想让子view可以设置margin，写继承ViewGroup的自定义View时为啥要重写generateLayoutParams(AttributeSet attrs)

转自：https://www.jianshu.com/p/99c27e2db843

重写generateLayoutParams()方法：

LayoutParams是ViewGroup的一个内部类，它的构造方法：

       public LayoutParams(Context c, AttributeSet attrs) {
            TypedArray a = c.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.ViewGroup_Layout);
            setBaseAttributes(a,
                    R.styleable.ViewGroup_Layout_layout_width,
                    R.styleable.ViewGroup_Layout_layout_height);
            a.recycle();
        }

        public LayoutParams(int width, int height) {
            this.width = width;
            this.height = height;
        }
  
        public LayoutParams(LayoutParams source) {
            this.width = source.width;
            this.height = source.height;
        }

        LayoutParams() {
        }

generateLayoutParams()方法返回的LayoutParams对象正是调用了它的第一个构造方法创建出来的。

接下来我们看看LayoutInflater对象inflate()方法返回View的方法：

public View inflate(@LayoutRes int resource, @Nullable ViewGroup root, boolean attachToRoot) {
        final Resources res = getContext().getResources();
        if (DEBUG) {
            Log.d(TAG, "INFLATING from resource: \"" + res.getResourceName(resource) + "\" ("
                    + Integer.toHexString(resource) + ")");
        }

        final XmlResourceParser parser = res.getLayout(resource);
        try {
            return inflate(parser, root, attachToRoot);
        } finally {
            parser.close();
        }
    }

我们点开inflate(parser, root, attachToRoot)方法往下跟最终会看到下面的代码：

/**
     * Recursive method used to descend down the xml hierarchy and instantiate
     * views, instantiate their children, and then call onFinishInflate().
     * <p>
     * <strong>Note:</strong> Default visibility so the BridgeInflater can
     * override it.
     */
    void rInflate(XmlPullParser parser, View parent, Context context,
            AttributeSet attrs, boolean finishInflate) throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {

        final int depth = parser.getDepth();
        int type;
        boolean pendingRequestFocus = false;

        while (((type = parser.next()) != XmlPullParser.END_TAG ||
                parser.getDepth() > depth) && type != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {

            if (type != XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
                continue;
            }

            final String name = parser.getName();

            if (TAG_REQUEST_FOCUS.equals(name)) {
                pendingRequestFocus = true;
                consumeChildElements(parser);
            } else if (TAG_TAG.equals(name)) {
                parseViewTag(parser, parent, attrs);
            } else if (TAG_INCLUDE.equals(name)) {
                if (parser.getDepth() == 0) {
                    throw new InflateException("<include /> cannot be the root element");
                }
                parseInclude(parser, context, parent, attrs);
            } else if (TAG_MERGE.equals(name)) {
                throw new InflateException("<merge /> must be the root element");
            } else {
                final View view = createViewFromTag(parent, name, context, attrs);
                final ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) parent;
                final ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = viewGroup.generateLayoutParams(attrs);
                rInflateChildren(parser, view, attrs, true);
                viewGroup.addView(view, params);
            }
        }

        if (pendingRequestFocus) {
            parent.restoreDefaultFocus();
        }

        if (finishInflate) {
            parent.onFinishInflate();
        }
    }

从上面代码我们可以看出，在xml布局被解析成View对象的过程中，viewGroup.addView(view, params)传入的params就是通过viewGroup.generateLayoutParams(attrs)获得的，参数attrs里包装的就是这个view在xml中的属性，所以如果我们不重写generateLayoutParams()方法，那这个viewGroup里的子view就不支持margin设置了。

补充：
看下addView()方法源码：

public void addView(View child, int index) {
        if (child == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot add a null child view to a ViewGroup");
        }
        LayoutParams params = child.getLayoutParams();
        if (params == null) {
            params = generateDefaultLayoutParams();
            if (params == null) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("generateDefaultLayoutParams() cannot return null");
            }
        }
        addView(child, index, params);
    }

看下ViewGroup的generateDefaultLayoutParams()方法源码：

 protected LayoutParams generateDefaultLayoutParams() {
        return new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
    }

从源码可以看出，当我们在代码中addView时，若子view没有LayoutParams，会通过generateDefaultLayoutParams()方法返回，而此方法ViewGroup返回的是LayoutParams对象。所以，为了能让子View设置margin，我们写继承VIewGroup的自定义view时最好也要复写generateDefaultLayoutParams()方法。

最后，我们在addViewInner()方法源码：

private void addViewInner(View child, int index, LayoutParams params,
            boolean preventRequestLayout) {

        if (mTransition != null) {
            // Don't prevent other add transitions from completing, but cancel remove
            // transitions to let them complete the process before we add to the container
            mTransition.cancel(LayoutTransition.DISAPPEARING);
        }

        if (child.getParent() != null) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("The specified child already has a parent. " +
                    "You must call removeView() on the child's parent first.");
        }

        if (mTransition != null) {
            mTransition.addChild(this, child);
        }

        if (!checkLayoutParams(params)) {
            params = generateLayoutParams(params);
        }

checkLayoutParams()方法源码：

protected boolean checkLayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams p) {
        return  p != null;
    }

checkLayoutParams和generateLayoutParams(params)这是啥意思呢
其实这是检查你的params是否是正确的，当然子类可以复写这两个条件,一般来说，checkLayoutParamsl里条件是p!=null而且不是你的自定义viewGroup的定义的layoutParams的子类，这样父view可以帮你生成一个符合其viewGroup的params，具体例子请看LinearLayout如何重写这些方法：

  /**
    xml生成
     */
@Override
    public LayoutParams generateLayoutParams(AttributeSet attrs) {
        return new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(getContext(), attrs);
    }

    /**
    生成默认的
     */
    @Override
    protected LayoutParams generateDefaultLayoutParams() {
        if (mOrientation == HORIZONTAL) {
            return new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        } else if (mOrientation == VERTICAL) {
            return new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        }
        return null;
    }
  /**
    addview时params搞错了，纠错
     */
    @Override
    protected LayoutParams generateLayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams lp) {
        if (sPreserveMarginParamsInLayoutParamConversion) {
            if (lp instanceof LayoutParams) {
                return new LayoutParams((LayoutParams) lp);
            } else if (lp instanceof MarginLayoutParams) {
                return new LayoutParams((MarginLayoutParams) lp);
            }
        }
        return new LayoutParams(lp);
    }


    // Override to allow type-checking of LayoutParams.
   //查看params类型是否正确
    @Override
    protected boolean checkLayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams p) {
        return p instanceof LinearLayout.LayoutParams;
    }

其中，LinearLayout.LayoutParams是继承自ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams的：