We're using Meson for GLib itself, and we recommend people to use it
for their own projects, so it would be good to have our documentation
present examples on how to use Meson with our tools.
We're using Meson for GLib itself, and we recommend people to use it
for their own projects, so it would be good to have our documentation
present examples on how to use Meson with our tools.
Let's move the template example into its own section while we're at it,
since it's referenced by both Meson and Autotools examples.
Fixes: #1783
The relevant parts of the generated example documentation are already
`xi:include`d into the `migrating-gdbus.xml` page, so are turned into
HTML there. Installing them separately means they also get installed
into `/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gdbus-object-manager-example/`, which
seems redundant.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
This reverts commit b6d8efbebc.
This GLib API is good, but the implentation is not ready, so there's no
reason to commit to the API in GLib 2.64. We can reland again when the
implementation is ready.
There are three problems: (a) The glib-networking implementation normally
works, but the test has been broken for a long time. I'm not comfortable
with adding a major new feature without a working test. This is
glib-networking#104. (b) The WebKit implementation never landed. There
is a working patch, but it hasn't been accepted upstream yet. This API
isn't needed in GLib until WebKit is ready to start using it.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200805. (c) Similarly, even if
the WebKit API was ready, that itself isn't useful until an application
is ready to start using it, and the Epiphany level work never happened.
Let's try again for GLib 2.66. Reverting this commit now just means we
gain another six months before committing to the API forever. No reason
to keep this in GLib 2.64 when nothing is using it yet.
Now that we require Meson 0.52 to build the doc, we can also pull
gtk-doc as subproject when missing from the system. This requires
to pull gtk-doc master because needed changes there haven't been release
yet.
This has the side effect of always rebuilding the doc at each build when
gtk_doc option is enabled (not by default). Most importantly, this will
enable doc check on our CI.
This reverts commit 398c048c66.
It got removed because it used to cause build issues, but now that we
have a CI let's hope it won't be a problem any more.
This complements the `--glib-min-required` argument, just like the
`GLIB_MIN_REQUIRED` and `GLIB_MAX_ALLOWED` preprocessor defines which
control access to APIs in C.
Currently, it doesn’t affect code generation at all. When we next change
code generation, we will need to gate any new API usage on this
argument.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Fixes: #1993
This makes it consistent with the `GLIB_MIN_REQUIRED` defines which are
used for API stability/versioning in C code.
It doesn’t otherwise change the behaviour of the `--glib-min-version`
argument.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #1993
This adds support for specifying multiple directories in the
GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR environment variable by separating the values
using G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S (colon on UNIX-like systems).
While programs could already register multiple custom GSettings schema
directories, it was not possible to achieve the same without writing
custom code, e.g. when using the gsettings command line tool.
Fixes#1998.
Currently the code generated by gdbus-codegen uses
G_DBUS_CALL_FLAGS_NONE in its D-Bus calls, which occur for each method
defined by the input XML, and for proxy_set_property functions. This
means that if the daemon which implements the methods checks for
G_DBUS_FLAGS_ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION and only does interactive
authorization if that flag is present, users of the generated code have
no way to cause the daemon to use interactive authorization (e.g. polkit
dialogs).
If we simply changed the generated code to always use
G_DBUS_FLAGS_ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION, its users would have no
way to disallow interactive authorization (except for manually calling
the D-Bus method themselves).
So instead, this commit adds a GDBusCallFlags argument to method call
functions. Since this is an API break which will require changes in
projects using gdbus-codegen code, the change is conditional on the
command line argument --glib-min-version having the value 2.64 or
higher.
The impetus for this change is that I'm changing accountsservice to
properly respect G_DBUS_FLAGS_ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION, and
libaccountsservice uses generated code for D-Bus method calls. So
these changes will allow libaccountsservice to continue allowing
interactive authorization, and avoid breaking any users of it which
expect that. See
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/merge_requests/46
It might make sense to also let GDBusCallFlags be specified for property
set operations, but that is not needed in the case of accountsservice,
and would require significant work and breaking API in multiple places.
Similarly, the generated code currently hard codes -1 as the timeout
value when calling g_dbus_proxy_call*(). Add a timeout_msec argument so
the user of the generated code can specify the timeout as well.
Also, test this new API. In gio/tests/codegen.py we test that the new
arguments are generated if and only of --glib-min-version is used with a
value greater than or equal to 2.64, and in gio/tests/meson.build we
test that the generated code with the new API can be linked against.
The test_unix_fd_list() test also needed modification to continue
working now that we're using gdbus-test-codegen.c with code generated
with --glib-min-version=2.64 in one test.
Finally, update the docs for gdbus-codegen to explain the effect of
using --glib-min-version 2.64, both from this commit and from
"gdbus-codegen: Emit GUnixFDLists if an arg has type `h` w/
min-version".
This reverts commit 398c048c66.
It got removed because it used to cause build issues, but now that we
have a CI let's hope it won't be a problem any more.
This can be used by callers to opt-in to backwards-incompatible changes
to the behaviour or output of `gdbus-codegen` in future. This commit
doesn’t introduce any such changes, though.
Documentation and unit tests included.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #1726
This is a convenience wrapper around getpwnam_r() which handles all the
memory allocation faff.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #1687
Although not quite as often-occurring, this should help with constructs
like this:
if (list)
{
g_list_free_full (list, foo);
list = NULL;
}
Closes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1943
Tools like this should be configurable in a cross or native file. In
particular, if we are cross-compiling (with an executable wrapper like
qemu-arm), the build system ld is not necessarily able to manipulate
host system objects.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
This is like `GMutexLocker`, in that if you are able to use
`g_autoptr()`, it makes popping a `GMainContext` off the thread-default
main context stack easier when exiting a function.
A few uses of `G_GNUC_{BEGIN,END}_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS` are needed to
avoid warnings when building apps against GLib with
`GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED < GLIB_VERSION_2_64`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
In many places the pattern
static gboolean warned_once = FALSE;
if (!warned_once)
{
g_warning ("This and that");
warned_once = TRUE;
}
is used to not spam the same warning message over and over again. Add a
helper in glib for this, allowing the above statement to be changed to
g_warning_once ("This and that");
This sets the `G_FILE_COPY_DEFAULT_PERMS` flag on the operation,
creating the copied file with default permissions rather than the same
permissions as the source file.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Fixes: #174
Currently, there is no quick way to find whether and element is already
part of a list store, except for manually writing a for-loop and calling
`g_list_model_get_item()` and breaking when you find the item.
This is mostly just a small API addition to support this use case.
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1011
Add the private members referred to in the property setting/getting
example, and a finalize function for them, to make the tutorial code
more self-contained.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #1858
The class has used `G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE` for a while now, so doesn’t
have a `priv` struct. Private members are declared inline.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Fixes: #1858
This means that if you compile with `-Wswitch-enum`, the compiler will
warn you about properties which you’ve forgotten to handle in
`set_property()` or `get_property()`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #1858
These are alternatives to g_file_info_{get,set}_modification_time(),
which will soon be deprecated due to using the deprecated GTimeVal
type, which is not year 2038 safe.
The new APIs take a GDateTime instead.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #1438
This is a simple wrapper around g_date_time_format_iso8601() which
always produces ISO 8601 dates, without people having to remember the
format string for them (and with the convenience of terminating UTC
dates with ‘Z’ rather than ‘+00’).
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #1438
Commit 8cc92bcca ("meson: Turn selinux into a meson feature and make it
auto by default") update the selinux option to be a feature with
instead of a boolean. Update the documentation to reflect this.
Closes: #1823
example lists [(1, 2), (3, 4.0)], but mentions numbers
1 and 4 being parsed as integrers, this seems wrong as
4.0 its explicitly parsed as double.
Signed-off-by: Simental Magana, Marcos <marcos.simental.magana@intel.com>
The `gio move` tool has plenty of options, which are listed by
`gio help move`, however, the `man gio` page doesn't mention them.
Let's add these missing options to the man page as well.
Queries the charset used by the associated console, which does not
necessarily match the charset of the current locale as returned by
g_get_charset.
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1270
This is a new function along the same lines as g_test_bug(): to allow
developers to annotate unit tests with information about the test (what
it tests, how it tests it) for future developers to read and learn from.
It will also output this summary as a comment in the test’s TAP output,
which might clarify test results.
Includes a unit test.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Fixes: #1450
It allows to disconnect a signal handler from GObject instance and at the same
time to nullify the signal handler.
Provided also a macro for handler type conversion.
Add warnings about their deprecation everywhere. The tools will continue
to work until we break API, but will be less well maintained. You should
use TAP for communicating test results to the test harness provided by
your build system or CI system instead.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Fixes: #1441
This adds two new helpers that allow for inserting pre-allocated GList
elements to the queue similar to existing helpers. This may be advantagous
in some situations such as statically allocated GList elements.
Some of these have a negative master/slave connotation, and they add no
value. Change or drop them.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
dep-list.c isn’t generated, but contains non-documentation gtk-doc-style
comments which are probably better left in place, since the code is
partially external to GLib.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Those lists were getting very long. We can’t quite entirely automate the
list generation since Meson doesn’t have a range() function, but we can
at least combine three of them into one.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Install a Vectored Exception Handler[0]. Its sole purpose is to catch
some exceptions (access violations, stack overflows, illegal
instructions and debug breaks - by default, but it can be made to catch
any exception for which a code is known) and run a debugger in response.
This allows W32 glib applications to be run without a debugger,
but at the same time allows a debugger to be attached in case
something happens.
The debugger is run with a new console, unless an environment variable
is set to allow it to inherit the console of the crashing process.
The short list of handleable exceptions is there to ensure that
this handler won't run a debugger to "handle" utility exceptions,
such as the one that is used to communicate thread names to a debugger.
The handler is installed to be called last, and shouldn't interfere
with any user-installed handlers.
There's nothing fancy about the way it runs a debugger (it doesn't even
support unicode in paths), and it deliberately avoids using glib code.
The handler will also print a bit of information about the exception
that it caught, and even more information for well-known exceptions,
such as access violation.
The whole scheme is similar to AeDebug[1] and, in fact, the signal-event
gdb command was originally implemented for this very purpose.
[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/debug/vectored-exception-handling
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/debug/configuring-automatic-debugging
The g_app_info_launch_uris_async() and g_app_info_launch_uris_finish()
functions are crucial to fix g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri_async()
to be really asynchronous.
This patch also adds GDesktopAppInfo implementation of that vfuncs.
The implementation may still use some synchronous calls to local MIME DB.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1347https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1249
This allows returning WOULD_BLOCK without allocating a GError, and
should later be used for various functions of GPollableOutputStream,
GPollableInputStream and anything else that can potentially block.
So long, and thanks for everything. We’re a Meson-only shop now.
glib-2-58 will remain the last stable GLib release series which is
buildable using autotools.
We continue to install autoconf macros for autotools-using projects
which depend on GLib; they are stable API.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
The behaviour of the Meson build has changed a little vs what we did in
autotools. In autotools, --enable-debug was a tristate (yes, no,
undefined), with all three options resulting in different macro
definitions.
In Meson, we have a bistate of --buildtype={debug,debugoptimized} vs
--buildtype=(anything else). There is no way to automatically define
G_DISABLE_ASSERT or G_DISABLE_CHECKS while building GLib — you need to
define them in your CPPFLAGS in your environment instead.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Drop mentions of autotools. In particular, update the list of configure
options to reflect what’s available in the Meson build.
Further work is needed as a follow-up to improve our handling of (what
was formerly) the --enable-debug option.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Right now this can only be set at construction but not read back.
That seems unnecessarily restrictive, and we'll need to read these
flags from outside of gdbusconnection.c in the next commit, so let's
just make it public.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1620
Add option to not encode resource data into the C source file
in order to embed the data using `ld -b binary`. This improves compilation
times, but can only be done on Linux or other platforms with a
supporting linker.
(Rebased by Philip Withnall, fixing minor rebase conflicts.)
Fixes#1489
There was no distinction between literals which need to be typed, and
normal words in the prose.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Add a new G_TEST_OPTIONS_ISOLATE_XDG_DIRS option for g_test_init() which
automatically creates a temporary set of XDG directories, and a
temporary home directory, and overrides the g_get_user_data_dir() (etc.)
functions for the duration of the unit test with the temporary values.
This is intended to better isolate unit tests from the user’s actual
data and home directory. It works with g_test_subprocess(), but does not
work with subprocesses spawned manually by the test — each unit test’s
code will need to be amended to correctly set the XDG_* environment
variables in the environment of any spawned subprocess.
“Why not solve that by setting the XDG environment variables for the
whole unit test process tree?” I hear you say. Setting environment
variables is not thread safe and they would need to be re-set for each
unit test, once worker threads have potentially been spawned.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/538
Add a new internal function, g_set_user_dirs(), which will safely
override the values returned by g_get_user_data_dir() and friends, and
the value returned by g_get_home_dir().
This is intended to be used by unit tests, and will be hooked up to them
in a following commit.
This can be called as many times as needed by the current process. It’s
thread-safe. It does not modify the environment, so none of the changes
are propagated to any subsequently spawned subprocesses.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/538
This is a utility function which I find myself writing in a number of
places. Mostly in unit tests.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
