glib/gistructinfo.h
Emmanuele Bassi 605fdf7046 Add copy and free function annotations for POD types
Plain Old Data (POD) types with or without a representation in the GType
type system can still have a copy and/or a free function. We should
allow annotating these types with their corresponding functions for
copying their data into a new instance, and freeing their data.

From a language bindings perspective, POD types should have a boxed
GType wrapper around them, so they can use the generic GBoxed API to
copy and free instances; from a documentation perspective, though, it'd
be good to have a way to match a structured type, like a struct or a
union, with its copy and free functions.

In order to do that, we add two new header block annotations:

- (copy-func function_name)
- (free-func function_name)

These annotations work exactly like ref-func and unref-func for typed
instances:

    /**
     * GdkRGBA: (copy-func gdk_rgba_copy)
     *   (free-func gdk_rgba_free)
     * @red: ...
     * @green: ...
     * @blue: ...
     * @alpha: ...
     *
     * ...
     */

The function is stored in the GIR data as two new attributes for the
`<record>` and `<union>` elements:

    <record name="RGBA"
            c:type="GdkRGBA"
            copy-function="gdk_rgba_copy"
            free-function="gdk_rgba_free"
            glib:type-name="GdkRGBA"
            glib:get-type="gdk_rgba_get_type"
            c:symbol-prefix="gdk_rgba">

The annotations are not mandatory.

See: #14
2023-01-08 14:50:28 +00:00

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/* -*- mode: C; c-file-style: "gnu"; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*-
* GObject introspection: Struct
*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Matthias Clasen
* Copyright (C) 2008,2009 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
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* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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*/
#ifndef __GISTRUCTINFO_H__
#define __GISTRUCTINFO_H__
#if !defined (__GIREPOSITORY_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GI_COMPILATION)
#error "Only <girepository.h> can be included directly."
#endif
#include <gitypes.h>
G_BEGIN_DECLS
/**
* GI_IS_STRUCT_INFO
* @info: an info structure
*
* Checks if @info is a #GIStructInfo.
*/
#define GI_IS_STRUCT_INFO(info) \
(g_base_info_get_type((GIBaseInfo*)info) == GI_INFO_TYPE_STRUCT)
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gint g_struct_info_get_n_fields (GIStructInfo *info);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GIFieldInfo * g_struct_info_get_field (GIStructInfo *info,
gint n);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_1_46
GIFieldInfo * g_struct_info_find_field (GIStructInfo *info,
const gchar *name);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gint g_struct_info_get_n_methods (GIStructInfo *info);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GIFunctionInfo * g_struct_info_get_method (GIStructInfo *info,
gint n);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GIFunctionInfo * g_struct_info_find_method (GIStructInfo *info,
const gchar *name);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gsize g_struct_info_get_size (GIStructInfo *info);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gsize g_struct_info_get_alignment (GIStructInfo *info);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_struct_info_is_gtype_struct (GIStructInfo *info);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_struct_info_is_foreign (GIStructInfo *info);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_1_76
const char * g_struct_info_get_copy_function (GIStructInfo *info);
GI_AVAILABLE_IN_1_76
const char * g_struct_info_get_free_function (GIStructInfo *info);
G_END_DECLS
#endif /* __GISTRUCTINFO_H__ */