glib 0.21.5

Rust bindings for the GLib library
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// Take a look at the license at the top of the repository in the LICENSE file.

// rustdoc-stripper-ignore-next
//! Module for registering boxed types for Rust types.

use crate::{ffi, gobject_ffi, prelude::*, translate::*};

// rustdoc-stripper-ignore-next
/// Trait for defining boxed types.
///
/// Links together the type name with the type itself.
///
/// See [`register_boxed_type`] for registering an implementation of this trait
/// with the type system.
///
/// [`register_boxed_type`]: fn.register_boxed_type.html
pub trait BoxedType: StaticType + Clone + Sized + 'static {
    // rustdoc-stripper-ignore-next
    /// Boxed type name.
    ///
    /// This must be unique in the whole process.
    const NAME: &'static str;

    // rustdoc-stripper-ignore-next
    /// Allow name conflicts for this boxed type.
    ///
    /// By default, trying to register a type with a name that was registered before will panic. If
    /// this is set to `true` then a new name will be selected by appending a counter.
    ///
    /// This is useful for defining new types in Rust library crates that might be linked multiple
    /// times in the same process.
    ///
    /// A consequence of setting this to `true` is that it's not guaranteed that
    /// `glib::Type::from_name(Self::NAME).unwrap() == Self::static_type()`.
    ///
    /// Optional.
    const ALLOW_NAME_CONFLICT: bool = false;
}

// rustdoc-stripper-ignore-next
/// Register a boxed `glib::Type` ID for `T`.
///
/// This must be called only once and will panic on a second call.
///
/// See [`Boxed!`] for defining a function that ensures that
/// this is only called once and returns the type id.
///
/// [`Boxed!`]: ../../derive.Boxed.html
pub fn register_boxed_type<T: BoxedType>() -> crate::Type {
    unsafe extern "C" fn boxed_copy<T: BoxedType>(v: ffi::gpointer) -> ffi::gpointer {
        let v = &*(v as *mut T);
        let copy = Box::new(v.clone());

        Box::into_raw(copy) as ffi::gpointer
    }
    unsafe extern "C" fn boxed_free<T: BoxedType>(v: ffi::gpointer) {
        let v = v as *mut T;
        let _ = Box::from_raw(v);
    }
    unsafe {
        use std::ffi::CString;

        let type_name = if T::ALLOW_NAME_CONFLICT {
            let mut i = 0;
            loop {
                let type_name = CString::new(if i == 0 {
                    T::NAME.to_string()
                } else {
                    format!("{}-{}", T::NAME, i)
                })
                .unwrap();
                if gobject_ffi::g_type_from_name(type_name.as_ptr()) == gobject_ffi::G_TYPE_INVALID
                {
                    break type_name;
                }
                i += 1;
            }
        } else {
            let type_name = CString::new(T::NAME).unwrap();
            assert_eq!(
                gobject_ffi::g_type_from_name(type_name.as_ptr()),
                gobject_ffi::G_TYPE_INVALID,
                "Type {} has already been registered",
                type_name.to_str().unwrap()
            );

            type_name
        };

        let type_ = crate::Type::from_glib(gobject_ffi::g_boxed_type_register_static(
            type_name.as_ptr(),
            Some(boxed_copy::<T>),
            Some(boxed_free::<T>),
        ));
        assert!(type_.is_valid());

        type_
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod test {
    // We rename the current crate as glib, since the macros in glib-macros
    // generate the glib namespace through the crate_ident_new utility,
    // and that returns `glib` (and not `crate`) when called inside the glib crate
    use crate as glib;
    use crate::prelude::*;
    use crate::translate::{FromGlibPtrBorrow, FromGlibPtrFull, IntoGlibPtr};

    #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, glib::Boxed)]
    #[boxed_type(name = "MyBoxed")]
    struct MyBoxed(String);

    #[test]
    fn test_register() {
        assert!(MyBoxed::static_type().is_valid());
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_value() {
        assert!(MyBoxed::static_type().is_valid());

        let b = MyBoxed(String::from("abc"));
        let v = b.to_value();
        let b2 = v.get::<&MyBoxed>().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(&b, b2);
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_from_glib_borrow() {
        assert!(MyBoxed::static_type().is_valid());

        let b = MyBoxed(String::from("abc"));
        let raw_ptr = MyBoxed::into_glib_ptr(b);

        // test that the from_glib_borrow does not take ownership of the raw_ptr
        let _ = unsafe { MyBoxed::from_glib_borrow(raw_ptr) };

        let new_b = unsafe { MyBoxed::from_glib_full(raw_ptr) };

        assert_eq!(new_b.0, "abc".to_string());
    }
}