Syslog calls this level "notice" and I prefer it because we use it
to display significant messages that are not warnings, but they
are not really "standard", as GLib wants them to be. There is nothing
"standard" about log messages in general.
Also, make these notice messages be enabled at debug level 2, together
with warnings. The default log.level is 2 and it is a good idea to show
notices by default too.
Finally, show them in the log with "N" and also change criticals to be
shown with "E", meaning "error"... Then promote G_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR
messages to be shown with "F", meaning "fatal", because in fact these
messages are always fatal and always call abort(). Still, keep the term
"critical" in the functions to make sure that whoever uses them is aware
that this level is only for critical conditions and not suitable to
display any kind of error.
The intention is to make checks for enabled log topics faster.
Every topic has its own structure that is statically defined in the file
where the logs are printed from. The structure is initialized transparently
when it is first used and it contains all the log level flags for the levels
that this topic should print messages. It is then checked on the wp_log()
macro before printing the message.
Topics from SPA/PipeWire are also handled natively, so messages are printed
directly without checking if the topic is enabled, since the PipeWire and SPA
macros do the checking themselves.
Messages coming from GLib are checked inside the handler.
An internal WpLogFields object is used to manage the state of each log
message, populating all the fields appropriately from the place they
are coming from (wp_log, spa_log, glib log), formatting the message and
then printing it. For printing to the journald, we still use the glib
message handler, converting all the needed fields to GLogField on demand.
That message handler does not do any checks for the topic or the level, so
we can just call it to send the message.
All core `pw_*_info` structures have a 64-bit change mask.
However, the `change_mask` in the session manager extension
info structures is only 32-bit. The differing sizes can cause
problems, especially on big endian architectures at the moment.
See #49
These are also printed by libpipewire on the DEBUG level
and they are really not that harmful, so we don't need to spam
users with "failed" messages and alarm them
Also rename the intermediate lua api table WpDebug -> WpLog
Keeps things more consistent with the function names (wp_log*),
with the lua api (Log.*) and with pipewire using log.{h,c} as well.
After all, these functions are for logging...
* Use a more complete API to introspect SPA types
* Avoid the need for the Tables enumeration; the tables
are now registered with a string
* Avoid the need for initialization, work directly on spa_types
and other static data
* Allow working with Object pods that are not Params;
the PARAMS table was previously hardcoded in the pod implementation
* Add a different dynamic type registration system, closer to
how spa type works. The only regression is that we can no longer
register additional custom object fields (custom SPA_PROP_* for example),
but this feature can be re-added later
Now the WpPipewireObject interface is directly implemented by the mixin
and there is another interface that users of the mixin must implement
in order for the mixin to work proprely.
A lot of manual stuff that proxy classes had to do before are now
in the mixin. Also most of the data that would normally reside in Private
structures is now in the mixin data structure (stored as qdata on the object).
This is achieving the best amount of code reuse so far.
For impl objects (WpImpl*) there are also default implementations of the
standard pipewire object methods and the INFO & PARAM_* features are
more coherently enabled during the whole lifetime of these objects.
This is an attempt to unclutter the API of WpProxy and
split functionality into smaller pieces, making it easier
to work with.
In this new class layout, we have the following classes:
- WpObject: base class for everything; handles activating
| and deactivating "features"
|- WpProxy: base class for anything that wraps a pw_proxy;
| handles events from pw_proxy and nothing more
|- WpGlobalProxy: handles integration with the registry
All the other classes derive from WpGlobalProxy. The reason
for separating WpGlobalProxy from WpProxy, though, is that
classes such as WpImplNode / WpSpaDevice can also derive from
WpProxy now, without interfacing with the registry.
All objects that come with an "info" structure and have properties
and/or params also implement the WpPipewireObject interface. This
provides the API to query properties and get/set params. Essentially,
this is implemented by all classes except WpMetadata (pw_metadata
does not have info)
This interface is implemented on each object separately, using
a private "mixin", which is a set of vfunc implementations and helper
functions (and macros) to facilitate the implementation of this interface.
A notable difference to the old WpProxy is that now features can be
deactivated, so it is possible to enable something and later disable
it again.
This commit disables modules, tests, tools, etc, to avoid growing the
patch more, while ensuring that the project compiles.