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
Most of the code for handling stack-allocated infos was correct, it was
just missing code to initialise the `GTypeInstance` member.
Since `GTypeInstance` isn’t really designed for stack allocation, this
is a little hacky — it requires setting up the member within
`GTypeInstance` manually. It works, though.
The externally visible consequence of this, though, is that
stack-allocated `GIBaseInfo`s now need to be cleared when they’re
finished being used. This allows the `GTypeClass` ref to be dropped.
All users of the stack-allocated APIs in libgirepository will need to
adapt to this change.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Fixes: #3218
These follow GObject conventions, using `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST` to
cast to the given type, and potentially performing some runtime checks
of the type instance’s `GType` too.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Fixes: #3216
Just like is done with `g_object_{ref,unref}()`, make these functions
take a `void*` rather than a `GIBaseInfo*`, since they’ll most likely be
called with a type which is derived from `GIBaseInfo*` rather than a
`GIBaseInfo*` itself.
Add some runtime type checks to make up for lowering the compile time
type safety.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3216
This means they’re now using the `GType` type system rather than the old
`GIInfoType` type system. Given the preceding few commits, these two
systems should now be equivalent.
This makes the type handling more conventional and hence a bit simpler
for people to use if they have experience with GObject.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3216
We used to use unsigned values, while they should be big enough to old
the data we're handling here, it's cleaner and clearer if we use size_t
as type for such values, as it makes straight forward to understand what
a value should contain. It also makes these values more future proof.
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
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
This makes it more conventional for how `GType` code is normally written.
This introduces no functional changes, but it is an API break.
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
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
The pkg-config file sets the include directory to the level above
`girepository/`, just like with GIO, GObject and GModule.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
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
