[flutter_inappwebview] Fix SIGTRAP on TV app teardown - #1100
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- Fix a SIGTRAP/SIGSEGV crash during app teardown on TV targets: ewk_init()/ewk_shutdown() were both commented out, but chromium-efl requires them to be called exactly once per process.
- Add WebView::InitializeEngine()/ShutdownEngine(), called from the plugin's constructor/destructor. ShutdownEngine() waits (bounded, 2s) for all WebView instances to be disposed first, since ewk_shutdown() fatally CHECKs if any Ewk_View is still alive.
ewk_init() and ewk_shutdown() were both commented out, guessing that OS-level EFL init and SetArguments() made ewk_init() unnecessary. In practice chromium-efl needs ewk_init()/ewk_shutdown() called exactly once per process: without ewk_init(), some engine state assumed initialized elsewhere is never set up, and on TV targets this surfaces as a SIGTRAP/SIGSEGV during app teardown. Call ewk_init() once from the plugin's constructor and ewk_shutdown() once from its destructor, via new WebView::InitializeEngine()/ShutdownEngine() static helpers. ShutdownEngine() waits (bounded, 2s) for the live WebView instance set to drain first, since ewk_shutdown() fatally CHECKs if any Ewk_View is still alive; normal teardown order (platform views destroyed before the plugin) already guarantees this, so the wait is defensive only. Verified with 3 clean drive runs each on the TV emulator and a real TV device, with no crash and no crash dumps.
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| if (g_get_monotonic_time() >= deadline) { | ||
| LOG_WARN( | ||
| "ShutdownEngine: WebView instance(s) still alive past the " | ||
| "deadline; calling ewk_shutdown() anyway."); | ||
| break; |
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When a platform view is still registered after this deadline—for example, if plugin teardown begins before its platform-view teardown can run—the loop merely logs and then reaches ewk_shutdown() with a live Ewk_View. The comment immediately above documents that this condition fatally CHECKs with SIGTRAP, so this fallback deterministically reproduces the crash it is intended to prevent; teardown must either dispose/flush the remaining views or skip shutdown rather than continuing.
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| cookie_channel) | ||
| : manager_channel_(std::move(manager_channel)), | ||
| cookie_channel_(std::move(cookie_channel)) { | ||
| WebView::InitializeEngine(); |
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When a Flutter engine is destroyed and recreated in the same process, each new plugin instance calls ewk_init() and the previous instance has already called ewk_shutdown(). This is a per-plugin lifecycle rather than the promised process-wide once-only lifecycle, and the existing EWK constraint described by this change says reinitialization after shutdown triggers SIGTRAP; use process-wide ownership/once semantics instead of pairing the calls with every plugin instance.
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