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title="NEW --- - [task] Protocol: Make enums a type for arguments"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55534">55534</a>
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<td>wayland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>[task] Protocol: Make enums a type for arguments
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<th>Severity</th>
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<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>john.kare.alsaker@gmail.com
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<td>Other
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>wayland
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<th>Product</th>
<td>Wayland
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<pre>Enums should be their own type so could specify that you are passing an enum by
using type="enum.<enum name>". For the error event where any enum can be
passed, we could use type="enum". When the enum is specified in another
interface, we could use type="enum.<interface>.<enum name>". I'm not sure how
this should interact with multiple versions or how it currently does. We could
also just use type="enum" for these cases.
Adding enums as types serves as documentation and adds type safety for
generated code in languages which features such for enums. The effect on C
source and ABI should be none.</pre>
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