I'd like to use GVariant as a data format in my userspace filesystem,
and having the actual bits be stable means I can reliably compute
cryptographic checksums.
This updated patch removes vardict checks, because Ryan wants the
flexibility to change them in the future.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673012
For some time now people have been asking for a way to check for type
compatibility between GVariant instances and format strings. There are
several APIs inside of GLib itself that would benefit from this.
This patch introduces a way to do that.
String validation was done by checking if the string was valid utf8 and
ensuring that the first non-utf8 character was the last character (ie:
the nul terminator).
No check was actually done to make sure that this byte actually
contained a nul, however, so it was possible that you could have a
string like "hello\xff" with length 6 that would correctly validate.
Fix that, and test it.
Some of the GLib tests deliberately provoke warnings (or even fatal
errors) in a forked child. Normally, this is fine, but under valgrind
it's somewhat undesirable. We do want to follow fork(), so we can check
for leaks in child processes that exit gracefully; but we don't want to
be told about "leaks" in processes that are crashing, because there'd
be no point in cleaning those up anyway.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666116
These don't really matter, since it's test code, but they do obscure
real leaks in the library.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666115
Acked-by: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Add G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH_ARRAY along with accessor functions
g_variant_new_objv, g_variant_get_objv and g_variant_dup_objv. Also add
support for '^ao' and '^a&o' format strings for g_variant_new() and
g_variant_get().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654955
g_variant_new("as", NULL); now gives an empty array of strings, for
example.
This was documented as working already, but was never actually
implemented (due to the fact that it muddies the water when considering
maybe types). It's being implemented now because its convenience to
programmers exceeds any damage done to the conceptual purity of the API.
One of the GVariant test cases allocates a pair of character arrays on
the stack and then passes them to functions that assume that they will
be aligned to a multiple of two.
This is not the case for some versions of GCC (4.0.3 on PowerPC).
- add G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING, _BYTESTRING_ARRAY, _STRING_ARRAY
- remove g_variant_{new,get}_byte_array functions
- add g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring{,_array} functions
- remove undocumented support for deserialising arrays of objectpaths
or signature strngs using g_variant_get_strv()
- add and document new format strings '^ay', '^&ay', '^aay' and '^a&ay'
- update GApplication to use the new API
- update GSettings binding code to use the new API
- add tests
Take advantage of our knowledge that GVariant strings are always valid
utf8 when printing and parsing:
- allow valid printing unicode characters to pass through unescaped
- escape non-printing characters using \uxxxx or \Uxxxxxxxx format
- do the same in the parser
- update existing test cases to use utf8, add a new test case
Partial-backout 8a21d8d23317ecebe46007f1fd5f7459bf182415. The
assertions should have remained relaxed since these functions are used
with non-posix_memalign()ed data.
The GVariant serialiser works well with non-8-aligned memory, but the
comparison serialiser in the test case depends on memory being
8-aligned. Use posix_memalign() to get the memory used by this
serialiser.
- modify serialiser validation function to enforce utf8 encoding
- add documentation to g_variant_new_string(), g_variant_get_string(),
g_variant_dup_string()
- add 2 new test cases to check that it works
NaN floating point values get mangled when passing across the function
call ABI on x86 so avoid using them to get rid of spurious failures.
Reported by Christian Persch and reliably reproduced by Emilio Pozuelo
Monfort.
Merge GVariant variable arguments support and put it under tests.
Also, remove the hack of the test case directly '#include'ing .c files
from glib/. Instead, create a non-installed gvariant-internal.h that
the tests can include and make the symbols in it visible on the symbol
table of the shared library. These symbols (as they are present in no
installed header files) are not part of the API of GLib.
Increase test coverage in a few other areas.
