Using the generic marshaller has drawbacks beyond performance. One such
drawback is that it breaks the stack unwinding from the Linux kernel due
to having unsufficient data to walk past ffi_call_unixt64. That means that
performance profiling by application developers looks grouped among
seemingly unrelated code paths.
While we can't fix the kernel unwinding here, we can provide proper
c_marshallers and va_marshallers for objects within Gio so that
performance profiling of applications is more reliable.
Related to GNOME/Initiatives#10
If c_marshaller is provided during g_signal_new() registration, the
automatic va_marshaller will not be set. If we leave the c_marshaller as
NULL in the simple cases, both a c_marshaller and va_marshaller will be
set for us.
This is particularly helpful when dealing with stack traces from Linux
perf, which often cannot unwind the stack beyond the ffi_call_unix64
stack-frame on x86_64.
Related to GNOME/Initiatives#10
The caller cannot assume that the lists returned by various GSettings
functions (for example, lists of keys or schemas) will be returned in
any particular order.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #1781
I was trying to debug some memory leaks in the gsettings test.
Eventually, it seems that actually they’re caused by the
GMemorySettingsBackend being cached by GIOModule — so this commit makes
no functional changes. It should make the code and documentation a bit
clearer though.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
The docs sound like settings list is a thing, and
a ::children-changed signal exists. That is not the
case, and will never be the case at this point, so
stop pretending.
Closes: #1362
Recognise a new 'd' option in schema keys which gives a dictionary of
per-desktop default values. This dictionary is searched for the items
found in XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, in the order. If nothing matches (or if
the option is missing) then the default value is used as before.
This feature was requested by Alberts Muktupāvels and this patch is
based on an approach devised by them.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746592
There are a couple of different ways (and soon one more) to access the
default value of a key. Clean up the various places that access this to
avoid duplication.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746592
All those logging functions already add a newline to any message they
print, so there’s no need to add a trailing newline in the message
passed to them.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Reviewed-by: nobody
When using g_settings_bind(), if a range binding triggers a range check
failure, g_settings_binding_property_changed() will return early, but it
won't cleanup properly causing some leaks. The binding will also still
be marked as 'running', which causes an assertion failure when trying to
free it:
"g_settings_binding_free: assertion failed: (!binding->running)"
Signed-off-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794805
Looks like the author started typing one thing, then changed their mind
about how to phrase the sentence, and typed something else.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
On the warning/critical error handling paths for g_settings_set(), the
GVariant value was not ref-sunk, and the schema key was leaked. This
won’t affect code in production (unless it’s seriously buggy), but
eliminates some leaks from the error testing paths in the GSettings
tests.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779265
If we have an input parameter (or return value) we need to use (nullable).
However, if it is an (inout) or (out) parameter, (optional) is sufficient.
It looks like (nullable) could be used for everything according to the
Annotation documentation, but (optional) is more specific.
Ensure that @key is non-%NULL on g_settings_reset().
It turns out that using g_settings_reset() with %NULL key (although
invalid as per the API documentation and not possible via bindings)
accidentally produces the same effect as the _reset_all() API that we
are about to add.
Add the standard precondition checks to prevent that from happening.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744678
Add a new section to the main GSettings documentation which documents
the best practices for integrating GSettings into an autoconf/automake
build system using the GLIB_GSETTINGS macro.
Some of this material was adapted from the migrating-gconf.xml guide.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741788
The list of keys in a GSettings object depends entirely on the schema,
so it makes sense to expose this API there.
Move the implementation out of gsettings.c and into gsettingsschema.c,
replacing the earlier with a simple call to the new location.
We don't do the same for children because the children can change.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740308
g_settings_has_signal_handlers() checks whether any of the signals has
pending handlers. However, g_signal_has_handler_pending() matches on
exact detail, even when passing 0. Subscribing to one of GSettings'
signals with a detail will fail this check and never connect to the
backend.
Fix this by calling has_handler_pending() with the key as detail as
well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740848
GSettings objects begin watching for changes as soon as they are created
in order that they can emit the "changed" signal.
In the case of dconf, if we want to be able to emit the changed signal,
we need to go on the bus and add some match rules. This requires
creating the dconf helper thread and also requires initialising GDBus
(which creates another thread).
Some users of GSettings are never interested in the "changed" signal.
One of these users is the glib-networking code that gets run every time
a new network connection is created.
Some users are reporting that they are annoyed that simply establishing
a network connection would spawn two extra threads and create a D-Bus
connection.
In order to avoid doing unnecessary work for these simple uses, delay
the subscription until we know that we will actually need to do it.
We do this in a simple way, using a simple argument: in order for the
user to care that a value changed then they must have:
1) watched for a change signal; and then
2) actually read a value
If the user didn't actually read a value then they cannot possibly be
interested in if the value changed or not (since they never knew the old
value to begin with and therefore would be unable to observe that it
ever changed, since they have nothing to compare the new value with).
This really is a behaviour change, however, and it does impact at least
one user: the 'monitor' functionality of the GSettings commandline tool,
which is interested in reporting changes without ever having known the
original values. We add a workaround to the commandline tool in order
to ensure that it continues to function properly.
It's also possible to argue that it is completely valid to have read a
value and _then_ established a change signal connection under the
(correct) assumption that it would not have been possible to miss a
change signal by virtue of not having returned to the mainloop.
Although this argument is true, this pattern is extremely non-idiomatic,
and the problem is easily avoided by doing things in the usual order.
We never really talked about change notification in the overview
documentation for GSettings, so it seems like now is a good time to add
some discussion, including the new rules for when one can expect change
signals to be emitted.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733791
This property has been deprecated for three years after only having
existed for one. We've wanted to reuse the name for all that time, so
let's try to actually remove it now and see if we can get away with it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732102
Change the order of the arguments on the (internal) keys_changed callback in
GSettingsListenerVTable.
This means that all functions in the table now fit the following signature:
void (* f) (GObject *target,
GSettingsBackend *backend,
const gchar *name_or_path,
gpointer origin_tag,
const gchar * const *names);
allowing the possibility of arguments ignored at the end.
This allows us to simplify our dispatch-to-thread code in GSettingsBackend,
making it a bit less generic.
So far, this should be a straight refactor.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710367
Since all element markup is now gone from the doc comments,
we can turn off the gtk-doc sgml mode, which means that from
now on, docbook markup is no longer allowed in doc comments.
To make this possible, we have to replace all remaining
entities in doc comments by their replacement text, & -> &
and so on.
