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
Rather than mixing `-1` and valid indexes, split out the indication of
whether the type is an array with a length argument from the actual
index of the length argument.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
`-1` isn’t part of `GIArrayType`, so it’s not particularly type safe to
return it from `gi_type_info_get_array_type()`. Instead, make it an
error to call that function on a type which isn’t an array type.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Return information about whether the type is a fixed-size array
separately from the array size, which allows us to use the full `size_t`
for the array size.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
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
Move the SECTION into the struct docs, update the documentation comment
syntax, and add `Since: 2.80` everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
This adds more type safety to libgirepository, and allows
differentiating the `GIBaseInfo` derived types using the type system.
Two new derived types had to be added (previously they were just a
collection of helper methods which worked directly on a `GIBaseInfo` and
didn’t check types): `GICallbackInfo` and `GIUnresolvedInfo`.
Further cleanups and refactoring might be needed on this, but the core
of libgirepository now uses `GTypeInstance` and appears to still work
(it’s difficult to be entirely sure because there are no unit tests
yet).
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
These aren’t needed at the moment, since all the `TypeInfo` structs in
libgirepository are all aliases for each other.
An upcoming commit will change that, however, so we need to be a little
bit stricter about type safety in advance.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Now that libgirepository uses `GI_AVAILABLE_IN_*` macros, that’s what
controls symbol visibility. The `_` prefixes are redundant, and out of
keeping with the rest of GLib.
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
Make sure that each C file in `girepository/` includes its corresponding
header file (if such a file exists).
This ensures that the first declaration the compiler sees for each
function contains the symbol visibility macros. This fixes symbol export
(`dllexport`) on Windows platforms.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
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
