Add a new libnm-glib method to get the type description for a device,
and use it in nmcli. For most types, the type description is based on
the class name, but for NMDeviceGeneric, it comes from the
:type-description property.
When using a private connection, we need to use dbus_g_proxy_new_for_peer()
because the bus isn't involved. Since many parts of libnm-glib create a
proxy for their corresponding remote object, consolidate the proxy creation
logic.
A later patch will add logic to use a private connection versus a bus-based
one.
Do NMSettingConnection:interface-name matching on the client side as
well, so that, eg, nm-applet does not list connections under the wrong
device.
(Also, move some return-if-fail checks from the subclass method
implementations into the wrapper function.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693684
In some situations, objects might get used after being disposed, so
clear out their various priv fields so we don't try to access unreffed
objects, freed strings, etc.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674473
We need to do _nm_object_ensure_inited() /
_nm_remote_settings_ensure_inited() from the get_property()
implementations; in most cases, get_property() just calls another
accessor method (which will call _nm_object_ensure_inited()), but in a
few places, it reads priv->whatever directly, so we need to make sure
that it's valid.
Add nm_device_connection_compatible() that returns an error when it fails.
nm_device_connection_valid() does the same work except it doesn't set GError.
Rather than generating enum classes by hand (and complaining in each
file that "this should really be standard"), use glib-mkenums.
Unfortunately, we need a very new version of glib-mkenums in order to
deal with NM's naming conventions and to fix a few other bugs, so just
import that into the source tree temporarily.
Also, to simplify the use of glib-mkenums, import Makefile.glib from
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/654395.
To avoid having to run glib-mkenums for every subdirectory of src/,
add a new "generated" directory, and put the generated enums files
there.
Finally, use Makefile.glib for marshallers too, and generate separate
ones for libnm-glib and NetworkManager.
Implement GInitable and GAsyncInitable in NMObject, with
implementations that synchronously or asynchonously load all
properties, and change _nm_object_ensure_inited() to run
g_initable_init().
Update the object/object-array property handling to initialize the
objects after creating them (synchronously or asynchronously,
according to the situation), so that they will have all of their
properties preloaded before they are ever visible to the caller.
Move the non-blocking/non-failable parts of various objects'
constructor() methods to constructed(), and move the blocking/failable
parts to init(), and implement init_async() methods with non-blocking
versions of the blocking methods.
Make nm_device_new() and nm_client_new() call
_nm_object_ensure_inited(), to preserve the behaviour formerly
enforced by their construct() methods, that properties are guaranteed
to be initialized before any signals involving them are emitted.
Rather than having every property getter method have code to fetch
that specific property's value, just call the new
_nm_object_ensure_inited() (which makes sure that we've read all the
property values on the object at least once), and then return the
cached value. (After we've read the initial property values, the
PropertiesChanged signal handler will ensure that the values are kept
up to date, so we can always just return cached property values after
that point.)
This then lets us get rid of _nm_object_get_property() and its
wrappers.
Rename _nm_object_handle_properties_changed(), etc, to be about
properties in general, rather than just property changes.
Interpret func==NULL in NMPropertiesInfo as meaning "use
_nm_object_demarshal_generic", and then reorder the fields so that you
can just leave that field out in the declarations when it's NULL.
Add a way to register properties that exist in D-Bus but aren't
tracked by the NMObjects, and use that for NMDevice's D-Bus Ip4Address
property, replacing the existing hack.
Also add a few other missing properties noticed along the way.
Like the *_filter_connections() functions, but for just one connection,
and now the *_filter_connections() functions call these new ones so
it's really just moving code around and not anything new.
These new functions more closely match the usage I've seen from
gnome-shell's network.js and elsewhere.
These days more and more devices are showing up that support a
number of different access technology families in the same hardware,
like Qualcomm Gobi (CDMA and GSM), Pantech UM190 (CDMA and GSM),
Pantech UML290 (CDMA and LTE), LG VL600 (CDMA and LTE), Sierra
320U (GSM and LTE), etc. The previous scheme of having device
classes based on access technology family simply cannot handle
this hardware and attempting to add LTE to both the CDMA and GSM
device classes would result in a bunch of code duplication that
we don't want. There's a better way...
Instead, combine both CDMA and GSM device classes into a generic
"Modem" device class that provides capabilities indicating what
access technology families a modem supports, and what families
it supports immediately without a firmware reload. (Gobi devices
for example require a firmware reload before they can switch
between GSM and CDMA). This provides the necessary flexibility
to the client and allows us to keep the API stable when the
same consolidation change is made in ModemManager.
The current code doesn't yet allow multi-mode operation internally,
but the API is now what we want it to be and won't need to be
changed.
