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>
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Otherwise there’s no obvious suitable return value to return when the
union is *not* discriminated.
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>
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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.
We just do a safe s/gsize/size_t/ replacement here without doing any
changes to places in which different size of size_t and gsize may be
actually different and create troubles.
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 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
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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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