- Initialize variables before validating argument count to remove possibility of
freeing uninitialized pointers
- Set the error when the argument count validation fails
This simplifies the generated msgpack_rpc_dispatch() function, separates the
code for each RPC method more clearly and allows easy implementation of
alternative dispatching methods (e.g. string method id dispatch).
This is how API dispatching worked before this commit:
- The generated `msgpack_rpc_dispatch` function receives a the `msgpack_packer`
argument.
- The response is incrementally built while validating/calling the API.
- Return values/errors are also packed into the `msgpack_packer` while the
final response is being calculated.
Now the `msgpack_packer` argument is no longer provided, and the
`msgpack_rpc_dispatch` function returns `Object`/`Error` values to
`msgpack_rpc_call`, which will use those values to build the response in a
single pass.
This was done because the new `channel_send_call` function created the
possibility of having recursive API invocations, and this wasn't possible when
sharing a single `msgpack_sbuffer` across call frames(it was shared implicitly
through the `msgpack_packer` instance).
Since we only start to build the response when the necessary information has
been computed, it's now safe to share a single `msgpack_sbuffer` instance
across all channels and API invocations.
Some other changes also had to be performed:
- Handling of the metadata discover was moved to `msgpack_rpc_call`
- Expose more types as subtypes of `Object`, this was required to forward the
return value from `msgpack_rpc_dispatch` to `msgpack_rpc_call`
- Added more helper macros for casting API types to `Object`
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- The 'stripdecls.py' script replaces declarations in all headers by includes to
generated headers.
`ag '#\s*if(?!ndef NEOVIM_).*((?!#\s*endif).*\n)*#ifdef INCLUDE_GENERATED'`
was used for this.
- Add and integrate gendeclarations.lua into the build system to generate the
required includes.
- Add -Wno-unused-function
- Made a bunch of old-style definitions ANSI
This adds a requirement: all type and structure definitions must be present
before INCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS-protected include.
Warning: mch_expandpath (path.h.generated.h) was moved manually. So far it is
the only exception.
- Leave src as include dir (for includes to recognize 'nvim/' prefix).
- Change subdirectory from src to src/nvim.
- Fix msgpack generation.
- Fix some other paths to new locations.
- Split functions with multiple files in the 'api' subdirectory
- Move/Add more types in the 'api/defs.h' header
- Add more prototypes
- Refactor scripts/msgpack-gen.lua
- Move msgpack modules to 'os' subdirectory
This adds a lua script which parses the contents of 'api.h'. After the api is
parsed into a metadata table. After that, it will generate:
- A msgpack blob for the metadata table. This msgpack object contains everything
scripting engines need to generate their own wrappers for the remote API.
- The `msgpack_rpc_dispatch` function, which takes care of validating msgpack
requests, converting arguments to C types and passing control to the
appropriate 'api.h' function. The result is then serialized back to msgpack
and returned to the client.
This approach was used because:
- It automatically modifies `msgpack_rpc_dispatch` to reflect API changes.
- Scripting engines that generate remote call wrappers using the msgpack
metadata will also adapt automatically to API changes
