This is a bit of a compromise. Since the option parsing in
`GApplication` is built on `GOptionContext`, there’s no way to
reliably indicate that a given option was passed by the user, other than
by its value changing. If the default value is zero, but the user
explicitly passed zero, nothing changes, so it’s not obvious that the
option was explicitly provided.
When just `GOptionContext` is being used, this is fine, as that’s
obvious what will happen from the way the API is built. With
`GApplication::handle-local-options`, though, the `GVariantDict`
provided by GLib to the callback claims to only contain the values of
the options provided by the user, and no defaults.
It’s not actually possible for GLib to do that reliably.
Previously, GLib was dropping all numeric values which were zero valued
(i.e. the defaults), as they *could* have been the defaults. It seems
like a slightly better behaviour to instead *not* drop those numeric
values, and err on the side of reporting some defaults as user-provided
(even if they weren’t) rather than dropping some user-provided values
which happen to be the defaults.
This adds a test for the case of parsing a double; the cases for
integers are analogous.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #2329
Update several links to allow the remote to use its configured default
branch name, rather than specifying `master` as the default branch name.
This will help avoid breakage if any of these projects rename their
default branch in the future.
Fix a few of the links where they were hitting redirects or had moved.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2348
The `GApplication` must be registered before calling
`g_application_mark_busy()`. Document that, and add a guard.
The same is true for `g_application_unmark_busy()`, but the existing
documentation and guard for `busy_count > 0` are enough.
An application that has been shut down is still marked as registered
even if its implementation has been already destroyed.
This may lead to unguarded crashes when calling functions that have
assumptions for being used with registered applications.
So, when an application is registered, mark it as unregistered just
before destroying its implementation and after being shut down, so that
we follow the registration process in reversed order.
Added tests
If this g_return_val_if_fail() is ever hit, then we leak arguments.
This is not very important because if your code hits
g_return_val_if_fail() you are invoking undefined behavior, a rather
more serious problem, but let's replace it with g_critical() to be
robust.
This includes a small behavior change: it returns 1 rather than 0 in
this error case.
Found by Coverity.
gio/gapplication.c: In function ‘g_application_parse_command_line’:
gio/gapplication.c:545:11: error: missing initializer for field ‘arg_description’ of ‘GOptionEntry’ {aka ‘struct _GOptionEntry’}
545 | N_("Enter GApplication service mode (use from D-Bus service files)") },
| ^~
gio/gapplication.c:557:11: error: missing initializer for field ‘arg_description’ of ‘GOptionEntry’ {aka ‘struct _GOptionEntry’}
557 | N_("Override the application’s ID") },
| ^~
gio/gapplication.c:569:11: error: missing initializer for field ‘arg_description’ of ‘GOptionEntry’ {aka ‘struct _GOptionEntry’}
569 | N_("Replace the running instance") },
| ^~
This was mostly machine generated with the following command:
```
codespell \
--builtin clear,rare,usage \
--skip './po/*' --skip './.git/*' --skip './NEWS*' \
--write-changes .
```
using the latest git version of `codespell` as per [these
instructions](https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell#user-content-updating).
Then I manually checked each change using `git add -p`, made a few
manual fixups and dropped a load of incorrect changes.
There are still some outdated or loaded terms used in GLib, mostly to do
with git branch terminology. They will need to be changed later as part
of a wider migration of git terminology.
If I’ve missed anything, please file an issue!
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
The event source used to handle inactivity_timeout doesn't hold a
reference on the application. Therefore, it is possible for callback
function of the event source to run after the application has been
freed, leading to use-after-free problem. To avoid the problem, we
should remove the event source before the application is freed.
This should fix SIGBUS crash of gio/tests/gapplication on FreeBSD.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1846#note_566550
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
When an application is launched using Launch Services
osx will add an extra parameter which we were not
handling and then gapplication would abort. Instead we make
an initial parsing and like this we avoid the abort if this
parameter is provided
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1784
While uniqueness is great, sometimes you want to restart
a newer version of the same app. These two flags make that
possible.
We also add a ::name-lost signal, that is emitted when it
happens. The default handler for this signal just calls
g_application_quit(), but applications may want to connect
and do cleanup or state-saving here.
Due to the line wrapping, gtk-doc was interpreting this second line as
redefining the @dbus_register documentation.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Tighten up the validation of application IDs so they are always exactly
D-Bus well-known names. This is a slight change to the accepted format,
but since anyone using the API with an application ID which was
previously valid, but which was not a valid D-Bus well-known name, would
have received an error from D-Bus when their application tried to
register on the bus, I think this break is acceptable.
It will affect any applications which have application IDs which are not
valid D-Bus well-known names, and which use the G_APPLICATION_NON_UNIQUE
flag. From a quick search in Debian Codesearch, no C applications use
that flag.
Update the documentation to use the rules from the D-Bus specification,
including the latest advice discouraging use of hyphens:
https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol-names-bus
Update the tests:
• Add the examples from the documentation to validate them.
• Especially the venerable 7-zip.org example.
• Move a couple of tests from expected-failure to expected-success:
they are valid D-Bus well-known names even if they’re a bit weird.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793400
In order to enrich information displayed by GApplication command line
handling when --help is invoked, 3 new methods are proposed:
. g_application_set_option_context_parameter_string
. g_application_set_option_context_summary
. g_application_set_option_context_description
Those methods interact with the GApplication's internal GOptionContext
which is created for command line parsing in g_application_parse_command_line.
(please refer to the GOptionContext class for more information about option
context, parameter string, summary and description.)
To illustrate the 3 methods, an example is provided:
. gapplication-example-cmdline4.c
Calling g_application_quit() ignores the hold count; this patch adds a
warning to the documentation about other code having a hold on the
application and expecting it to exist.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737278
Unlike g_application_register, there is no public API to unregister the
GApplication from D-Bus. Therefore, if the GApplication is set up
manually without using g_application_run, then neither can the
GApplicationImpl be destroyed nor can dbus_unregister be called before
destruction.
This is fine as long as no sub-class has implemented dbus_unregister.
If they have, their method method will be called after destruction, and
they should be prepared to deal with the consequences.
As long as there is no public API for unregistering, let's demote the
assertion to a WARNING. Bravehearts who don't use g_application_run
can continue to implement dbus_unregister, but they would have been
adequately notified.
This reverts commit c1ae1170fa.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725950
Invoking the dbus_unregister virtual method during destruction is
problematic. It would happen after a sub-class has dropped its
references to its instance objects, and it is surprising to be asked to
unexport exported D-Bus objects after that.
This problem was masked as a side-effect of commit 21b1c390a3.
Let's ensure that it doesn't regress by asserting that dbus_unregister
has happened before destruction.
Based on a patch by Giovanni Campagna.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725950
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.
Some applications support running in a mode where they present
themselves as a different application to the user (for example web
browsers or terminals).
To facilitate this, add an option --gapplication-app-id which allows
users to override an application's id from desktop files or similar.
Applications need to opt-in to this by setting the
G_APPLICATION_CAN_OVERRIDE_APP_ID flag.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743933
As g_win32_get_command_line() calls CommandLineToArgvW() to acquire the
arguments passed into a GApplication program, it actually returns the
whole command line which is used to invoke the program, including the
script interpreter and its flags when a script using GNOME bindings
(e.g. PyGObject and so on) is being invoked.
The issue here is that g_application_run() would most probably have
trouble in the scripts scenario on Windows as it is likely unable to
"recognize" the script interpreter, causing such scripts to fail to run.
Largely based on the patch by Ray Donnelly <mingw.android@gmail.com>.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734095
Otherwise, we'll acquire it on every loop iteration, which can leave us
vulnerable to racing another thread for the acquisition of the main
context.
This can break methods like g_main_context_invoke, which try to acquire
a context to figure out if it can invoke the method synchronously or
need to defer to an idle. In these cases, it isn't guaranteed that the
invocation function will be invoked in the default main context,
e.g. the one that GApplication is holding.
This also matches what GMainLoop is doing.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752983
It's theoretically possible (and see in the wild) for D-Bus messages to
come in to the application after shutdown() has been called and while
we're draining out the lingering events in the main context.
Prevent this from happening by ensuring we unregister our objects on
D-Bus during the shutdown process.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757372
