We're in the process or rewriting other tools in Python to reduce the
number of dependencies of GLib.
Additionally, making glib-genmarshal a Python script reduces the
complexity when cross-compiling, as we don't need a native build to
generate the marshallers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784528
Very often when we want to convert a string to number, we assume that
the string contains only a number. We have g_ascii_strto* family of
functions to do the conversion but they are awkward to use - one has
to check if errno is zero, end_ptr is not NULL and *end_ptr points to
the terminating nul and then do the bounds checking. Many projects
need this kind of functionality, so it gets reimplemented all the
time.
This commit adds some replacement functions that convert a string to a
signed or unsigned number that also follows the usual way of error
reporting - returning FALSE on failure and filling an error output
parameter.
Partially based on telepathy-glib’s tp_g_ptr_array_contains(), and a
patch by Xavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.co.uk>.
Test cases included.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698064
It's unnecessary, and only adds visual noise; we have been fairly
inconsistent in the past, but the semi-colon-less version clearly
dominates in the code base.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669355
This is effectively the mc-wait-for-name tool from
telepathy-mission-control; moving it in to gdbus-tool will make it more
widely useful without making people depend on telepathy-mission-control
for no other reason. The code here is reimplemented from scratch to use
GDBus.
It blocks until the specified well-known name is owned by some process
on the bus (which can be the session, system, or any other bus). By
passing --activate, the same (or a different) name can be auto-started
on the bus first.
A timeout can be specified to ensure the process doesn’t block forever.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745971
Add filesystem attribute to propagate time, when the metadata for the file
in "recent:///" was last changed. This attribute is needed for sorting
recent backend files in client applications.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777507
Many UUID users will just need a random string, which can be generated
simply by calling the function g_uuid_string_random().
Based on original patch by
Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639078
There have been some improvements to the tool recently, but it's hard to
know if those are available on a given system unless the tool provides a
--version commandline option.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772269
Add --dependency-file=foo.d option to generate a gcc -M -MF style
dependency file for other build tools. The current output of
--generate-dependencies is only useful for use directly in Makefile
rules, but can't be used in other build systems like that.
The generated dependency file looks like this:
$ glib-compile-resources --sourcedir= test.gresource.xml --dependency-file=-
test.gresource.xml: test1.txt test2.txt test2.txt
test1.txt:
test2.txt:
test2.txt:
Unlike --generate-dependencies, the --dependency-file option can be
used together with other --generate options to create dependencies
as side-effect of generating sources.
Based on a patch by Tim-Philipp Müller in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745754
The changes in this patch, compared to his are to always return
the hash table with file information from parse_resource_file, so
we can use it for dependency output, regardless if generate_dependencies
was TRUE or not.
Add --dependency-file=foo.d option to generate a gcc -M -MF style
dependency file for other build tools. The current output of
--generate-dependencies is only useful for use directly in Makefile
rules, but can't be used in other build systems like that.
The generated dependency file looks like this:
$ glib-compile-resources --sourcedir= test.gresource.xml --dependency-file=-
test.gresource.xml: test1.txt test2.txt test2.txt
test1.txt:
test2.txt:
test2.txt:
Unlike --generate-dependencies, the --dependency-file option can be
used together with other --generate options to create dependencies
as side-effect of generating sources.
Based on a patch by Tim-Philipp Müller.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745754
The macro could be used at initialization time to avoid having an
unitialized builder, especially with g_auto variables.
The macro tries to be a bit more type-safe by making sure that the
variant_type parameter is actually "const GVariantType
*". Unfortunately I have no idea how to make it possible to also pass
a "const gchar *" parameter without warning.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766370
In a vague attempt at ensuring the .stp scripts can be closely
associated with the .so files which they hard-code references to, rename
the scripts so they include the LT version — so that they are the .so
file name plus .stp.
This does not fix the fact that our .stp scripts will not work on
multiarch systems, as they are installed in an architecture-independent
directory (/usr/share/systemtap/tapset). At the moment, it is
recommended that any distribution who package the .stp files should
install them in the architecture-specific subdirectories of this (for
example, /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/x86-64).
A better long-term solution for this is under discussion upstream:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20264https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662802
Add filesystem attribute to detect remote filesystems in order to
replace hardcoded filesystem types in GtkFileSystem. Set this attribute
also for GLocalFile appropriately.
Bump version to 2.49.3, so that early adopters of new API have a version
number to target.
Add a new API to allow clients to register a custom GFile implementation
handling a particular URI scheme.
This can be useful for tests, but also for cases where a different URI
scheme is desired to be used with another custom GFile backend.
As an additional cleanup, we can use this to register the "resource" URI
scheme too.
Based on a patch by Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre@mecheye.net>.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767887
This makes it easier to use GKeyFile from language bindings, and makes
the API more consistent and modern with the new data type available in
GLib.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767880
Nautilus wants to show entries in the sidebar only for removable devices.
It uses currently sort of conditions to determine which devices should be
shown. Those condition fails in some cases unfortunatelly. Lets provide
g_drive_is_removable() which uses udisks Removable property to determine
which devices should be shown. It should return true for all drives with
removable media, or flash media, or drives on usb and firewire buses.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765900
This adds a new --c-generate-autocleanup option to gdbus-codegen
which can be used to instruct gdbus-codegen about what autocleanup
definitions to emit.
Doing this unconditionally was found to interfere with existing
code out in the wild.
The new option takes an argument that can be
none, objects or all; to indicate whether to generate no
autocleanup functions, only do it for object types, or do it
for interface types as well. The default is 'objects', which
matches the unconditional behavior of gdbus-codegen on the 2.48
branch.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763379
Add a new GDtlsConnection interface, plus derived GDtlsClientConnection
and GDtlsServerConnection interfaces, for implementing Datagram TLS
support in glib-networking.
A GDtlsConnection is a GDatagramBased, so may be used as a normal
datagram socket, wrapping all datagrams from a base GDatagramBased in
DTLS segments.
Test cases are included in the implementation in glib-networking.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752240
This example has been causing on-and-off build breaks for quite some
time. In this case, the code for copying the generated content into the
main docs of GIO is causing problems with srcdir != destdir builds (due
to the files also being copied from the read-only srcdir during
distchecks).
We could probably work around this problem yet again, but since there is
no real benefit to having this content included, so let's remove it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734469
Currently the doc is incomplete when builddir!=srcdir
(e.g. debian package) because glibconfig.h is generared from
configure.ac and is thus missing from srcdir. This leads to
missing doc for symbols like G_GINT64_FORMAT.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734469
Add some helpers for builds-checked unsigned integer arithmetic to GLib.
These will be based on compiler intrinsics where they are available,
falling back to standard manual checks otherwise.
The fallback case needs to be implemented as a function (which we do
inline) because we cannot rely on statement expressions. We also
implement the intrinsics case as an inline in order to avoid people
accidentally writing non-portable code which depends on static
evaluation of the builtin.
For now there is only support for addition and multiplication for guint,
guint64 and gsize. It may make sense to add support for subtraction or
for the signed equivalents of those types in the future if we find a use
for that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503096
Change it to a running example of a file viewer application with a file
class and various derived classes and related interfaces. Hopefully the
reader can relate to this a little better than to their maman.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753935
Add string serialisation functions for GNetworkAddress, GSocketAddress,
GUnixSocketAddress, GInetSocketAddress, GNetworkService and
GSocketConnectable. These are intended for use in debug output, not for
serialisation in network or disc protocols.
They are implemented as a new virtual method on GSocketConnectable:
g_socket_connectable_to_string().
GInetSocketAddress and GUnixSocketAddress now implement
GSocketConnectable directly to implement to_string(). Previously they
implemented it via their abstract parent class, GSocketAddress.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737116
GDatagramBased is an interface abstracting datagram-based communications
in the style of the Berkeley sockets API. It may be contrasted to (for
example) GIOStream, which supports only streaming I/O.
GDatagramBased allows socket-like communications to be done through any
object, not just a concrete GSocket (which wraps socket()).
This adds the GDatagramBased interface, and implements it in GSocket.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697907
Remove some outdated references to an old example, and add a row in the
table of steps in object initialization for the GObjectClass.constructed
virtual method.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754855
Add support for receiving multiple messages with a single system call,
using recvmmsg() if available. Otherwise, fall back to looping over
g_socket_receive_message().
This adds new API, g_socket_receive_messages(), and corresponding unit
tests.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751924
This complements the GOutputMessage struct. It will shortly be used for
adding a g_socket_receive_messages() function, but needs to be committed
first to allow some internal refactoring of GSocket.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751924
GListStore already has a g_list_store_insert_sorted function,
which can be used to keep the list sorted according to a fixed
sort function. But if the sort function changes (as e.g. with
sort columns in a list UI), the entire list needs to be
resorted. In that case, you want g_list_store_sort().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754152
• Remove copies of function declarations from the explanation — if
people want those, they can follow links to the reference manual.
• Add markup to make C code more defined.
• Remove use of first person and irrelevant name dropping.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744060
So that first-time users don’t fall into the trap of reading about the
gory memory layout details of GType and GObject when all they wanted to
do was derive a class.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744060
Use G_DECLARE_INTERFACE and G_DEFINE_INTERFACE. Fix a couple of typos.
Add some comments to empty functions to make it obvious they’re
intentionally empty.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744060
Restructure the section of the how-to which covers the header and source
code boilerplate for declaring and defining GObjects to use the new
G_DECLARE_*_TYPE macros. Present both final and derivable types.
Trim various supporting paragraphs.
Rename ‘class functions’ to ‘virtual functions’ to use consistent,
modern terminology.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744060
This is meant for opaque, non-POSIX-like backends to indicate that the
URI is not persistent. Applications should look at
G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_SYMLINK_TARGET for the persistent URI.
Examples of such backends could be a portal for letting sandboxed
applications access the file-system, or a database-backed storage like
Google Drive.
In these cases, the user visible file and folder names are different
from the real identifiers, used by the backend. So, a request to
create google-drive://user@gmail.com/foo/New\ File, would actually
lead to google-drive://user@gmail.com/foo/bar on the server even though
the user visible name is still "New File". Since the server-defined URI
is persistent and sanity-checked by the backend, it is recommended that
applications switch to it as soon as possible. Backends will try to
keep a mapping from "fake" to "real" URIs, but those are only on a
best effort basis. They might not be persistent or have the same
guarantees as the "real" URIs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741602
Make it a little easier to find the GType conventions page, which I
guess should be the canonical guide to how to name things.
This adds a brief mention of the valid characters in a type name to the
conventions page.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743018
This is a binding-friendly version of g_dbus_connection_register_object.
Based on a patch by Martin Pitt and the code of g_bus_watch_name_with_closures.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656325
Add a property to GNetworkMonitor indicating if the network
is metered, e.g. subject to limitations set by service providers.
The default value is FALSE
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750282
Instead of just dropping address types that we're not specifically
handling we return a GNativeSocketAddress which is just a dummy
container for the stuct sockaddr.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750203
This allows the caller to know when a socket has been bound so that
it can for instance set the SO_SENDBUF and SO_RECVBUF socket options
before listen is called
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738207
Fix a few typical problems, and also stop wrapping the inline definition
of g_steal_pointer in parens, since it is not necessary and it confuses
gtk-doc.
This can be used to query whether the task has completed, in the sense
that it has had a result set on it, and has already – or will soon –
invoke its callback function.
Notifications for this property are emitted immediately after the task’s
main callback, in the same main context as that callback. This allows
for multiple bits of code to listen for completion of the GTask, which
opens the door for blocking on cancellation of the GTask and improved
handling of ‘pending’ behaviour.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743636
This is a singleton, but we have a function called _new() to get it.
What's worse is that the documentation makes no mention of this, and
actually specifically says that a new monitor will be created each time.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742599
This is *significantly* more pleasant to use from C (while handling
errors and memory cleanup).
While we're here, change some ugly, leaky code in
tests/desktop-app-info.c to use it, in addition to a test case
in tests/file.c.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661554
g_application_bind_busy_property() had the restriction that only one
property can be bound per object, so that NULL could be used to unbind.
Even though this is enough for most uses, it is a weird API.
Lift that restriction and add an explicit unbind function.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744565
Balancing g_application_{un,}mark_busy() is non-trivial in some cases.
Make it a bit more convenient by allowing to bind multiple boolean
properties (from different objects) to the busy state. As long as these
properties are true, the application is marked as busy.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744565
This is made by doing a build with --rebuild-types option,
then manually remove those functions:
g_win32_input_stream_get_type
g_win32_output_stream_get_type
g_io_extension_get_type
Maybe Makefile.am could remove them automatically so we can
remove gio.types from git and rely on --rebuild-types option?
Add g_list_store_insert_sorted() which takes a GCompareDataFunc to
decide where to insert. This ends up being a very trivial function,
thanks to GSequence.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743927
Add g_auto() and g_autoptr() as helpers for declaring variables with
automatic cleanup.
Add some macros to help types define cleanup functions for themselves.
Going forward it will be an expectation that people use this macro when
creating a new type, even if they do not intend to use the auto-cleanup
functionality for themselves.
These new macros only work on GCC and clang, which is why we resisted
adding them for so long. There exist many people who are only
interested in writing programs for these compilers, however, and a
similar API in libgsystem has proven to be extremely popular, so let's
expose this functionality to an even wider audience.
We ignore deprecation warnings when emitting the free functions, which
seems suspicious. The reason that we do this is not because we want to
call deprecated functions, but just the opposite: sometimes the free
function will be an _unref() function that is only AVAILABLE_IN newer
versions, and these warnings are also implemented as deprecation
warnings.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743640
GListModel is an interface that represents a dynamic list of GObjects.
Also add GListStore, a simple implementation of GListModel that stores
all objects in memory, using a GSequence.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729351
Add G_DECLARE_DERIVABLE_TYPE() and G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE() to allow
skipping almost all of the typical GObject boilerplate code.
These macros make some assumptions about GObject best practice that mean
that they may not be usable with older classes that have to preserve
API/ABI compatibility with a time before these practices existed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389585
Currently the only way to set a state hint on an action is through a
subclass; add a g_simple_action_set_state_hint() method so that this
becomes easier for clients that already use GSimpleAction.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743521
Along the same lines as g_clear_object(), g_set_object() is a
convenience function to update a GObject pointer, handling reference
counting transparently and correctly.
Specifically, it handles the case where a pointer is set to its current
value. If handled naïvely, that could result in the object instance
being finalised. In the following code, that happens when
(my_obj == new_value) and the object has a single reference:
g_clear_object (&my_obj);
my_obj = g_object_ref (new_value);
It also simplifies boilerplate code such as set_property()
implementations, which are otherwise long and boring.
Test cases included.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741589
