dbus/doc/TODO
Colin Walters 8c095eea8f 2005-07-10 Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
* doc/TODO: Knock off some GLib items with this patch.

	* glib/dbus-gvalue-utils.c (_dbus_gtype_can_signal_error)
	(_dbus_gvalue_signals_error): New functions.

	* glib/dbus-gvalue-utils.h: Prototype them.

	* glib/dbus-gobject.c (arg_iterate): Update to handle return vals
	and change to not output const/retval flags for input args.  All
	callers updated.
	(invoke_object_method): Refactor to handle return values.  Add
	some more comments in various places.  Remove debug g_print.

	* glib/dbus-binding-tool-glib.h (DBUS_GLIB_ANNOTATION_RETURNVAL): New.

	* glib/dbus-binding-tool-glib.c (dbus_g_type_get_marshal_name):
	Handle G_TYPE_NONE.
	(compute_gsignature): New function; refactored from code from
	compute_marshaller and compute_marshaller_name.  Enhance to
	handle return values and async ops more cleanly.  Update for
	async ops returning NONE instead of BOOLEAN.
	(compute_marshaller, compute_marshaller_name): Call compute_gsignature
	and output appropriate string.
	(generate_glue): Handle return value annotation.  Also don't dump
	constness flag for input arguments.

	* glib/Makefile.am (DBUS_GLIB_INTERNALS): New variable; contains
	files shared between installed library and utilities.
	(libdbus_glib_1_la_SOURCES): Move some stuf into DBUS_GLIB_INTERNALS.
	(libdbus_gtool_la_SOURCES): Suck in DBUS_GLIB_INTERNALS so the
	binding tool can access gtype utility functions.

	* test/glib/test-service-glib.c:
	* test/glib/test-service-glib.xml:
	* test/glib/test-dbus-glib.c: Add some tests for return values.
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Important for 1.0
===
- Remove all deprecated functions
- Audit @todo and FIXME for security issues
- the "break loader" and valid/invalid message tests are all disabled;
they need to be fixed and re-enabled with the new message args stuff.
I think I want to drop the .message files thing and just have code
that generates messages, more like the tests for
dbus-marshal-recursive.c (this is mostly done now, just needs some
cleanup)
- need to define bus behavior if you send a message to
yourself; is it an error, or allowed? If allowed,
we need to have a test for it in the test suite.
- just before 1.0, try a HAVE_INT64=0 build and be sure it runs
- dbus-pending-call.c has some API and thread safety issues to review
- Add test harness for selinux allow/deny cf. this message
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2005-April/002506.html
- Add a test case for handling the Ping message
Important for 1.0 GLib Bindings
===
- Test point-to-point mode
- Add support for getting sender
Might as Well for 1.0
===
- protocol version in each message is pretty silly
Can Be Post 1.0
===
- if the GUID is obtained only during authentication, not in the address,
we could still share the connection
- Allow a dbus_g_proxy_to_string()/g_object_to_string() that
would convert the proxy to an "IOR" and dbus_g_proxy_from_string()
that would decode; using these, dbus-glib users could avoid
DBusConnection entirely. Of course the same applies to other kinds
of binding. This would use dbus_connection_open()'s connection-sharing
feature to avoid massive proliferation of connections.
- DBusWatchList/TimeoutList duplicate a lot of code, as do
protected_change_watch/protected_change_timeout in dbus-connection.c
and dbus-server.c. This could all be mopped up, cut-and-paste
fixed, code size reduced.
- change .service files to allow Names=list in addition to Name=string
- The message bus internal code still says "service" for
"name", "base service" for "unique name", "activate" for
"start"; would be nice to clean up.
- Property list feature on message bus (list of properties associated
with a connection). May also include message matching rules
that involve the properties of the source or destination
connection.
- Disconnecting the remote end on invalid UTF-8 is probably not a good
idea. The definition of "valid" is slightly fuzzy. I think it might
be better to just silently "fix" the UTF-8, or perhaps return an error.
- build and install the Doxygen manual in Makefile when --enable-docs
- if you send the same message to multiple connections, the serial number
will only be right for one of them. Probably need to just write() the serial
number, rather than putting it in the DBusMessage, or something.
- perhaps the bus driver should have properties that reflect attributes
of the session, such as hostname, architecture, operating system,
etc. Could be useful for code that wants to special-case behavior
for a particular host or class of hosts, for example.
- currently the security policy stuff for messages to/from
the bus driver is kind of strange; basically it's hardcoded that
you can always talk to the driver, but the default config file
has rules for it anyway, or something. it's conceptually
screwy at the moment.
- when making a method call, if the call serial were globally unique,
we could forward the call serial along with any method calls made
as a result of the first method call, and allow reentrancy that was
strictly part of the call stack of said method call. But I don't
really see how to do this without making the user pass around the
call serial to all method calls all the time, or disallowing
async calls.
If done post 1.0 will probably be an optional/ugly-API type
of thing.
- I don't want to introduce DBusObject, but refcounting and object
data could still be factored out into an internal "base class"
perhaps.
- document the auth protocol as a set of states and transitions, and
then reimplement it in those terms
- recursive dispatch, see dbus_connection_dispatch()
- do we need per-display activation; if so I'd like to do this by setting a
"display ID" property on screen 0, with a GUID, and keying activation by
said GUID. Otherwise you get all kinds of unrobust
string/hostname-based mess. per-screen is then done by appending screen number
to the display. If displays have a deterministic ID like this, you can
do per-display by simply including GUID in the service name.
- optimization and profiling!
Should Be Post 1.0
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- look into supporting the concept of a "connection" generically