The API level is disconnected from the NVIM version. The API metadata
holds the current API level, and the lowest backwards-compatible level
supported by this instance.
Release 0.1.6 will be the first release reporting the Nvim version and
API level.
metadata['version'] = {
major: 0,
minor: 1,
patch: 6,
prerelease: true,
api_level: 1,
api_compatible: 0,
}
The API level may remain unchanged across Neovim releases if the API has
not changed.
When changing the API the CMake variable NVIM_API_PRERELEASE is set to
true, and NVIM_API_CURRENT/NVIM_API_COMPATIBILITY are incremented
accordingly.
The functional tests check the API table against fixtures of past
versions of Neovim. It compares all the functions in the old table with
the new one, it does ignore some metadata attributes that do not alter
the function signature or were removed since 0.1.5. Currently the only
fixture is 0.mpack, generated from Neovim 0.1.5 with nvim --api-info.
It is otherwise impossible to determine which test failed sanitizer/valgrind
check. test/functional/helpers.lua module return was changed so that tests which
do not provide after_each function to get new check will automatically fail.
Adds two undocumented v: variables: _null_list and _null_dict because I do not
know a reproducible way to get such lists (though I think I heard about this)
and dictionaries (do not remember hearing about them). NULL strings are obtained
using $XXX_UNEXISTENT_VAR_XXX.
Fixes crash in json_encode($XXX_UNEXISTENT_VAR_XXX). Other added tests worked
fine before this commit.
