We commonly don't use the glib typedefs for char/short/int/long,
but their C types directly.
$ git grep '\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>' | wc -l
587
$ git grep '\<\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>' | wc -l
21114
One could argue that using the glib typedefs is preferable in
public API (of our glib based libnm library) or where it clearly
is related to glib, like during
g_object_set (obj, PROPERTY, (gint) value, NULL);
However, that argument does not seem strong, because in practice we don't
follow that argument today, and seldomly use the glib typedefs.
Also, the style guide for this would be hard to formalize, because
"using them where clearly related to a glib" is a very loose suggestion.
Also note that glib typedefs will always just be typedefs of the
underlying C types. There is no danger of glib changing the meaning
of these typedefs (because that would be a major API break of glib).
A simple style guide is instead: don't use these typedefs.
No manual actions, I only ran the bash script:
FILES=($(git ls-files '*.[hc]'))
sed -i \
-e 's/\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>\( [^ ]\)/\1\2/g' \
-e 's/\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\> /\1 /g' \
-e 's/\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>/\1/g' \
"${FILES[@]}"
Add a test which runs nmcli against our stub NetworkManager
service and compares the output.
The output formats of nmcli are complicated and not easily understood.
For example how --mode tabular|multiline interacts with selecting
output-fields (--fields) and output modes ([default]|--terse|--pretty).
Also, there are things like `nmcli connection show --order $FIELD_SPEC`.
We need unit tests to ensure that we don't change the output
accidentally.
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.
This allows to adjust the timeout of an existing checkpoint.
The main usecase of checkpoints, is to have a fail-safe when
configuring the network remotely. By allowing to reset the timeout,
the user can perform a series of actions, and keep bumping the
timeout. That way, the entire series is still guarded by the same
checkpoint, but the user can start with short timeout, and
re-adjust the timeout as he goes along.
The libnm API only implements the async form (at least for now).
Sync methods are fundamentally wrong with D-Bus, and it's probably
not needed. Also, follow glib convenction, where the async form
doesn't have the _async name suffix. Also, accept a D-Bus path
as argument, not a NMCheckpoint instance. The libnm API should
not be more restricted than the underlying D-Bus API. It would
be cumbersome to require the user to lookup the NMCheckpoint
instance first, especially since libnm doesn't provide an efficient
or convenient lookup-by-path method. On the other hand, retrieving
the path from a NMCheckpoint instance is always possible.
If an operation is cancelled through the GCancellable, then the idiom is
that the operation is always cancelled, even if it has finished
successfully. To ensure this is the case, add calls to
g_simple_async_result_set_check_cancellable everywhere.
Without this, e.g. gnome-control-center will crash when switching away
from the power panel quickly, as the NMClient creation finishes
asynchronously and g-c-c assume that G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED is returned to
ensure it doesn't access the now invalid user_data parameter.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794088
The new device type represents a PPP interface, and will implement the
activation of new-style PPPoE connections, i.e. the ones that don't
claim the parent device.
Strangely, this breaks
systemctl restart NetworkManager
nmcli connection up "$NAME"
It seems that with this change, libnm misses some events from D-Bus.
It looks like there is something seriously broken. Before fixing it,
revert the previous state.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450075
This reverts commit 529d620a59.
The current implementation of GDBusObjectManagerClient implements
GAsyncInitableIface, however it simply runs GInitableIface's
synchronous init on another thread.
I suspect that there are races in the way that is implemented.
For one, we see crashes and warnings (rh#1450075, rh#1457769,
rh#1457223). Also, it seems very wrong to me, how GDBusObjectManagerClient
mixes asynchronous signals (on_control_proxy_g_signal) with
synchronously getting all objects (process_get_all_result,
GetManagedObjects).
I think we should ditch GDBusObjectManager altogether, including the
gdbus-codegen skeletons. They add layers of code, for something that
should be simple to do directly. For now, just don't do asynchronous
initialization on another thread, so we at least avoid this kind of
multithreadding issue.
This may make the initialization of NMClient a bit slower.
No need to create a separate NMUdevClient instance for all devices.
Instead, have one "struct udev" instance in NMClient and pass
it down during object construction.
Note that the reason tracking starts as soon as the object exists (which
is immediately after GDBusObject is created), not when the asynchronous
NMObject initialization finishes. That is so that we the reason changes
in between are not lost.
The vpn-connection should probably be doing the same.
Add support for creating dummy devices. This commit adds a D-Bus
interface 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Dummy' which is used
primarily for determining the device type but does not carry any
properties.
This makes it easier to install the files with proper names.
Also, it makes the makefile rules slightly simpler.
Lastly, the documentation is now generated into docs/api, which makes it
possible to get rid of the awkward relative file names in docbook.
Apparently, the client is used by the services we depend on (firewalld),
and an attempt to start the service would deadlock them.
This was an accidental change anyway.
Related firewalld change: https://github.com/t-woerner/firewalld/pull/171
This speeds up the initial object tree load significantly. Also, it
reduces the object management complexity by shifting the duties to
GDBusObjectManager.
The lifetime of all NMObjects is now managed by the NMClient via the
object manager. The NMClient creates the NMObjects for GDBus objects,
triggers the initialization and serves as an object registry (replaces
the nm-cache).
The ObjectManager uses the o.fd.DBus.ObjectManager API to learn of the
object creation, removal and property changes. It takes care of the
property changes so that we don't have to and lets us always see a
consistent object state. Thus at the time we learn of a new object we
already know its properties.
The NMObject unfortunately can't be made synchronously initializable as
the NMRemoteConnection's settings are not managed with standard
o.fd.DBus Properties and ObjectManager APIs and thus are not known to
the ObjectManager. Thus most of the asynchronous object property
changing code in nm-object.c is preserved. The objects notify the
properties that reference them of their initialization in from their
init_finish() methods, thus the asynchronously created objects are not
allowed to fail creation (or the dependees would wait forever). Not a
problem -- if a connection can't get its Settings, it's either invisible
or being removed (presumably we'd learn of the removal from the object
manager soon).
The NMObjects can't be created by the object manager itself, since we
can't determine the resulting object type in proxy_type() yet (we can't
tell from the name and can't access the interface list). Therefore the
GDBusObject is coupled with a NMObject later on.
Lastly, now that all the objects are managed by the object manager, the
NMRemoteSettings and NMManager go away when the daemon is stopped. The
complexity of dealing with calls to NMClient that would require any of
the resources that these objects manage (connection or device lists,
etc.) had to be moved to NMClient. The bright side is that his allows
for removal all of the daemon presence tracking from NMObject.
Backported symbols only make sense for libnm itself, not for
libnm-core which is statically linked with NetworkManager and
nm-ifcace-helper. Declaring the symbols in libnm-core, means
that NetworkManager binary also contains them, although there
are not used.
Move them to libnm.
