist Presenters
based on #50
Background
Presenters should be able persist their state so they can reuse their state after the process has been killed. Android provides a simple API (
#onSaveInstanceState()) where Bundles can be saved and restored when a new Activity instance gets created (#onCreate(saveInstanceState)). This is already possible with a few lines of code and no further library APIs are required.The onSaveInstanceState solution has some weaknesses:
onSaveInstanceState()got called. The mutated state never gets saved.Bundleis part of the Android SDK and cannot be used in unit tests (only mocked)Solution
As a solution the Presenter gets a
publicmethod to save its current statepersistState(). The state must be returned byTiPresenter#onSavePersistentState(): byte[].persistState()can be called at any time; whenonSaveInstanceStategets called, later or earlier even when no Activity instance is available.This triggers a
TiPresenterSerializerresponsible for the persistence which can be exchanged with other implementations.Unlike
Activity#onCreate()thepersistanceStatewill not be a parameter ofTiPresenter#onCreate(). This would be a breaking API change and doesn't provide any value compared to a methodgetPersistentState(): byte[]The default implementation of
TiPresenterSerializerwill store the state in a single file per Presenter in<appfolder>/cache/TiPresenterStates/. We cannot detect when a state isn't required anymore, therefore we cannot cleanup those files properly. Some other mechanism must be applied to prevent an always increasing cache folder. I recommend a fixed cache size by deleting the oldest states like OkHttp.TODOs
TiBundleand use it instead ofbyte[]returned bygetPersistentState()for an easy way to save primitives by key and automatically write all into onebyte[]. AndroidsBundlethrowsDeadObjectExceptionwhen created after the Activity is destroyed and cannot be used. May be also a problem for #51persistentStateat the first launch of a presenterOpen Questions
Contextand cannot be statically initialized likeTiConfiguration.DEFAULTright now. Maybe initialize it in a ContentProvider? Or set the default implementation from the hostingActivity/PresenterInstructorwhen nothing is defined in config?@vRallev @k0shk0sh please review