If we want to ensure that we create only one single instance of
NMPolicy, just don't create multiple instances. The nm_policy_new()
method should not be restriced and behave like other *new() functions
and create a new object as requested.
Add internal functions _nm_connection_replace_settings() and
_nm_connection_new_from_hash() that cannot fail.
Altough they are not public API, we have to expose them via
libnm-util.ver so that they can be used from libnm-glib.
Warnings aren't great, especially if they can realistically be triggered
by a newer NetworkManager version. Just accept what we can and ignore
the rest silently.
There is no excuse for clients to send connections to NetworkManager
that have invalid/unknown fields. Just reject them.
This is a dangerous change, because we might now reject connections
that we were accepting previously. Who know what clients were sending
and it used to work.
AddAndActivateConnection is allowed to provide an incomplete connection
that will be completed by NetworkManager. That is, a connection that
does not verify.
But we still want to catch invalid properties or unknown setting types.
Thus, we want to reject invalid partial connections.
This possibly rejects invalid requests from clients that were accepted
before. Thus this change has the potential to break misbehaving clients.
There is no excuse for clients to send connections to NetworkManager
that have invalid/unknown fields. Just reject them.
As Reapply() is new API in nm-1-1, there is no problem with backward
compatibility.
Relax our error checking which will allow us to try harder to
make the best out of whatever NetworkManager sends us.
Also, drop the g_warning(). First, now we really don't expect this
function to fail. And even in that case, raising a g_warning() from
the library is not very friendly to the user of libnm.
When we receive a connection from NetworkManager it is not guaranteed
that the connection verifies. For example, if the current libnm version
is older then the NetworkManager version.
Be more accepting and don't do any verification of the connection.
For NMVpnPluginOld this change is uncritical, because there are probably
no users of this API anyway.
NMVpnServicePlugin is new API since nm-1-1. However, this API is already
strongly used by all the plugins we ported over. So this change is
affecting them.
This should only matter if libnm's and NetworkManager's version differ,
because NetworkManager just doesn't send out an invalid connection. It
actually only matters if NetworkManager is a newer version and sends an
invalid connection to the client. That is anyway badly tested and probably
this changes rather improves compatibility than breaking existing users.
When we receive a connection from NetworkManager it is not guaranteed
that the connection verifies. For example, if the current libnm version
is older then the NetworkManager version.
Be more accepting and don't do any verification of the connection.
This is a change in behavior in that we accept also invalid connections
and pass them down to the sub-classes.
Normalizing means that we fail on invalid connections.
Which can happen when the server is newer than the libnm
version. We just want to return whatever we can. The
caller should make sense of this.
This makes libnm more accepting and thus is not going to break
existing applications. Also, nm_device_get_applied_connection()
is new API since nm-1-1.
No actual change, let's just not directly call nm_simple_connection_new_from_dbus().
Instead, add a wrapper to define in once place the flags we use for loading the
connection.
In some situations, we want strict checking of errors, for example when
NetworkManager receives a new connection from a client, the connection
must make sense as a whole (and since NetworkManager service is backward
compatible to the clients and not the other way around, there is no
excuse for sending invalid data to the server).
In other situations, we want a best-effort behavior. Like when
NetworkManager sends a connection to its clients, those clients
want to extract as many properties as they understand, but in order
to be forward compatible against newer server versions, invalid
or unknown properties must be accepted.
Previously, a mixture of both was done. Some issues caused a failure
to create a new NMSetting, other invalid parts were just silently
ignored or triggered a g_warning() in glib.
Now allow for both. When doing strict-validation, be more strict and
reject all unknown properties and catch when the user sets an invalid
argument. On the other hand, allow for a best-effort mode that
effectively cannot fail and will return a new NMSetting instance.
For now, add NMSettingParseFlags so that the caller can choose the
old behavior, strict parsing, or best effort.
This patch doesn't have any externally visible change except that
no more g_warnings will be emitted.
NM_UTILS_ERROR is our way to say, that we don't care about
the GError domain and code. nmcli sometimes passes domain "1"
and code "0" to g_set_error(), which could be considered
a bug.
We usually don't care about the error but only about the error
message, so let's have a universally available error quark around.
_nm_utils_ascii_str_to_int64() was declared in libnm-core's internal
header "nm-core-internal.h" and thus available for libnm-core, libnm,
NetworkManager and related.
It also means, the function was not available in libnm-util, libnm-glib,
clients or dispatcher. So, we either reimplemented it (nmc_string_to_int_base)
or struggle with the awkward strtol* API.
nm_connection_replace_settings_from_connection() would return whether the
connection verifies at the end of the operation. While that is not very
useful, the API is like that and cannot be changed.
For consistency, also perform the verification step in case of self-assignment.
Self-assigment is anyway a case that probably never happens.
Don't try to realize our device when the parent device is not real.
Instead, enqueue the activation and wait until it is active before
realizing our device and progressing the device to DISCONNECTED so that
it can get connected.
If it's traversing from unavailable to disconnected (e.g. realizing
of the device was delayed because it was awaiting the parent connection),
then we just want to progress the activation.
We'll need to share the best conneciton logic and it's the only caller
of nm_device_get_available_connections(). Let's just move it all to
NMDevice and provide the best connection from there instead.
May use a lot of improvement (actually documenting the names and
objects that use the interfaces in question), but at least this looks a
lot better on developer.gnome.org.
