And rename it to `gi_repository_get_shared_libraries()`. Previously it
returned a comma-separated string, which wasn’t particularly typesafe or
machine-friendly. Now it returns the same data as an array.
This is an API break in libgirepository, but since it’s not been in a
stable release yet, that’s fine.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Having it be nullable means the type system forces the caller to check
the result for nullability every time, even though it’s straightforward
for the caller to check the index argument in advance and guarantee a
non-`NULL` result.
Change `gi_repository_get_info()` to never return `NULL` to tidy this
up. This also brings it inline with other `gi_*_get_info()` functions,
which are not nullable.
This is an API break in libgirepository, but since it’s not been in a
stable release yet, that’s fine.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
A few applications such as gnome-music load the GIRepository typelib
and use it to adjust their search paths.
GLib 2.79.x now provides libgirepository-2.0.so.0 (GIRepository-3.0),
but each OS distribution is likely to have a transitional period during
which GLib's libgirepository-2.0.so.0 has become available, but bindings
like PyGI and gjs are still linked to gobject-introspection's
libgirepository-1.0.so.1 (GIRepository-2.0).
During this transitional period, interpreted languages that load the
GIRepository namespace could get the "wrong" version, which will result
in adjusting a search path that will not actually affect the language
binding's typelib lookup, and could also lead to symbol and type-system
conflicts.
We can avoid this collision by making GLib's GIRepository library refuse
to load versions of the GIRepository typelib that are not 3.0, and
similarly making gobject-introspection's GIRepository library refuse to
load typelib versions that are not 2.0. A relatively neat way to achieve
that is to make each version behave as if the other one doesn't exist.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
We used to store the search paths into a GSList but this is not
efficient for various reasons, so replace this with an array so that we
can replace return just a GStrv in the public API.
Review and update the documentation, making sure it’s complete,
formatted in gi-docgen format, and has all appropriate GIR annotations
and `Since:` lines.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Accepting two filenames as a string comma-separated string seems like a
layering violation: this is a public API which could be used in places
other than directly off a set of command line arguments.
Move the command line argument parsing to the command line callback.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
It’s not intended that most people will use this, but it’s going to be
quite useful for adding unit tests — we don’t really want the unit tests
to share global state (a singleton `GIRepository`) between tests.
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
These aren’t needed at the moment, since all the `TypeInfo` structs in
libgirepository are all aliases for each other.
An upcoming commit will change that, however, so we need to be a little
bit stricter about type safety in advance.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Now that libgirepository uses `GI_AVAILABLE_IN_*` macros, that’s what
controls symbol visibility. The `_` prefixes are redundant, and out of
keeping with the rest of GLib.
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
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
