The libnm API fir checkpoints was only introduced with 1.11. It
is not yet stable, so there is still time to adjust it. Note that
this changes API/ABI of the development branch.
Changes:
- we only add async variants of the checkpoint functions. I believe
that synchronous D-Bus methods are fundamentally flawed, because
they mess up the ordering of events.
Rename the async functions by removing the "_async" suffix. This
matches glib style, for which the async form is also not specially
marked.
- for function that refere to a particular checkpoint (rollback and
destroy), accept the D-Bus path as string, instead of an NMCheckpoint
instance. This form is more flexible, because it allows to use
the function without having a NMCheckpoint instance at hand. On the
other hand, if one has a NMCheckpoint instance, he can trivially
obtain the path to make the call.
- make python2 and python3 compatible
- support Checkpoint create flags (requires recent libnm for GI
of flags)
- support adjust-rollback-timeout command
- print elapsed time in show output
Note that this changes API for checkpoint_create_async() in Python
via GIR. Previously it would require an integer argument, now a flags
argument. But this API is still unstable, it will be introduced with
1.12.
We commonly only allow tabs at the beginning of a line, not
afterwards. The reason for this style is so that the code
looks formated right with tabstop=4 and tabstop=8.
Add an example python script to show and set setting's
user-data. This is useful, as nmcli still doesn't support
user data.
(cherry picked from commit 447c766f52)
Otherwise there is a warning:
from gi.repository import GLib, NM
__main__:1: PyGIWarning: NM was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version(NM, 1.0) before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
gi now emits a warning when not loading a specific library
version [1]:
./generate-setting-docs.py:21: PyGIWarning: NM was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version(NM, 1.0) before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
from gi.repository import NM, GObject
Seems require_version() is reasonably old to just always use it without
breaking on older versions [2].
[1] Related: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727379
[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/commit/?id=76758efb6579752237a0dc4d56cf9518de6c6e55
Update the raw D-Bus python examples to use newer APIs where
appropriate (and split the add-connection example into 1.0-only and
0.9-compatible versions). Update the gi-based python examples for the
various API changes since they were last updated.
Also add a comment to the ruby add-connection example pointing out
that it's still using the old settings APIs.
Remove _nm_object_ensure_inited(), etc; objects that implement
GInitable are now mandatory-to-init().
Remove constructor() implementations that sometimes return NULL; do
all the relevant checking in init() instead.
Make nm_client_new() and nm_remote_settings_new() take a GCancellable
and a GError**.
Since the API has not changed at this point, this is mostly just a
matter of updating Makefiles, and changing references to the library
name in comments.
NetworkManager cannot link to libnm due to the duplicated type/symbol
names. So it links to libnm-core.la directly, which means that
NetworkManager gets a separate copy of that code from libnm.so.
Everything else links to libnm.
