Summary:
Eolian adds a per-class BETA guard (like EFL_UI_WIN_BETA) to any method tagged
as @beta. This means that any app (and the EFL code) wanting to use BETA features
has to enable them class by class, which is cumbersome.
This commit replaces the individual guards with the global EFL_BETA_API_SUPPORT
guard, so apps only need to define one symbol to access BETA features.
Any usage of the per-class guards has been removed from the EFL code and examples.
When building EFL the global guard is defined by configure, so all EFL methods
already have access to BETA API.
Efl_Core.h and Efl_Ui.h no longer define EFL_BETA_API_SUPPORT. Apps wanting to
use BETA API have to define this symbol before including any EFL header
(It has been added to the examples requiring it).
Test Plan:
make && make check && make examples still work, but there's a lot less #defines
in the code
Reviewers: zmike, bu5hm4n, q66
Reviewed By: q66
Subscribers: cedric, #reviewers, #committers
Tags: #efl
Maniphest Tasks: T6788
Differential Revision: https://phab.enlightenment.org/D7924
Working directly with Eina_Slice is easier than a pointer to it,
requires no validation of the pointers and is cheap since it's just
putting together size_t + void*.
However we can't hint the user of 'const(Eina.Slice)' properties as
Eolian is incorrectly generating getters as:
const Eina_Slice class_property_get(...)
which is makes compilers complain about ignored qualifiers:
../src/lib/ecore/efl_io_copier.eo.h:329:7: warning: 'const' type qualifier on return type has no effect [-Wignored-qualifiers]
Leave some TODO so @q66 can fix those.
Previously we couldn't return a slice, instead required the user to
pass a slice and we'd fill it since Eolian couldn't generate fallbacks
for structures.
Since @q66 fixed eolian, we can now return the structure itself as
initially wanted, ditching some TODO from the code.
Since all other efl.io objects are low-level, the recommended approach
is to use an efl.io.copier. However when dealing with in-memory,
bi-directional comms like talking to a socket, we always end with 2
queues, 2 copiers and the annoying setup that is being replicated in
ecore_ipc, efl_debug and so on.
This class is the base to make it simpler. Other classes such as
Efl.Net.Socket.Simple, Efl.Net.Dialer.Simple and Efl.Net.Server.Simple
will use it to provide simpler code to users.
I guess we can call EFL+EO Java now?
Mike Blumenkrantz
Xavi Artigas
Cedric BAIL
Carsten Haitzler
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri