wayland implementation conformance

[Kristian Høgsberg]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Jeremy Volkman <jvolkman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's my stab at a Wayland schema written in RELAX NG. It can be converted
> to a W3C schema if preferred, but RELAX NG provides more functionality. For
> example, the schema is able to require an "interface" attribute for an
> argument only if the argument type is "object" or "new_id".
> -Jeremy

Is there a tool that can verify the protocol against the schema?

Kristian

> 2011/1/26 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net>
>>
>> 2011/1/26 Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com>:
>> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:40:25PM -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>> >> 2011/1/26 Josh Leverette <coder543 at gmail.com>:
>> >> > I'm not certain, but I think there could eventually be enough
>> >> > variation for that to be needed. However, even if there isn't, parsing an
>> >> > XML file might be a better long term solution that weakly linked functions
>> >> > and things like that. Perhaps we could modify his idea about an XML profile
>> >> > structure to allow you to delve into each supported profile and find out
>> >> > more about what it supports without having to hard code acceptable version
>> >> > numbers into a program. The only problem I foresee is how to modify the XML
>> >> > file. It's not going to be the end user's job.. but if any program could
>> >> > modify it there needs to be a fallback system to prevent a rogue program
>> >> > from deleting other profile advertisements written in by the system or other
>> >> > programs.
>> >>
>> >> The XML file isn't used at runtime.  It's just a convenient mechanism
>> >> to describe the interface.  The way it works is that a client connects
>> >> to the server and the server will then advertise all the global
>> >> objects available by giving their object id, interface name and
>> >> version.  A client can then look through the list to see what's
>> >> available and adjust its behaviour accordingly.
>> >>
>> >> Kristian
>> >>
>> >
>> > Does the XML file have a particular schema?
>> >
>> > It might be useful to install it in /usr/share so it could be used by
>> > tools. I'm thinking mostly of a d-feet style introspection tool for the
>> > Wayland protocol (we could even go as far as dynamically adaptable
>> > bindings for languages like Ruby or Python).
>>
>> I didn't actually write a schema for it, but if somebody with the
>> right XML-fu could do that that would be nice.  It's a good point that
>> dynamic languages probably just want to parse the XML directly and
>> generate the bindings on the fly and for that we would need to install
>> the XML.  As for introspection/logging/xscope, that's built into the
>> server side library: set WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 and watch the requests and
>> events fly by.
>>
>> Kristian
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