exporting dbus-marshal-recursive.h

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:58 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 15:55 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, I took a crack at this; patch attached.  Includes tests.
>> 
>
>Thanks!
>
>The iterator struct is huuuuuuuuuuge. 

Yeah, the problem is that I need to store two large-ish structures both
of which could potentially grow substantially.  I made an initial guess
about how large DBusStructureRealIter should be (including future
padding), and it wasn't even large enough to hold the existing
DBusString and DBusTypeReader.

>I suggest store only the sig
>length, not the DBusString. Then you can use
>_dbus_string_init_from_const_len (basically free) from each function. Or
>something, not sure.

Hmmm.  The problem I see there is that I'd be declaring a new DBusString
object in the stack frame of each function (such as
dbus_signature_iter_get_current_type), but
_dbus_type_reader_init_types_only just stores a pointer to the
DBusString inside the DBusTypeReader structure from the initial call to
it.  Thus, when calling a later function such as
dbus_signature_iter_get_current_type, the DBusTypeReader structure would
have a pointer to a value in the stack frame of the previously called
dbus_signature_iter_init, leading to undefined behavior.

I haven't actually tried, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work.  Or am I
missing something?

Perhaps I could add a new internal function like
_dbus_type_reader_set_string_internal (...) which would just replace the
DBusString value while retaining everything else about the
DBusTypeReader such as the position?  Seems a bit ugly too...

>static void run_test (TestFunc func, const char *test_name)
>{
>  /* insert cut-and-pasted stuff */
>}

Ok, I fixed this.

In addition, this patch:

o Implements the human-readable format
  - Added to documentation
  - New methods dbus_signature_to_human_readable,
    dbus_signature_from_human_readable
o Added method dbus_signature_typecode_is_basic, to know when to recurse
o Added dbus_signature_iter_init_validate which validates signature
o Added documentation for new signature bits
o Tests all the above

I think this API will work, but I need to actually use it in the glib
bindings to be sure.

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