Moving adaptor or proxy instances changes their `this` pointer. But `this` is captured by value in closures used by those instances, and this remains unchanged on move, leading to accessing an invalid instance when a lambda expression executes. Supporting move semantics would require unsubscribing/unregistering vtable, handlers, etc. and re-subscribing and re-registering all that, which is too complicated and may have side effects. Hence it has been decided that these classes are not moveable. One may use an indirection with e.g. `std::unique_ptr` to get move semantics.
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 PR makes things around connection factories a little more consistent and more intuitive:
* createConnection() has been removed. One shall call more expressive createSystemConnection() instead to get a connection to the system bus.
* createDefaultBusConnection() has been renamed to createBusConnection(), so as not to be confused with libsystemd's default_bus, which is a different thing (a reusable thread-local bus).
Proxies still by default call createBusConnection() to get a connection when the connection is not provided explicitly by the caller, but now createBusConnection() does a different thing, so now the proxies connect to either session bus or system bus depending on the context (as opposed to always to system bus like before).
The integration tests were modified to use createBusConnection().
Signatures of callbacks async_reply_handler, signal_handler, message_handler and property_set_callback were modified to take input message objects by value, as opposed to non-const ref.
The callee assumes ownership of the message. This API is more idiomatic, more expressive, cleaner and safer. Move semantics is used to pass messages to the callback handlers. In some cases, this also improves performance.
* feat: add support for direct connections
* refactor: simplify a bit, change comments, extend tests
* fix: compiler warning about unused variable
* docs: add section on direct connections to the tutorial
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Co-authored-by: Maksim Fedyarov <m.fedyarov@omp.ru>
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Even though they have the same value, they are something fundamentally different.
Therefore it is extremely confusing if the constant INTERFACE_NAME is passed
where actually a well-known BUS_NAME (destination) should go.
* fix: minor documentation and test improvements
* doc: add link to tests in standard interfaces tutorial secion
* Update README.md
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* Update docs/using-sdbus-c++.md
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* Use cmake instead of make in build instructions
Co-authored-by: Stanislav Angelovic <stanislav.angelovic@siemens.com>
Co-authored-by: Urs Ritzmann <urs.ritzmann@kistler.com>