Unlike, say, g_variant_new(), which returns a floating reference.
g_variant_parse() returns a non-floating one, so must always have
g_variant_unref() called on the result.
Slightly expand on the documentation about casting varargs when
constructing GVariants, and link to it from all the functions where it’s
a necessary consideration.
Add an example of passing flags to a ‘t’ type variable (guint64).
Assuming the flags enum does not have many members, the flag variable
will be 32 bits wide, and needs an explicit cast to be passed into
g_variant_new() as a 64-bit value.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712837
This was a feature intended from the very beginning that somehow never
got written. It's a way to replace these sort of error messages out of
the GVariant parser:
1-2,10-15:unable to find a common type
with something in the style of the Vala compiler:
unable to find a common type:
[1, 2, 3, 'str']
^ ^^^^^
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715028
Most GErrors, such as GSomethingError, have a function to get
their quark that looks like g_something_error_quark(),
so bindings (such as gtkmm) would expect GVariantParseError
to have g_variant_parse_error_quark(). Instead this had
g_variant_parser_get_error_quark().
This deprecates the old function and adds the correct one,
making life easier for gtkmm (and maybe others).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708212
Back in the far-off twentieth century, it was normal on unix
workstations for U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT to be drawn as "‛" and for U+0027
APOSTROPHE to be drawn as "’". This led to the convention of using
them as poor-man's ‛smart quotes’ in ASCII-only text.
However, "'" is now universally drawn as a vertical line, and "`" at a
45-degree angle, making them an `odd couple' when used together.
Unfortunately, there are lots of very old strings in glib, and also
lots of new strings in which people have kept up the old tradition,
perhaps entirely unaware that it used to not look stupid.
Fix this by just using 'dumb quotes' everywhere.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700746
Parsing wrongly-typed GVariant text format data is a well-defined
operation and it ought to result in a GError. We do that for most
cases, but 'v' and 'ay' were being treated differently. Fix those as
well.
This allows compilation with clang without errors, even when
-Wformat-nonliteral is active (as long as there are no real cases of
non literal formatting).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691608
There is no chance that an unsigned integer value will be negative after
we do the bounds check that enforces its non-negativity.
Caught by Matthias running Coverity.
Add a new function that allows the parser to check that the current
token is equal to a given string without consuming the token.
Reimplement the 'consume' function in terms of the new function.
Robert Ancell discovered that the GVariant parser messes up pretty badly
when the type of a tuple is specified and the tuple in the text being
parsed has a different number of elements (but otherwise matching child
types).
Check that we have the expected number of elements.
Closes#644786.
- add G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING, _BYTESTRING_ARRAY, _STRING_ARRAY
- remove g_variant_{new,get}_byte_array functions
- add g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring{,_array} functions
- remove undocumented support for deserialising arrays of objectpaths
or signature strngs using g_variant_get_strv()
- add and document new format strings '^ay', '^&ay', '^aay' and '^a&ay'
- update GApplication to use the new API
- update GSettings binding code to use the new API
- add tests
Take advantage of our knowledge that GVariant strings are always valid
utf8 when printing and parsing:
- allow valid printing unicode characters to pass through unescaped
- escape non-printing characters using \uxxxx or \Uxxxxxxxx format
- do the same in the parser
- update existing test cases to use utf8, add a new test case
