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<concept id="GUID-B1D5B680-00E3-5702-985A-94256180E2D8" xml:lang="en"><title>Automatic

Resource Management</title><shortdesc>Automatic resource management is designed to increase the baseline

usability of Symbian platform for Symbian Developers. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<section><title>Need for Automatic resource management</title><p>The use of

the Symbian Cleanup Stack is more difficult, error-prone and requires writing

extra code for explicit cleanup using the CleanupStack. In contrast, the Symbian

C++ class templates for automatic resource management are relatively easier

to use. They provide automatic exception-safe cleanup upon normal or exceptional

exit from a scope, in which case they do not require writing any code for

invoking the cleanup of resources. The resources are automatically cleaned

up by the destructors of the template classes in that case. </p></section>

<section><title>Characteristics of Automatic resource management</title><p>The

following are the characteristics of automatic resource management: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-3A2FF8D0-FB26-5DBB-AD48-5381FF1BF3FA"><p>Improved usability versus

the cleanup stack and the manual authoring of destructors. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-FEA29BB7-4A22-5B38-B729-778799A87C64"><p>Covering data member

management as well as local variable management. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-BB5C0699-F7D3-5137-A486-CD9A635195CB"><p>A comprehensive replacement

for the existing cleanup stack API. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-BD725E12-50A8-5741-BE49-D5054BA78813"><p>Ability to handle C-classes,

R-classes, and custom cleanups. </p> </li>

</ul></section>

<section><title>Template classes</title><p>The following variants of the class

templates for automatic resource management have been provided: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-B08EC001-AECA-50E0-BAA4-5A9779703350"><p> <xref href="GUID-24AEB510-9FB5-318C-BA1E-C6ACA0BB87BC.dita"><apiname> LCleanedup</apiname></xref> class

templates </p> <p>The LCleanedup class templates provided are: </p> <table id="GUID-0D32DEDA-4F92-506E-8335-A0C182ECD7AD">

<tgroup cols="2"><colspec colname="col0"/><colspec colname="col1"/>

<thead>

<row>

<entry>Templates</entry>

<entry>Description</entry>

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-BD4E0CC4-75A2-306D-A860-06B4138F86EB.dita"><apiname>LCleanedupPtr </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic management of pointers </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-9ECEAE0C-3D5A-3B1F-88DD-28B37CE9950D.dita"><apiname> LCleanedupHandle </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic management of resource handles </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-83938A18-23EF-301A-9D40-C89AEDB5DFF0.dita"><apiname>LCleanedupRef </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic management of object references </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-A7B3BEBB-3805-3149-A9DB-075FFF3DED3F.dita"><apiname>LCleanedupArray </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic management of C++ style arrays </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-E6D04730-8064-3846-99E4-FB638C5EAA65.dita"><apiname>LCleanedupGuard </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic generic cleanup </p> </entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</table> </li>

<li id="GUID-A97A0B3A-A991-5AA2-B501-5D3DA00A3B6D"><p> <xref href="GUID-7AFEC8E9-22D6-3905-81D2-E514FC1779D8.dita"><apiname>LManaged </apiname></xref> class

templates </p> <p>The LManaged class templates provided are: </p> <table id="GUID-49B28928-A504-5931-BBF9-8BDCABD9B380">

<tgroup cols="2"><colspec colname="col0"/><colspec colname="col1"/>

<thead>

<row>

<entry>Templates</entry>

<entry>Description</entry>

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-166B7262-50A5-3C2E-B7DD-3291F96B31AA.dita"><apiname> LManagedPtr </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic management of pointers </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-FCBCB7A9-AF28-3591-A54D-8AF354E01D11.dita"><apiname> LManagedHandle </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic management of resource handles </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-2F473656-DD2D-33A7-8BC8-BA2C3337849C.dita"><apiname> LManagedRef </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic management of object references </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-B0B92876-6BE7-3B34-B19D-4B5E318F7BED.dita"><apiname>LManagedArray </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic management of C++ style arrays </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-577F5B2D-0A1D-31AA-84EB-BE0B39F5A624.dita"><apiname>LManagedGuard </apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides automatic generic cleanup </p> </entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</table> </li>

</ul></section>

<section><title>See Also</title> <p><xref href="GUID-B007634D-4D55-528A-8B85-6120C633AC8B.dita">EUser

High Level Overview</xref>  </p> <p><xref href="GUID-D33EB877-CCCB-527B-8AFC-4A8385C55E78.dita">EUser

High Level Tutorials</xref>  </p> </section>