Completely refactor the team/JSON handling in libnm's NMSettingTeam and
NMSettingTeamPort.
- team handling was added as rh#1398925. The goal is to have a more
convenient way to set properties than constructing JSON. This requires
libnm to implement the hard task of parsing JSON (and exposing well-understood
properties) and generating JSON (based on these "artificial" properties).
But not only libnm. In particular nmcli and the D-Bus API must make this
"simpler" API accessible.
- since NMSettingTeam and NMSettingTeamPort are conceptually the same,
add "libnm-core/nm-team-utils.h" and NMTeamSetting that tries to
handle the similar code side-by-sdie.
The setting classes now just delegate for everything to NMTeamSetting.
- Previously, there was a very fuzzy understanding of the provided
JSON config. Tighten that up, when setting a JSON config it
regenerates/parses all other properties and tries to make the
best of it. When modifying any abstraction property, the entire
JSON config gets regenerated. In particular, don't try to merge
existing JSON config with the new fields. If the user uses the
abstraction API, then the entire JSON gets replaced.
For example note that nm_setting_team_add_link_watcher() would not
be reflected in the JSON config (a bug). That only accidentally worked
because client would serializing the changed link watcher to
GVariant/D-Bus, then NetworkManager would set it via g_object_set(),
which would renerate the JSON, and finally persist it to disk. But
as far as libnm is concerned, nm_setting_team_add_link_watcher() would
bring the settings instance in an inconsistent state where JSON and
the link watcher property disagree. Setting any property must
immediately update both the JSON and the abstraction API.
- when constucting a team setting from D-Bus, we would previously parse
both "config" and abstraction properties. That is wrong. Since our
settings plugins only support JSON, all information must be present
in the JSON config anyway. So, when "config" is present, only the JSON
must be parsed. In the best case, the other information is redudant and
contributes nothing. In the worse case, they information differs
(which might happen if the client version differs from the server
version). As the settings plugin only supports JSON, it's wrong to
consider redundant, differing information from D-Bus.
- we now only convert string to JSON or back when needed. Previously,
setting a property resulted in parsing several JSON multiple times
(per property). All operations should now scale well and be reasonably
efficient.
- also the property-changed signals are now handled correctly. Since
NMTeamSetting knows the current state of all attributes, it can emit
the exact property changed signals for what changed.
- we no longer use libjansson to generate the JSON. JSON is supposed
to be a machine readable exchange format, hence a major goal is
to be easily handled by applications. While parsing JSON is not so
trivial, writing a well-known set of values to JSON is.
The advantage is that when you build libnm without libjansson support,
then we still can convert the artificial properties to JSON.
- Requiring libjansson in libnm is a burden, because most of the time
it is not needed (as most users don't create team configurations). With
this change we only require it to parse the team settings (no longer to
write them). It should be reasonably simple to use a more minimalistic
JSON parser that is sufficient for us, so that we can get rid of the
libjansson dependency (for libnm). This also avoids the pain that we have
due to the symbol collision of libjansson and libjson-glib.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691619
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