dbus/doc/TODO
Havoc Pennington dfd1292d52 2003-09-29 Havoc Pennington <hp@pobox.com>
* Merge dbus-object-names branch. To see the entire patch
	do cvs diff -r DBUS_OBJECT_NAMES_BRANCHPOINT -r dbus-object-names,
	it's huuuuge though.
	To revert, I tagged DBUS_BEFORE_OBJECT_NAMES_MERGE.

2003-09-28  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* HACKING: update to reflect new server

2003-09-26  Seth Nickell  <seth@gnome.org>

	* python/dbus.py:
	* python/examples/example-signals.py:

	Start implementing some notions of signals. The API
	is really terrible, but they sort of work (with the
	exception of being able to filter by service, and to
	transmit signals *as* a particular service). Need to
	figure out how to make messages come from the service
	we registered :-(

	* python/dbus_bindings.pyx.in:

	Removed duplicate message_handler callbacks.

2003-09-25  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* bus/session.conf.in: fix my mess

2003-09-25  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* bus/session.conf.in: fix security policy, reported by Seth Nickell

2003-09-25  Seth Nickell  <seth@gnome.org>

	* python/examples/example-service.py:

	Johan notices complete wrong code in example-service, but
	completely wrong in a way that works exactly the same (!).
	Johan is confused, how could this possibly work? Example
	code fails to serve purpose of making things clear.
	Seth fixes.

2003-09-25  Mark McLoughlin  <mark@skynet.ie>

	* doc/dbus-specification.sgml: don't require header fields
	to be 4-byte aligned and specify that fields should be
	distinguished from padding by the fact that zero is not
	a valid field name.

	* doc/TODO: remove re-alignment item and add item to doc
	the OBJECT_PATH type.

	* dbus/dbus-message.c:
	(HeaderField): rename the original member to value_offset
	and introduce a name_offset member to keep track of where
	the field actually begins.
	(adjust_field_offsets): remove.
	(append_int_field), (append_uint_field),
	(append_string_field): don't align the start of the header
	field to a 4-byte boundary.
	(get_next_field): impl finding the next marhsalled field
	after a given field.
	(re_align_field_recurse): impl re-aligning a number of
	already marshalled fields.
	(delete_field): impl deleting a field of any type and
	re-aligning any following fields.
	(delete_int_or_uint_field), (delete_string_field): remove.
	(set_int_field), (set_uint_field): no need to re-check
	that we have the correct type for the field.
	(set_string_field): ditto and impl re-aligning any
	following fields.
	(decode_header_data): update to take into account that
	the fields aren't 4-byte aligned any more and the new
	way to distinguish padding from header fields. Also,
	don't exit when there is too much header padding.
	(process_test_subdir): print the directory.
	(_dbus_message_test): add test to make sure a following
	field is re-aligned correctly after field deletion.

	* dbus/dbus-string.[ch]:
	(_dbus_string_insert_bytes): rename from insert_byte and
	allow the insert of multiple bytes.
	(_dbus_string_test): test inserting multiple bytes.

	* dbus/dbus-marshal.c: (_dbus_marshal_set_string): add
	warning note to docs about having to re-align any
	marshalled values following the string.

	* dbus/dbus-message-builder.c:
	(append_string_field), (_dbus_message_data_load):
	don't align the header field.

	* dbus/dbus-auth.c: (process_test_subdir): print the
	directory.

	* test/break-loader.c: (randomly_add_one_byte): upd. for
	insert_byte change.

	* test/data/invalid-messages/bad-header-field-alignment.message:
	new test case.

	* test/data/valid-messages/unknown-header-field.message: shove
	a dict in the unknown field.

2003-09-25  Seth Nickell  <seth@gnome.org>

	* python/dbus.py:
	* python/dbus_bindings.pyx.in:

	Handle return values.

	* python/examples/example-client.py:
	* python/examples/example-service.py:

	Pass back return values from the service to the client.

2003-09-24  Seth Nickell  <seth@gnome.org>

	* python/dbus.py:

	Connect Object methods (when you are sharing an object) up... pass
	in a list of methods to be shared. Sharing all the methods just
	worked out too weird. You can now create nice Services over the
	DBus in Python. :-)

	* python/dbus_bindings.pyx.in:

	Keep references to user_data tuples passed into C functions so
	Python doesn't garbage collect on us.

	Implement MethodReturn and Error subclasses of Message for creating
	DBusMessage's of those types.

	* python/examples/example-client.py:
	* python/examples/example-service.py:

	Simple example code showing both how create DBus services and objects,
	and how to use them.

2003-09-23  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.c (dbus_gproxy_manager_filter): implement

2003-09-23  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.c (dbus_gproxy_connect_signal): implement
	(dbus_gproxy_disconnect_signal): implement
	(dbus_gproxy_manager_remove_signal_match): implement
	(dbus_gproxy_manager_add_signal_match): implement
	(dbus_gproxy_oneway_call): implement

2003-09-23  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.c (struct DBusGProxy): convert to a GObject
	subclass. This means dropping the transparent thread safety of the
	proxy; you now need a separate proxy per-thread, or your own
	locking on the proxy. Probably right anyway.
	(dbus_gproxy_ref, dbus_gproxy_unref): nuke, just use g_object_ref

2003-09-22  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.c (dbus_gproxy_manager_get): implement

2003-09-21  Seth Nickell  <seth@gnome.org>

        First checkin of the Python bindings.

	* python/.cvsignore:
	* python/Makefile.am:
	* python/dbus_bindings.pyx.in:
	* python/dbus_h_wrapper.h:

	Pieces for Pyrex to operate on, building a dbus_bindings.so
	python module for low-level access to the DBus APIs.

	* python/dbus.py:

	High-level Python module for accessing DBus objects.

	* configure.in:
	* Makefile.am:

	Build stuff for the python bindings.

	* acinclude.m4:

	Extra macro needed for finding the Python C header files.

2003-09-21  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.c (dbus_gproxy_manager_new): start
	implementing the proxy manager, didn't get very far.

	* dbus/dbus-bus.c (dbus_bus_add_match): new
	(dbus_bus_remove_match): new

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.c (dbus_gproxy_new_for_service): add a
	path_name argument; adjust the other not-yet-implemented
	gproxy constructors to be what I think they should be.

2003-09-21  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-bus.c (dbus_bus_get): set exit_on_disconnect to TRUE
	by default for message bus connections.

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c (dbus_connection_dispatch): exit if
	exit_on_disconnect flag is set and we process the disconnected
	signal.
	(dbus_connection_set_exit_on_disconnect): new function

2003-09-21  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	Get matching rules mostly working in the bus; only actually
	parsing the rule text remains. However, the client side of
	"signal connections" hasn't been started, this patch is only the
	bus side.

	* dbus/dispatch.c: fix for the matching rules changes

	* bus/driver.c (bus_driver_handle_remove_match)
	(bus_driver_handle_add_match): send an ack reply from these
	method calls

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.c (dbus_gproxy_begin_call): fix order of
	arguments, reported by Seth Nickell

	* bus/config-parser.c (append_rule_from_element): support
	eavesdrop=true|false attribute on policies so match rules
	can be prevented from snooping on the system bus.

	* bus/dbus-daemon-1.1.in: consistently use terminology "sender"
	and "destination" in attribute names; fix some docs bugs;
	add eavesdrop=true|false attribute

	* bus/driver.c (bus_driver_handle_add_match)
	(bus_driver_handle_remove_match): handle AddMatch, RemoveMatch
	messages

	* dbus/dbus-protocol.h (DBUS_SERVICE_ORG_FREEDESKTOP_BROADCAST): get
	rid of broadcast service concept, signals are just always broadcast

	* bus/signals.c, bus/dispatch.c, bus/connection.c, bus/bus.c:
	mostly implement matching rules stuff (currently only exposed as signal
	connections)

2003-09-21  Mark McLoughlin  <mark@skynet.ie>

	* doc/dbus-specification.sgml: Change the header field name
	to be an enum and update the rest of the spec to reference
	the fields using the conventinal name.

	* dbus/dbus-protocol.h: update to reflect the spec.

	* doc/TODO: add item to remove the 4 byte alignment requirement.

	* dbus/dbus-message.c: Remove the code to generalise the
	header/body length and serial number header fields as named
	header fields so we can reference field names using the
	protocol values.
	(append_int_field), (append_uint_field), (append_string_field):
	Append the field name as a byte rather than four chars.
	(delete_int_or_uint_field), (delete_string_field): reflect the
	fact that the field name and typecode now occupy 4 bytes instead
	of 8.
	(decode_string_field), (decode_header_data): update to reflect
	protocol changes and move the field specific encoding from
	decode_string_field() back into decode_header_data().

	* dbus/dbus-internals.[ch]: (_dbus_header_field_to_string):
	Add utility to aid debugging.

	* dbus/dbus-message-builder.c:
	(append_string_field), (_dbus_message_data_load): Update to
	reflect protocol changes; Change the FIELD_NAME directive
	to HEADER_FIELD and allow it to take the field's conventional
	name rather than the actual value.

	* test/data/*/*.message: Update to use HEADER_FIELD instead
	of FIELD_NAME; Always align the header on an 8 byte boundary
	*before* updating the header length.

2003-09-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-pending-call.c: add the get/set object data
	boilerplate as for DBusConnection, etc. Use generic object data
	for the notify callback.

	* glib/dbus-gparser.c (parse_node): parse child nodes

	* tools/dbus-viewer.c: more hacking on the dbus-viewer

	* glib/dbus-gutils.c (_dbus_gutils_split_path): add a file to
	contain functions shared between the convenience lib and the
	installed lib

	* glib/Makefile.am (libdbus_glib_1_la_LDFLAGS): add
	-export-symbols-regex to the GLib library

	* dbus/dbus-object-tree.c (_dbus_object_tree_dispatch_and_unlock):
	fix the locking in here, and add a default handler for
	Introspect() that just returns sub-nodes.

2003-09-14  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* glib/dbus-gthread.c (dbus_g_thread_init): rename to make g_foo
	rather than gfoo consistent

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.h: delete for now, move contents to
	dbus-glib.h, because the include files don't work right since we
	aren't in the dbus/ subdir.

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.c (dbus_gproxy_send): finish implementing
	(dbus_gproxy_end_call): finish
	(dbus_gproxy_begin_call): finish

	* glib/dbus-gmain.c (dbus_set_g_error): new

	* glib/dbus-gobject.c (handle_introspect): include information
	about child nodes in the introspection

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c (dbus_connection_list_registered): new
	function to help in implementation of introspection

	* dbus/dbus-object-tree.c
	(_dbus_object_tree_list_registered_and_unlock): new function

2003-09-12  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* glib/dbus-gidl.h: add common base class for all the foo_info
	types

        * tools/dbus-viewer.c: add GTK-based introspection UI thingy
	similar to kdcop

	* test/Makefile.am: try test srcdir -ef . in addition to test
	srcdir = ., one of them should work (yeah lame)

        * glib/Makefile.am: build the "idl" parser stuff as a convenience
	library

	* glib/dbus-gparser.h: make description_load routines return
	NodeInfo* not Parser*

	* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): build test dir after all library dirs

	* configure.in: add GTK+ detection

2003-09-07  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* Make Doxygen contented.

2003-09-07  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* doc/dbus-specification.sgml: more updates

2003-09-06  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* doc/dbus-specification.sgml: partial updates

	* bus/dbus-daemon-1.1.in: fix the config file docs for the
	zillionth time; hopefully I edited the right file this time.

	* bus/config-parser.c (append_rule_from_element): support
	send_type, send_path, receive_type, receive_path

	* bus/policy.c: add message type and path to the list of things
	that can be "firewalled"

2003-09-06  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c (dbus_connection_register_fallback): add this
	(dbus_connection_register_object_path): make this not handle
	messages to paths below the given path

2003-09-03  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* test/glib/Makefile.am: add this with random glib-linked test
	programs

	* glib/Makefile.am: remove the random test programs from here,
	leave only the unit tests

	* glib/dbus-gobject.c (_dbus_gobject_test): add test for
	uscore/javacaps conversion, and fix
	(get_object_property, set_object_property): change to .NET
	convention for mapping props to methods, set_FooBar/get_FooBar,
	since one language has such a convention we may as well copy it.
	Plus real methods in either getFooBar or get_foo_bar style won't
	collide with this convention.

2003-09-01  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* glib/dbus-gparser.c: implement

	* glib/dbus-gobject.c: start implementing skeletons support

	* configure.in: when disabling checks/assert, also define
	G_DISABLE_ASSERT and G_DISABLE_CHECKS

2003-09-01  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* glib/Makefile.am: rearrange a bunch of files and get "make
	check" framework set up

2003-08-31  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* fix build with --disable-tests

2003-08-30  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c: purge DBusMessageHandler

	* dbus/dbus-message-handler.c: remove DBusMessageHandler, just
	use callbacks everywhere

2003-08-30  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* test/data/valid-config-files/system.d/test.conf: change to
	root for the user so warnings don't get printed

	* dbus/dbus-message.c: add dbus_message_get_path,
	dbus_message_set_path

	* dbus/dbus-object-tree.c (do_test_dispatch): add test of
	dispatching to a path

	* dbus/dbus-string.c (_dbus_string_validate_path): add

	* dbus/dbus-marshal.c (_dbus_demarshal_object_path): implement
	(_dbus_marshal_object_path): implement

	* dbus/dbus-protocol.h (DBUS_HEADER_FIELD_PATH): new header field
	to contain the path to the target object
	(DBUS_HEADER_FIELD_SENDER_SERVICE): rename
	DBUS_HEADER_FIELD_SENDER to explicitly say it's the sender service

2003-08-30  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-object-tree.c: write tests and fix the discovered bugs

2003-08-29  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-object-tree.c: modify to allow overlapping paths to be
	registered
	(struct DBusObjectSubtree): shrink this
	a lot, since we may have a lot of them
	(_dbus_object_tree_free_all_unlocked): implement
	(_dbus_object_tree_dispatch_and_unlock): implement

2003-08-29  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-internals.h: fix _DBUS_N_GLOBAL_LOCKS

2003-08-28  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	purge DBusObjectID

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c: port to no ObjectID, create a
	DBusObjectTree, rename ObjectTree to ObjectPath in public API

	* dbus/dbus-connection.h (struct DBusObjectTreeVTable): delete
	everything except UnregisterFunction and MessageFunction

	* dbus/dbus-marshal.c: port away from DBusObjectID,
	add DBUS_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.[hc], dbus/dbus-object.[hc],
	dbus/dbus-objectid.[hc]: remove these, we are moving to
	path-based object IDs

2003-08-25  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

        Just noticed that dbus_message_test is hosed, I wonder when I
	broke that. I thought make check was passing earlier...

	* dbus/dbus-object-tree.c: add new "object tree" to match DCOP
	container tree, will replace most of dbus-object-registry

	* dbus/dbus-string.c (_dbus_string_append_printf_valist): fix C99
	screwup

2003-08-19  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-message.c (decode_string_field): support FIELD_SENDER
	(dbus_message_is_error): fix this function

	* bus/dbus-daemon-1.1: clarify logic on when <deny>/<allow> rules
	match

	* bus/policy.c (bus_client_policy_check_can_receive): fix code to
	reflect clarified man page
	(bus_client_policy_check_can_send): ditto

	* bus/session.conf.in: fixup

	* bus/system.conf.in: fixup

2003-08-18  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* dbus/dbus-hash.c (_dbus_hash_table_insert_two_strings): fix

	* dbus/dbus-message.c (_dbus_message_loader_queue_messages): fix
	dumb bug created earlier (wrong order of args to
	decode_header_data())

	* tools/dbus-send.c: port

	* tools/dbus-print-message.c (print_message): port

        * test/data/*messages: port all messages over

        * dbus/dbus-message-builder.c: support including
	message type

        * bus/driver.c: port over

	* bus/dispatch.c: port over to new stuff

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c (_dbus_connection_new_for_transport):
	rename disconnect signal to "Disconnected"

2003-08-17  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	This doesn't compile yet, but syncing up so I can hack on it from
	work. What are branches for if not broken code? ;-)

	* dbus/dbus-protocol.h: remove DBUS_HEADER_FIELD_NAME, add
	DBUS_HEADER_FIELD_INTERFACE, DBUS_HEADER_FIELD_MEMBER,
	DBUS_HEADER_FIELD_ERROR_NAME

	* dbus/dbus-hash.c: Introduce DBUS_HASH_TWO_STRINGS as hack to use
	for the interface+member pairs
	(string_hash): change to use g_str_hash algorithm
	(find_direct_function, find_string_function): refactor these to
	share most code.

	* dbus/dbus-message.c: port all of this over to support
	interface/member fields instead of name field

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.c: port over

	* dbus/dbus-string.c (_dbus_string_validate_interface): rename
	from _dbus_string_validate_name

	* bus/dbus-daemon-1.1: change file format for the
	<deny>/<allow> stuff to match new message naming scheme

	* bus/policy.c: port over

	* bus/config-parser.c: parse new format

2003-08-16  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.c (add_and_remove_objects): remove
	broken assertion

	* glib/dbus-gproxy.c: some hacking

2003-08-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* dbus/dbus-pending-call.c (dbus_pending_call_block): implement

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c
	(dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block): factor out internals;
	change to convert any error replies to DBusError instead of
	returning them as a message

2003-08-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c,
	dbus/dbus-pending-call.c: Finish the pending call stuff

2003-08-14  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* dbus/dbus-pending-call.c: start on new object that will replace
	DBusMessageHandler and ReplyHandlerData for tracking outstanding
	replies

	* dbus/dbus-gproxy.c: start on proxy object used to communicate
	with remote interfaces

	* dbus/dbus-gidl.c: do the boring boilerplate in here

2003-08-12  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* bus/dispatch.c (bus_dispatch): make this return proper
	DBusHandlerResult to avoid DBUS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_METHOD

	* dbus/dbus-errors.c (dbus_set_error): use
	_dbus_string_append_printf_valist

	* dbus/dbus-string.c (_dbus_string_append_printf_valist)
	(_dbus_string_append_printf): new

	* dbus/dbus-errors.h (DBUS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_MESSAGE): change to
	UNKNOWN_METHOD

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c (dbus_connection_dispatch): handle
	DBUS_HANDLER_RESULT_NEED_MEMORY; send default error reply if a
	message is unhandled.

2003-08-11  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* bus/test.c (client_disconnect_handler): change to return
	HANDLED (would have been REMOVE_MESSAGE)

	* dbus/dbus-object.h (enum DBusHandlerResult): rename to
	HANDLED/NOT_YET_HANDLED instead of
	REMOVE_MESSAGE/ALLOW_MORE_HANDLERS to make it clearer how it
	should be used.

2003-08-10  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* tools/dbus-send.c (main): add --type argument, for now
	supporting only method_call and signal types.

	* tools/dbus-print-message.c: print message type

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c (_dbus_connection_new_for_transport):
	init connection->objects

	* doc/dbus-specification.sgml: fix sgml

	* bus/*.c: port over to object-instance API changes

	* test/test-service.c: ditto

	* dbus/dbus-message.c (dbus_message_create_header): allow #NULL
	name, we will have to fix up the rest of the code to also handle
	this
	(dbus_message_new): generic message-creation call
	(set_string_field): allow appending name field

2003-08-06  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.c: implement signal connection
	and dispatch

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c (_dbus_connection_unref_unlocked): new

	* dbus/dbus-internals.c (_dbus_memdup): new function

2003-08-02  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-message.c (dbus_message_get_no_reply)
	(dbus_message_set_no_reply): add these and remove
	set_is_error/get_is_error

	* dbus/dbus-protocol.h, doc/dbus-specification.sgml:
	remove the ERROR flag, since there's now an ERROR type

2003-08-01  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.c (_dbus_object_registry_handle_and_unlock):
	implement

	* dbus/dbus-message.c (dbus_message_get_type): new function

	* doc/dbus-specification.sgml: add "type" byte to messages

2003-08-01  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-protocol.h (DBUS_MESSAGE_TYPE_*): introduce
	a message type enum to distinguish kinds of message
	(DBUS_HEADER_FLAG_NO_REPLY_EXPECTED): flag for a message
	that need not be replied to

2003-08-01  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-marshal.c: adapt to DBusObjectID changes
	(unpack_8_octets): fix no-64-bit-int bug

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.c (validate_id): validate the
	connection ID bits, not just the instance ID.

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c (_dbus_connection_init_id): initialize
	the connection-global 33 bits of the object ID

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.c (info_from_entry): fill in
	object ID in the new way

	* dbus/dbus-objectid.h: rather than high/low bits, specifically
	define server/client/instance bits.

2003-07-30  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c (dbus_connection_register_object): fix
	build

2003-07-13  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-object.h (struct DBusObjectVTable): add padding
	fields to DBusObjectVTable and DBusObjectInfo

2003-07-12  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.c: implement unit test,
	fix bugs discovered in process

	* dbus/dbus-connection.c: remove handler_table and
	register_handler(), add DBusObjectRegistry usage

	* dbus/dbus-objectid.c (dbus_object_id_is_null)
	(dbus_object_id_set_null): new functions

2003-07-08  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-object.c: implement some of this

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.c
	(_dbus_object_registry_add_and_unlock): fill in the object_id out
	param
	(_dbus_object_registry_new): handle OOM

2003-07-08  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-object.h: sketch out an API for registering objects
	with a connection, that allows us to use as little as 24 bytes
	per object and lets application code represent an object in
	any conceivable way.

	* dbus/dbus-object-registry.c: implement the hard bits of the
	DBusConnection aspect of object API. Not yet wired up.

2003-07-06  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-marshal.c (_dbus_marshal_set_object_id): new function
	(_dbus_marshal_object_id): new
	(_dbus_demarshal_object_id): new
	(_dbus_marshal_get_arg_end_pos): support object ID type, and
	consolidate identical switch cases. Don't conditionalize handling
	of DBUS_TYPE_UINT64, need to handle the type always.
	(_dbus_marshal_validate_arg): consolidate identical cases, and
	handle DBUS_TYPE_OBJECT_ID

	* dbus/dbus-objectid.c: new file with DBusObjectID data type.

	* dbus/dbus-protocol.h: add DBUS_TYPE_OBJECT_ID

2003-09-28  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* real 0.13 release

2003-09-28  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* doc/Makefile.am (dbus-specification.html): testing a funky hack
	to work with Debian db2html

2003-09-28  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* configure.in: 0.13

	* doc/Makefile.am (dbus-test-plan.html): accept nonexistence of
	stylesheet-images for benefit of Debian

	Change back to using filesystem-linked sockets for the system
	bus, so only root can create the default system bus address.

	* bus/system.conf.in: change to use
	DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS

	* dbus/Makefile.am (INCLUDES): remove DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_PATH define
	from here.

	* configure.in: define DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS
	here, and AC_DEFINE DBUS_SYSTEM_PATH

2003-08-09  Anders Carlsson  <andersca@codefactory.se>

	* doc/TODO:
	* doc/busconfig.dtd:
	Add busconfig DTD.

2003-08-09  Anders Carlsson  <andersca@codefactory.se>

	* doc/dbus-specification.sgml:
	Add activation reply values.

2003-08-05  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* configure.in: 0.12

2003-08-05  Anders Carlsson  <andersca@codefactory.se>

	* glib/dbus-gmain.c: (watch_fd_new), (watch_fd_ref),
	(watch_fd_unref), (dbus_gsource_check), (dbus_gsource_dispatch),
	(add_watch), (remove_watch), (create_source):
	Refcount fds, fixes some reentrancy issues.

2003-07-30  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* dbus/dbus-bus.c (init_connections_unlocked): fix default system
	bus address to be abstract if we have abstract sockets

	* NEWS: update

2003-07-28  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* bus/messagebus.in: fix to avoid processname/servicename
	confusion, from Michael Kearey
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100965

2003-07-23  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* dbus/dbus-message.c (dbus_message_iter_get_named):
	fix from Andy Hanton to remove broken "+1"

2003-07-16  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* tools/dbus-launch.c (babysit): close stdout/stderr in the
	babysitter process, as suggested by Thomas Leonard, so
	an "eval `dbus-launch --exit-with-session`" will actually
	return

2003-07-16  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

	* configure.in: print out EXPANDED_* variables in the summary at
	the end; clean up the code that computes EXPANDED_ variables and
	get the ones using exec_prefix right. Should make things work
	when you build without --prefix
2003-09-30 02:33:11 +00:00

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- Message matching rules (so broadcasts can be filtered) need sorting
out.
- How we will handle DCOP needs sorting out. Among other things, we
need to check that service and service-ownership semantics map to DCOP
reasonably well.
- Activation needs some careful additional thinking-through.
- 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.
- Automatic service activation, should probably be done through a message flag.
- Disconnecting the remote end on invalid UTF-8 is probably not a good
idea. The definitiion of "valid" is slightly fuzzy. I think it might
be better to just silently "fix" the UTF-8, or perhaps return an error.
Owen says we should only validate the UTF-8 on dbus_message_get_string()
(changing get_string to have an error return, and allowing a type error
as a possible return)
- The convenience functions in dbus-bus.h should perhaps have
the signatures that they would have if they were autogenerated
stubs. e.g. the acquire service function. We should also evaluate
which of these functions to include, in light of the fact that
GLib/Qt native stubs will probably also exist.
- The message handler interface needs rethinking, perhaps handlers should be able
to return an error that automatically gets turned into a message; most likely
some basic spec'ing out of the GLib/Qt level stubs/skels stuff will be
needed to understand the right approach.
- there are various bits of code to manage ref/unref of data slots, that should
be merged into a generic facility
- assorted _-prefixed symbols in libdbus aren't actually used by
libdbus, only by the message bus. These bloat up the library
size. Not sure how to fix, really.
- if you send a message to a service then block for reply, and the service exits/crashes
after the message bus has processed your message but before the service has replied,
it would be nice if the message bus sent you an error reply.
- 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.
- <limit> elements are not merged in from included configuration
files; they have to be in the toplevel file. when loading
a child file, we could just init its DBusLimits from the parent,
then after parsing copy its DBusLimits back to the parent
- 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.
- the invalid messages in the test suite are all useless because
they are invalid for the wrong reasons due to protocol changes
- I don't want to introduce DBusObject, but refcounting and object
data could still be factored out into an internal "base class"
perhaps.
- modify the auth protocol to also support other initial-handshake
type of information
- document the auth protocol as a set of states and transitions, and
then reimplement it in those terms
- dbus_gproxy or dbus_g_proxy?
- add dbus_message_has_path(), maybe has_member/interface
- The OBJECT_PATH type is not documented in the spec.