Previously, each (non abstract) NMSetting class had to register
its name and priority via _nm_register_setting().
Note, that libnm-core.la already links against "nm-meta-setting.c",
which also redundantly keeps track of the settings name and gtype
as well.
Re-use NMMetaSettingInfo also in libnm-core.la, to track this meta
data.
The goal is to get rid of private data structures that track
meta data about NMSetting classes. In this case, "registered_settings"
hash. Instead, we should have one place where all this meta data
is tracked. This was, it is also accessible as internal API,
which can be useful (for keyfile).
Note that NMSettingClass has some overlap with NMMetaSettingInfo.
One difference is, that NMMetaSettingInfo is const, while NMSettingClass
is only initialized during the class_init() method. Appart from that,
it's mostly a matter of taste, whether we attach meta data to
NMSettingClass, to NMMetaSettingInfo, or to a static-array indexed
by NMMetaSettingType.
Note, that previously, _nm_register_setting() was private API. That
means, no user could subclass a functioning NMSetting instance. The same
is still true: NMMetaSettingInfo is internal API and users cannot access
it to create their own NMSetting subclasses. But that is almost desired.
libnm is not designed, to be extensible via subclassing, nor is it
clear why that would be a useful thing to do. One day, we should remove
the NMSetting and NMSettingClass definitions from public headers. Their
only use is subclassing the types, which however does not work.
While libnm-core was linking already against nm-meta-setting.c,
nm_meta_setting_infos was unreferenced. So, this change increases
the binary size of libnm and NetworkManager (1032 bytes). Note however
that roughly the same information was previously allocated at runtime.
- Don't use @parent_class name. This local variable (and @object_class) is
the class instance up-cast to the pointer types of the parents. The point
here is not that it is the direct parent. The point is, that it's the
NMSettingClass type.
Also, it can only be used inconsistently, in face of NMSettingIP4Config,
who's parent type is NMSettingIPConfig. Clearly, inside
nm-setting-ip4-config.c we wouldn't want to use the "parent_class"
name. Consistently rename @parent_class to @setting_class.
- Also rename the pointer to the own class to @klass. "setting_class" is also the
wrong name for that, because the right name would be something like
"setting_6lowpan_class".
However, "klass" is preferred over the latter, because we commonly create new
GObject implementations by copying an existing one. Generic names like "klass"
and "self" inside a type implementation make that simpler.
- drop useless comments like
/* virtual functions */
/* Properties */
It's better to logically and visually structure the code, and avoid trival
remarks about that. They only end up being used inconsistently. If you
even need a stronger visual separator, then an 80 char /****/ line
should be preferred.
constructor functions are ugly, because code is running before
main() starts. Instead, as the registration code for NMSetting types
is insid the GType constructor, we just need to ensure at the
right place, that the GType was created.
The right place here is _register_settings_ensure_inited(), because
that is called before we need the registration information.
Normalizing can be complicated, as settings depend on each other and possibly
conflict.
That is, because verify() must exactly anticipate whether normalization will
succeed and how the result will look like. That is because we only want to
modify the connection, if we are sure that the result will verify.
Hence, verify() and normalize() are strongly related. The implementation
should not be spread out between NMSettingOvsInterface:verify(),
NMSettingOvsPatch:verify() and _normalize_ovs_interface_type().
Also, add some unit-tests.
