One of the first big changes in this rewrite is changing the Type
object to have separate target_fundamental and target_giname properties,
rather than just being strings. Previously in the scanner, it was
awful because we used heuristics around strings.
The ast.py is refactored so that not everything is a Node - that
was a rather useless abstraction. Now, only things which can have
a GIName are Node. E.g. Type and Field are no longer Node.
More things were merged from glibast.py into ast.py, since it isn't
a very useful split.
transformer.py gains more intelligence and will e.g. turn GLib.List
into a List() object earlier. The namespace processing is a lot
cleaner now; since we parse the included .girs, we know the C
prefix for each namespace, and have functions to parse both
C type names (GtkFooBar) and symbols gtk_foo_bar into their
symbols cleanly. Type resolution is much, much saner because
we know Type(target_giname=Gtk.Foo) maps to the namespace Gtk.
glibtransformer.py now just handles the XML processing from the dump,
and a few miscellaneous things.
The major heavy lifting now lives in primarytransformer.py, which
is a combination of most of annotationparser.py and half of
glibtransformer.py.
annotationparser.py now literally just parses annotations; it's
no longer in the business of e.g. guessing transfer too.
finaltransformer.py is a new file which does post-analysis for
"introspectability" mainly.
girparser.c is fixed for some introspectable=0 processing.
Take a GError * for typelib loading code, validate the header. This
fixes bizarre errors from gjs where g_irepository_require would happily
load old typelibs.
Previously we had both e.g. GI_TYPE_TAG_LONG and GI_TYPE_TAG_INT64,
but in fact the typelib is already machine-specific, so it makes sense
to just encode this as a fixed type. The .gir remains abstract.
We also remove size_t from the typelib; one would never want to treat
it differently than an integer.
time_t is removed as well; while bindings like gjs had special handling
to turn it into e.g. a JS Date object, I don't think we should encourage
people to use these POSIX types in their API. Use GTimeVal or the like
instead.
Because the typelib is now really machine-specific, we need to remove
the -expected.tgirs from git. (We could potentially add a check
which wasn't just a literal diff later)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623774
This patch adds support for instantiable fundamental object types,
which are not GObject based. This is mostly interesting for being
able to support GstMiniObject's which are extensivly used in GStreamer.
Includes a big test case to the Everything module (inspired by
GstMiniObject) which should be used by language bindings who wishes to
test this functionallity.
This patch increases the size of the typelib and breaks compatibility
with older typelibs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568913
* girepository/gitypelib.c: Don't complain about constructors
returning types other than objects or interfaces if the container
type isn't an object or interface itself.
* giscanner/glibtransformer.py: Don't give up parsing a method just
because it's in the GLib namespace.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621069
