Get rid of the weird old signature:
- int StringType::to_int(bool& ok) const
And replace it with sensible new signature:
- Optional<int> StringType::to_int() const
If we exhaust the buffer stream, the reads appear to succeed, but the stream
itself panics when we later attempt to drop it. To prevent it, we check for
errors explicitly.
You can now mark String message parameters with the [UTF8] attribute.
This will cause the generated decoder to perform UTF-8 validation and
reject the message if the given parameter is not a valid UTF-8 string.
This frees up the receiving side from having to do this validation at
a higher level.
Now most classes dictate how they are serialized and deserialized when
transmitted across LibIPC sockets. This also makes the IPC compiler
a bit simpler. :^)
Our C++ code generator tools have been relying on host-side dbg() being
forwarded to stdout until now. Now they use out() instead.
Hopefully this will make it easier and more enticing to use streams in
userspace programs as well. :^)
With this patch, it's now possible to pass a Gfx::ShareableBitmap in an
IPC message. As long as the message itself is synchronous, the bitmap
will be adopted by the receiving end, and disowned by the sender nicely
without any accounting effort like we've had to do in the past.
Use this in NotificationServer to allow sending arbitrary bitmaps as
icons instead of paths-to-icons.
FlyString is a flyweight string class that wraps a RefPtr<StringImpl>
known to be unique among the set of FlyStrings. The class is very
unoptimized at the moment.
When to use FlyString:
- When you want O(1) string comparison
- When you want to deduplicate a lot of identical strings
When not to use FlyString:
- For strings that don't need either of the above features
- For strings that are likely to be unique
This shaves ~5 seconds off of a full build, not too bad. Also it just
seems nicer to push this logic out to classes. It could be better but
it's a start. :^)
Compiling anything that includes generated IPC messages is painfully
slow at the moment. This moves the encoding helpers out of line, which
helps a bit. Doing the same for decoding will help more.
I started adding things to a Draw namespace, but it somehow felt really
wrong seeing Draw::Rect and Draw::Bitmap, etc. So instead, let's rename
the library to LibGfx. :^)
Since BufferStream is about creating specific binary stream formats,
let's not have a flaky type like size_t in there. Instead, clients of
BufferStream can cast their size_t to the binary size they want to use.
Account for this in IPCCompiler by making String lengths always 32-bit.
I've been wanting to do this for a long time. It's time we start being
consistent about how this stuff works.
The new convention is:
- "LibFoo" is a userspace library that provides the "Foo" namespace.
That's it :^) This was pretty tedious to convert and I didn't even
start on LibGUI yet. But it's coming up next.
As suggested by Joshua, this commit adds the 2-clause BSD license as a
comment block to the top of every source file.
For the first pass, I've just added myself for simplicity. I encourage
everyone to add themselves as copyright holders of any file they've
added or modified in some significant way. If I've added myself in
error somewhere, feel free to replace it with the appropriate copyright
holder instead.
Going forward, all new source files should include a license header.
Instead of using ByteBuffer (which always malloc() their storage) for
IPC message encoding, we now use a Vector<u8, 1024>, which means that
messages smaller than 1 KB avoid heap allocation entirely.
Allow everything to be built from the top level directory with just
'make', cleaned with 'make clean', and installed with 'make
install'. Also support these in any particular subdirectory.
Specifying 'make VERBOSE=1' will print each ld/g++/etc. command as
it runs.
Kernel and early host tools (IPCCompiler, etc.) are built as
object.host.o so that they don't conflict with other things built
with the cross-compiler.
This patch introduces code generation for the WindowServer IPC with
its clients. The client/server endpoints are defined by the two .ipc
files in Servers/WindowServer/: WindowServer.ipc and WindowClient.ipc
It now becomes significantly easier to add features and capabilities
to WindowServer since you don't have to know nearly as much about all
the intricate paths that IPC messages take between LibGUI and WSWindow.
The new system also uses significantly less IPC bandwidth since we're
now doing packed serialization instead of passing fixed-sized structs
of ~600 bytes for each message.
Some repaint coalescing optimizations are lost in this conversion and
we'll need to look at how to implement those in the new world.
The old CoreIPC::Client::Connection and CoreIPC::Server::Connection
classes are removed by this patch and replaced by use of ConnectionNG,
which will be renamed eventually.
Goodbye, old WindowServer IPC. You served us well :^)
Client-side connection objects must now provide both client and server
endpoint types. When a message is received from the server side, we try
to decode it using both endpoint types and then send it to the right
place for handling.
This now makes it possible for AudioServer to send unsolicited messages
to its clients. This opens up a ton of possibilities :^)
This was happening for async (response-less) messages, since they were
returning void and were were always just wrapping the return type in
an OwnPtr no matter what.
- Add IEndpoint::handle(IMessage), a big switch table on message type.
handle() will return a response message for synchronous messages,
and return nullptr otherwise.
- Use i32 instead of int for everything
- Make IMessage::encode() const
- Make IEndpoint::decode_message() static, this allows template code to
decode messages without an endpoint instance on hand.
