GObject: change the order of property checks

Change the order of the checks so that we hear about the 'biggest'
problem first.  Also, stop reporting problems after we report the first
one for a particular property.

Add some comments.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666616
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Ryan Lortie 2011-12-20 18:41:03 -05:00
parent 5fb7a8e127
commit d8d78688a8

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@ -1373,6 +1373,56 @@ object_interface_check_properties (gpointer func_data,
continue;
}
/* We do a number of checks on the properties of an interface to
* make sure that all classes implementing the interface are
* overriding the properties in a sane way.
*
* We do the checks in order of importance so that we can give
* more useful error messages first.
*
* First, we check that the implementation doesn't remove the
* basic functionality (readability, writability) advertised by
* the interface. Next, we check that it doesn't introduce
* additional restrictions (such as construct-only). Finally, we
* make sure the types are compatible.
*/
#define SUBSET(a,b,mask) (((a) & ~(b) & (mask)) == 0)
/* If the property on the interface is readable then the
* implementation must be readable. If the interface is writable
* then the implementation must be writable.
*/
if (!SUBSET (pspecs[n]->flags, class_pspec->flags, G_PARAM_READABLE | G_PARAM_WRITABLE))
{
g_critical ("Flags for property '%s' on class '%s' remove functionality compared with the "
"property on interface '%s'\n", pspecs[n]->name,
g_type_name (G_OBJECT_CLASS_TYPE (class)), g_type_name (iface_type));
continue;
}
/* If the property on the interface is writable then we need to
* make sure the implementation doesn't introduce new restrictions
* on that writability (ie: construct-only).
*
* If the interface was not writable to begin with then we don't
* really have any problems here because "writable at construct
* type only" is still more permissive than "read only".
*
* It's questionable if we should have G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT checked
* here....
*/
if (pspecs[n]->flags & G_PARAM_WRITABLE)
{
if (!SUBSET (class_pspec->flags, pspecs[n]->flags, G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT | G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT_ONLY))
{
g_critical ("Flags for property '%s' on class '%s' introduce additional restrictions on "
"writability compared with the property on interface '%s'\n", pspecs[n]->name,
g_type_name (G_OBJECT_CLASS_TYPE (class)), g_type_name (iface_type));
continue;
}
}
#undef SUBSET
/* If the property on the interface is readable then we are
* effectively advertising that reading the property will return a
* value of a specific type. All implementations of the interface
@ -1432,26 +1482,6 @@ object_interface_check_properties (gpointer func_data,
default:
g_assert_not_reached ();
}
#define SUBSET(a,b,mask) (((a) & ~(b) & (mask)) == 0)
/* CONSTRUCT and CONSTRUCT_ONLY add restrictions to writability.
* READABLE and WRITABLE remove restrictions. The implementation
* paramspec must have less restrictive flags.
*/
if (pspecs[n]->flags & G_PARAM_WRITABLE)
{
if (!SUBSET (class_pspec->flags, pspecs[n]->flags, G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT | G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT_ONLY))
g_critical ("Flags for property '%s' on class '%s' introduce additional restrictions on "
"writability compared with the property on interface '%s'\n", pspecs[n]->name,
g_type_name (G_OBJECT_CLASS_TYPE (class)), g_type_name (iface_type));
}
if (!SUBSET (pspecs[n]->flags, class_pspec->flags, G_PARAM_READABLE | G_PARAM_WRITABLE))
g_critical ("Flags for property '%s' on class '%s' remove functionality compared with the "
"property on interface '%s'\n", pspecs[n]->name,
g_type_name (G_OBJECT_CLASS_TYPE (class)), g_type_name (iface_type));
#undef SUBSET
}
g_free (pspecs);