The Architecture of Chromium's Safe Callback Cancellation
Blink28629 Nov 2025

The Architecture of Chromium's Safe Callback Cancellation

The source material provides a comprehensive examination of Chromium's CancelableCallback utility, which was introduced to allow for the safe and explicit cancellation of tasks that have been scheduled to run asynchronously. This mechanism wraps existing callbacks and supplies a handle that, when Cancel() is invoked, prevents the wrapped operation from executing, thereby avoiding potential race conditions or resource leaks. Crucially, the system is implemented using base::WeakPtr internally, where canceling the callback invalidates the weak pointer, causing any outstanding posted task to become a no-op upon firing. However, the system is designed to be sequence-affine, meaning all usage and cancellation must occur on the same thread, directing users who require cross-thread cancellation toward the CancelableTaskTracker instead. Although highly versatile for general asynchronous tasks and timeouts, the documentation explicitly advises developers to generally prefer WeakPtr binding when cancellation can be cleanly tied to the destruction of a specific object.

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