Eventually, we want to move to using `GType` directly for everything,
since `GIBaseInfo` and its subclasses are all using `GTypeInstance`.
However, that requires quite a lot of changes and we’re about to hit the
API freeze.
So do the smallest set of changes possible to remove `GIInfoType` and
related functions from the public API, which gives us freedom to make
more changes later without breaking API.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
These follow GObject conventions, using `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST` to
cast to the given type, and potentially performing some runtime checks
of the type instance’s `GType` too.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Fixes: #3216
This means they’re now using the `GType` type system rather than the old
`GIInfoType` type system. Given the preceding few commits, these two
systems should now be equivalent.
This makes the type handling more conventional and hence a bit simpler
for people to use if they have experience with GObject.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3216
This makes `GIBaseInfo` and derived types more consistent with GObject
convention, and thus a bit more comfortable to use.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3216
Rather than mixing `-1` and valid indexes, split out the indication of
whether the type is an array with a length argument from the actual
index of the length argument.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Return information about whether the type is a fixed-size array
separately from the array size, which allows us to use the full `size_t`
for the array size.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Move the SECTION into the struct docs, update the documentation comment
syntax, and add `Since: 2.80` everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
This method doesn’t return a `GType`, so when the code gets ported to
`GTypeInstance` in an upcoming commit, that will become quite confusing.
Rename it to `gi_base_info_get_info_type()` instead.
This introduces no functional changes, but it is an API break.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Rather than a mix of structs being in `GI` and their methods being in
`g_`.
We’ve chosen not to use the `g_` namespace because a number of the
libgirepository class names are quite generic, so we’d end up with
confusing symbols like `GScopeType` and `GArgument`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
The pkg-config file sets the include directory to the level above
`girepository/`, just like with GIO, GObject and GModule.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Helps: #3155
Add the SPDX license runes to all the files which have an obvious
copyright header already. This is a mechanical edit.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Helps: #3155
The introspection API has lived out of tree far too long. It has the
same ABI guarantees as the rest of GLib, so it has no reason to be split
from the main library.
The gobject-introspection project can depend on libgirepository, and the
language bindings can drop the gobject-introspection-1.0 dependency.
