so after some discussion with jpeg, weak referenced keys are also a
good idea. these need del track handling to be weak, so i made strong
reffed keys also do del tracking again as it's just nice to do this
and be more robust. also added and improved the test suites for this
key value stuff.
@feature
This implements a new builtin, stringshare, which is replaced with the right
pointer to Eina_Strinshare as necessary. This allows simplifying binding code
(it can call the proper eina APIs, deal with lifetime etc).
It also removes the extern Eina.Stringshare typedef from eina_types.eot, which
was actually incorrect and would generate invalid code in binding generators.
@feature @fix
This lets me narrow down the remaining cases of pointers across the EFL.
The void pointers will later need to be reevaluated on per-case basis and
replaced appropriately where possible/feasible.
This reverts commit 546ff7bbba.
It seems that eo_del() is useful and removing it was creating bugs.
The issue is that the way we defined parents in eo, both the parent and
the programmer share a reference to the object. When we eo_unref() that
reference as the programmer, eo has no way to know it's this specific
reference we are freeing, and not a general one, so in some
circumstances, for example:
eo_ref(child);
eo_unref(child); // trying to delete here
eo_unref(container); // container is deleted here
eo_unref(child); // child already has 0 refs before this point.
We would have an issue with references and objects being freed too soon
and in general, issue with the references.
Having eo_del() solves that, because this one explicitly unparents if
there is a parent, meaning the reference ownership is explicitly taken
by the programmer.
eo_del() is essentially a convenience function around "check if has
parent, and if so unparent, otherwise, unref". Which should be used when
you want to delete an object although it has a parent, and is equivalent
to eo_unref() when it doesn't have one.
Complex types (i.e. list, array, hash, accessor etc.) now do not require
pointers with them anymore (the pointer is implied) and the same goes for
class handles. Eolian now explicitly disallows creating pointers to these
as well. This is the first part of the work to remove pointers from Eolian
completely, with the goal of simplifying the DSL (higher level) and therefore
making it easier for bindings (as well as easier API usage).
@feature
We used to have eo_del() as the mirrored action to eo_add(). No longer,
now you just always eo_unref() to delete an object. This change makes it
so the reference of the parent is shared with the reference the
programmer has. So eo_parent_set(obj, NULL) can free an object, and so
does eo_unref() (even if there is a parent).
This means Eo no longer complains if you have a parent during deletion.
Summary:
object_find is more generic, so other mechanisms can also reuse the
code.
The object itself has to support the function, so there is no need for
eo_isa which would have a negative performance impact.
The base class implementation calls interface_get on the parent, so a
override of the function can just call the super function to continue in
the recursion.
Test Plan: just run the eo test suite
Reviewers: raster, tasn, jpeg
Reviewed By: tasn, jpeg
Subscribers: felipealmeida, netstar, cedric, jpeg
Differential Revision: https://phab.enlightenment.org/D3909
This was done following a feature request by @raster. There was no real
reason for it not to be an eo function and this gives us more
flexibility.
The reason why this done was to provide a way for classes to do special
things when an object deletion was requested, for example in the case of
Evas, hide the object.
base class objects will ask their parent object to get the loop. this
means it recurses all objects regardless of type until it finds an
object that returns a proper loop object - eg a loop object returns
itself, a window, gfx/ui object returns the mainloop object etc. etc.
@feature
The idea is that when you are processing those events from within
they won't call twice any of the event until all of them are processed
at least once (Or one of them did return EINA_FALSE).
this finds child objects by walking the child tree searching children
by using the search string which can be name, class:name and both
class and name can also be a glob.
@feature
eina value would allow any value to be attached to an eo object and
also be freed nicely too. this would allow any generic data to go
there without overloading a void * that us c coders love to abuse.
@feature
also useful for debugging and more. this also makes both name/id and
comment an extension blob of ram so objects dont keep growing
boundlessly in memory usage/size
@feature
also evas objects have names too, so add this as this was discussed
and now the feature is in. there is nothing to find objects by name
yet. that's more api's and features to add after this.
@feature
this adds eo_key_obj_set/get/del() like with data but for object
handles so the obj is ref'd as long as the key and parent obj exists
and then unreffed on deletion. it also tracks deletion of reffed
objects like weak refs and then removes the key automatically.
@feature
Change the Eo event callback signature to what suggested by Marcel
Hollerbach in the ML (Thread: EFL interface change - Animator).
This changes the signature of callbacks from
Eina_Bool cb(void *data, Eo *obj const Eo_Event_Description *desc, void *event_info)
to
Eina_Bool cb(void *data, const Eo_Event *event)
Where Eo_Event is a structure that holds these parameters.
This makes it less annoying to not use parameters (you end up using
EINA_UNUSED less), and allows for future extensions to callback
parameters.
@feature
My previous patch to this piece of code
(37f84b7e96), caused a significant
performance regression. This is such a hot path, that even accessing the
strings when we don't have to slows things down drastically. It makes
more sense to just store it in the structure.
This commit breaks ABI (though most people probably won't even need to
recompile anything else because of the memory layout).
It was discussed on IRC and was decided this is a big enough issue to
warrant a fix during the freeze.
@fix
This hasn't been used for a while. Since we are going to break Eo a bit anyway
it's a good opportunity to drop this.
This may cause a slight performance issues with legacy events, such as
smart callbacks. This shouldn't really be a problem as we've migrated away from
them. If it does, we need to migrate the remaining parts. Only relevant
for callbacks that are added before the classes are created, which
shouldn't be possible except for smart, only for old evas callbacks.
Cedric BAIL
Carsten Haitzler
Felipe Magno de Almeida
Daniel Kolesa
Tom Hacohen
Marcel Hollerbach
Davide Andreoli
Daniel Zaoui
Amitesh Singh