Plugin question

[bird]

I have an application that has a Singleton that has a NotificationCenter
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class  Messenger
{
public:
   void addObserver(const Poco::AbstractObserver& observer)
   {   
      nc.addObserver(observer);
   }
   void SendMessage()
   {   
      nc.postNotification(new Notification);
   }
private:
   NotificationCenter nc;
};


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And my plugin registers as an Observer on startup
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class View : public SimplePlugin
{

public:
   void Init( Messenger* inst)
   {   
      inst->addObserver(Poco::NObserver
               (*this,&View::HandleMessage));
   }
   void HandleMessage( const Poco::AutoPtr& note )
   {   
   }
};


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And here's the application code
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int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
   std::string path = "../Plugins/SimplePlugin";
   path.append(SharedLibrary::suffix());

   ClassLoader cl;
   cl.loadLibrary(path);
   SimplePlugin* plugin = cl.classFor("View").create();

   {
      SingletonHolder messenger;
      plugin->Init( messenger.get() );
      messenger.get()->SendMessage();

      Thread::sleep(100);   
   }

   delete plugin;
   cl.unloadLibrary(path);
   return 0;
}


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The plugin does get the Notification that's sent but the when the Messenger goes out of scope there's a crash in the NotificationCenter destructor as it deletes the ObserverList.
Can someone explain why that is happening?
I'm a bit of a newbie swimming over his head so I expect it some ignorance on my part but I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks!
-Steve

[guenter]

The Observer template code for your plugin has been instantiated by the compiler in your plugin shared library. When the NotificationCenter removes all its observers, the destructor of every observer instantiation is also called. Unfortunately, at this time, your plugin library containing the destructor code for the observer has already been unloaded, so there's no code for the destructor to call, resulting in the crash. You could do a removeObserver() in your plugin's destructor to avoid this problem.

[bird]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry, it's a bit confusing because for some reason template parameters are being stripped from my example code but the Messenger object is held by the SingletonHolder and therefore is destroyed when the holder leaves it's private scope. So in this case the NotificationCenter is destroyed before the plugin is deleted and the library is unloaded.

I tried a removeObserver() in the plugin destructor and deleted the plugin before the NotificationCenter is detroyed and now a crash occurs in NotificationCenter::removeObserver on the ScopedLock construction. I believe the _mutex is invalid for reasons I don't understand. :~)

-Steve

[bird]

I tried a removeObserver() in the plugin destructor and deleted the plugin before the NotificationCenter? is detroyed and now a crash occurs in NotificationCenter::removeObserver on the ScopedLock? construction. I believe the _mutex is invalid for reasons I don't understand.
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Sorry, that was just due to pilot error. Now the plugin destructor removes the Observer from the NotificationCenter and hasObservers() returns false.

But there's still crashing in the NotificationCenter destructor.

-Steve