This allows nesting variants, i.e. allows a variant to contain another variant as its value. Until now, there was no such possibility, since the default generated copy constructor would be invoked which would create a copy of source variant instead of embed the source variant as a value in the destination variant. The default generated copy constructor is kept, for it makes sense too, but a new tag-based overload is added for embedding the source variant into the destination variant.
This extends the functionality of SDBUSCPP_REGISTER_STRUCT macro.
It now provides functionality for serializing a user-defined struct as an a{sv} dictionary, and for deserializing an a{sv} dictionary into a user-defined struct. The former one is achieved by decorating the struct with sdbus::as_dictionary(struct), the latter one is an automatic behavior -- when sdbus-c++ is asked to deserialize into a struct but the data in the message is of type a{sv}, then the dict-to-struct deserialization is performed automatically.
There are some aspects of behavior in the serialization/deserialization functionality that can be customized by the client. Newly introduced SDBUSCPP_ENABLE_NESTED_STRUCT2DICT_SERIALIZATION and SDBUSCPP_ENABLE_RELAXED_DICT2STRUCT_DESERIALIZATION macros serve the purpose.
Until now, the solution to ensure that even large messages are fully sent out has been to flush the connection queues after each sending of a message, which is likely an unnecessary call (with unnecessary cost) in vast majority of cases, and which may block the connection from doing other work until the large message is fully sent out. This was a rather quick, hacky workaround.
Now, after the sending the message we check whether it has been sent out fully or not. If not (outbound queues are non-empty), then we send a wake-up signal to the connection event loop. The event loop thread then fetches new sd-bus timeouts and events and will see that there are pending outbound messages to process, and will process them together with any other prospective pending events, until there is nothing to process (i.e., the outbound message has been fully dispatched).
This introduces strong types for `std::string`-based D-Bus types. This facilitates safer, less error-prone and more expressive API.
What previously was `auto proxy = createProxy("org.sdbuscpp.concatenator", "/org/sdbuscpp/concatenator");` is now written like `auto proxy = createProxy(ServiceName{"org.sdbuscpp.concatenator"}, ObjectPath{"/org/sdbuscpp/concatenator"});`.
These types are:
* `ObjectPath` type for the object path (the type has been around already but now is also used consistently in sdbus-c++ API for object path strings),
* `InterfaceName` type for D-Bus interface names,
* `BusName` (and its aliases `ServiceName` and `ConnectionName`) type for bus/service/connection names,
* `MemberName` (and its aliases `MethodName`, `SignalName` and `PropertyName`) type for D-Bus method, signal and property names,
* `Signature` type for the D-Bus signature (the type has been around already but now is also used consistently in sdbus-c++ API for signature strings),
* `Error::Name` type for D-Bus error names.
This also introduces `always_false` technique instead of `sizeof` trick for unsupported D-Bus type representation static assert. This one is more expressive and leads to more specific, more revealing compiler error messages.
* feat: support serialization of array, span and unordered_map
* fix some spelling mistakes
* docs: update table of valid c++ types
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Co-authored-by: Marcel Hellwig <github@cookiesoft.de>
Stanislav Angelovič
Stanislav Angelovic
Marcel Hellwig
Urs Ritzmann
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