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
It’s actually a factory method rather than a constructor, since
`GIBaseInfo` is abstract, but despite that, changing the name so it sits
inside the `GIBaseInfo` class makes sense. There is no `GIInfo` type.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Since `GITypelib` is exposed in the public libgirepository API, it needs
to be a boxed type. So we either need to add a `copy` method to mirror
the existing `free` method, or switch to refcounting. The latter option
seems better, since a `GITypelib` contains internal state about open
`GModule`s and the semantics for copying that would be potentially
complex.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
This makes them consistent with the other getter methods in
`GIRepository` which return lists/arrays. It’s useful to return the
length, as that means the caller doesn’t have to work it out by
iterating over the entire array.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Otherwise there’s no obvious suitable return value to return when the
union is *not* discriminated.
This is an API break, but libgirepository has not been in a stable
release yet, so that’s fine.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Fix the declaration and documentation of
`gi_object_info_find_method_using_interfaces()` and
`gi_object_info_find_vfunc_using_interfaces()`. The documentation was
wrong when I wrote it: the value returned is the object or interface
which declares the method or vfunc, not the one which implements it.
The returned declarer info may be a `GIObjectInfo` or a
`GIInterfaceInfo`. Since those two types have no subtype relation
between them, the return type has to be changed to `GIBaseInfo`. Using
`GIObjectInfo` would have been fine in girepository-1.0 because all
`*Info` types were aliases of each other — but since the move to
`GTypeInstance` this is no longer true.
A unit test will be in the following commit.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Fixes: #3246
This covers all the API changes from girepository-1.0 to
girepository-2.0 so far.
It was generated by manually looking through the changes in `git diff
af36393e6.. -- girepository/*.h`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
