* Use a more complete API to introspect SPA types
* Avoid the need for the Tables enumeration; the tables
are now registered with a string
* Avoid the need for initialization, work directly on spa_types
and other static data
* Allow working with Object pods that are not Params;
the PARAMS table was previously hardcoded in the pod implementation
* Add a different dynamic type registration system, closer to
how spa type works. The only regression is that we can no longer
register additional custom object fields (custom SPA_PROP_* for example),
but this feature can be re-added later
- make it a GObject so that it can emit its own signals
and so that it can be shared between multiple proxies
- share the WpProps instance between endpoints, endpoint-streams
and their underlying nodes
- introduce the concept of the caching mode that redirects _set
to _set_param of the proxy that actually has the props; this allows
shared WpProps to actually set changes on the correct proxy
in a transparent way
- change methods to consume the ref of the pod and reflect that
also on wp_proxy_set_prop()
- refactor the export process on endpoints & endpoint-streams
so that they always get all the required features (info, props, bound)
and make it async so that we can take time to prepare the underlying
node to have FEATURE_PROPS
- update the props & endpoint unit tests, bringing back all the
checks that the endpoint unit test used to have
+ rename FEATURE_CONTROLS to FEATURE_PROPS
+ add accessor for the standard spa_param_info (info->params)
+ hide the low-level params API that nobody uses
There are 3 kinds of WpProxy objects:
* the ones that are created as a result of binding a global
from the registry
* the ones that are created as a result of calling into a remote
factory (wp_node_new_from_factory, etc...)
* the ones that are a local implementation of an object
(WpImplNode, etc...) and are exported
Previously the object manager was only able to track the first kind.
With these changes we can now also have globals associated with
WpProxies that were created earlier (and caused the creation of the global).
This saves some resources and reduces round-trips (in case client
code wants to change properties of an object that is locally
implemented, it shouldn't need to do a round-trip through the server)
* core no longer exposes create_remote/local_object
* node, device & link have constructor methods
to enable the create_remote_object functionality
* added WpImplNode to wrap pw_impl_node and allow creating
"local" node instances
* added WpSpaDevice to wrap spa_device and allow creating
"local" device instances
* exporting objects in all cases now happens by requesting
FEATURE_BOUND from the proxy, eliminating the need for WpExported
* replaced WpMonitor by new, simpler code directly in module-monitor
* the proxy type lookup table in WpProxy is gone, we now
use a field on the class structure of every WpProxy subclass
and iterate through all the class structures instead; this is
more flexible and extensible
+ use the pw_proxy API to find the bound id instead
of relying on WpGlobal
This has the advantage that it works also for exported
objects and for objects that have been created by calling
into a remote factory (such as the link-factory), so we can
now know the global id of all proxies, not only the ones
that have been created by the registry.
* rework how global objects are stored in the core
* rework how users get notified about global objects
and proxies of remote global objects
The purpose of this change is to have a class that can manage
objects that are registered in the core or signalled through the
registry. This object can declare interest on certain types
of global objects and only keep & signal those objects that it is
interested in. Additionally, it can prepare proxy features and
asynchronously deliver an 'objects-changed' signal, which is
basically telling us that the list of objects has changed.
This is useful to simplify port proxies management in WpAudioStream.
Now the stream object can declare that it is interested in ports
that have "node.id" == X and the object manager will only maintain
a list of those. Additionally, it will emit the 'objects-changed'
signal when the list of ports is complete, so there is no reason to
do complex operations and core syncs in the WpAudioStream class
in order to figure out when the list of ports is ready.
As a side effect, this also reduces resource management. Now we
don't construct a WpProxy for every global that pipewire reports;
we only construct proxies when there is interest in them!
Another interesting side effect is that we can now register an
object manager at any point in time and get immediately notified
about remote globals that already exist. i.e. when you register
an object manager that is interested in nodes, it will be immediately
notified about all the existing nodes in the graph. This is useful
to avoid race conditions between connecting the signal and objects
beting created in pipewire
PipeWire headers were recently cleaned up to reduce the number of
included headers. This leads to a number of functions and types not
being included when needed in wireplumber.
