This exposes NM_VERSION as number (contrary to the "Version", which is a
string). That is in particular useful, because the number can be
compared with <> due to the encoding of the version.
While at it, don't make it a single number. Expose an array of numbers,
where the following numbers are a bitfield of capabilities.
Note that before commit 3c67a1ec5e ('cli: remove version check against
NM'), we used to parse the "Version" string to detect the version. As
such, the information that "VersionInfo" exposes now, was already
(somewhat) available, you just had to parse the string. The main benefit of
"VersionInfo" is that it can expose capabilities (patched behavior) in
in a lightweight bitfield. To include the numerical version there is
just useful on top.
Currently no additional capabilities are exposed. The idea is of course
to have a place in the future, where we can expose additional
capabilities. Adding a capability flag is most useful for behavior that we
backport to older branches. Otherwise, we could just check the daemon version
alone. But since we only add "VersionInfo" property only now, we cannot backport
any capability further than this, because the "VersionInfo" property itself
won't be backported. As such, this will only be useful in the future by having
a place where we can add (and backport) capabilities.
Note that there is some overlap with the existing "Capability" property
and NMCapability enum. The difference is that adding a capability via "VersionInfo"
is only one bit, and thus cheaper. Most importantly, having it cheaper means
the downsides of adding a capability flag is significantly removed. In
practice, we could live without capabilities for a long time, so they
must be very cheap for them to be worth to add. Another difference might be,
that we will want that the VersionInfo is about compile time defaults (e.g.
a certain patch/behavior that is in or not), while NM_CAPABILITY_TEAM depends on
whether the team plugin is loaded at runtime.
Introduce a RadioFlags property on the manager object. For now it
contains two bits WLAN_AVAILABLE, WWAN_AVAILABLE to indicate whether
any radio interface is present in the system. The presence of a radio
is detected by looking at devices and rfkill switches.
In future, any radio-related read-only boolean flag can be exposed via
this property, including the already existing WirelessHardwareEnabled
and WwanHardwareEnabled properties.
A couple of argument documentation strings were long enough to be broken
up to span over multiple lines. gdbus-codegen, on the other hand, was
of differing opinion and promptly punished the offense by garbling the
resulting docbook.
Merge the string into single lines.
D-Bus 1.3.1 (2010) introduced the standard "PropertiesChanged" signal
on "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties". NetworkManager is old, and predates
this API. From that time, it still had it's own PropertiesChanged signal
that are emitted together with the standard ones. NetworkManager
supports the standard PropertiesChanged signal since it switched to
gdbus library in version 1.2.0 (2016).
These own signals are deprecated for a long time already ([1], 2016), and
are hopefully not used by anybody anymore. libnm-glib was using them and
relied on them, but that library is gone. libnm does not use them and neither
does plasma-nm.
Hopefully no users are left that are affected by this API break.
[1] 6fb917178a
Add a "a{sv}" output argument to "AddAndActivate2" D-Bus API.
"AddAndActivate2" replaces "AddAndActivate" with more options.
It also has a dictionary argument to be forward compatible so that we
hopefully won't need an "AddAndActivate3". However, it lacked a similar
output dictionary. Add it for future extensibility. I think this is
really to workaround a shortcoming of D-Bus, which does provide strong
typing and type information about its API, but does not allow to extend
an existing API in a backward compatible manner. So we either resort to
Method(), Method2(), Method3() variants, or a catch-all variant with a
generic "a{sv}" input/output argument.
In libnm, rename "nm_client_add_and_activate_connection_options()" to
"nm_client_add_and_activate_connection2()". I think libnm API should have
an obvious correspondence with D-Bus API. Or stated differently, if
"AddAndActivateOptions" would be a better name, then the D-Bus API should
be renamed. We should prefer one name over the other, but regardless
of which is preferred, the naming for D-Bus and libnm API should
correspond.
In this case, I do think that AddAndActivate2() is a better name than
AddAndActivateOptions(). Hence I rename the libnm API.
Also, unless necessary, let libnm still call "AddAndActivate" instead of
"AddAndActivate2". Our backward compatibility works the way that libnm
requires a server version at least as new as itself. As such, libnm
theoretically could assume that server version is new enough to support
"AddAndActivate2" and could always use the more powerful variant.
However, we don't need to break compatibility intentionally and for
little gain. Here, it's easy to let libnm also handle old server API, by
continuing to use "AddAndActivate" for nm_client_add_and_activate_connection().
Note that during package update, we don't restart the currently running
NetworkManager instance. In such a scenario, it can easily happen that
nmcli/libnm is newer than the server version. Let's try a bit harder
to not break that.
Changes as discussed in [1].
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/merge_requests/37#note_79876
Correct the spelling across the *entire* tree, including translations,
comments, etc. It's easier that way.
Even the places where it's not exposed to the user, such as tests, so
that we learn how is it spelled correctly.
"bind" specifically binds the lifetime of the activation (NMActiveConnection).
In combination with "persist=volatile", the lifetime of the NMSettingsConnection
is indirectly bound to the NMActiveConnection. But still these concepts make sense
independently.
In the future, it may make sense to also bind the lifetime of the NMSettingsConnection
to the D-Bus client. Hence, rename the option to allow for the distinction.
Also, belatedly fix libnm comment about "bind" only working with
"persist" "volatile".
Fixes: eb883e34a5
For one, there was a bug here: we cannot "goto error" without setting
the @error variable.
Anyway, restricting "bind" "dbus-client" only to profiles that are
"persist" mode "volatile" seems wrong. The "bind" option as it is,
limits the lifetime of the active-connection. This has no direct relation
with the lifetime of the setting-connection. Indeed, if the
settings-connection's lifetime is itself set to "volatile", then
it will indeed go away with the active-connection. However, these
two concepts are not strictly related.
In the future, we might add an option to limite the lifetime of
a settings-connection to a D-Bus client ("bind-setting"). Possibly
we should thus rename "bind" to "bind-activation", to make the
distinction clearer.
This allows binding the lifetime of the created connection to the
existance of the requesting dbus client. This feature is useful if one
has a service specific connection (e.g. P2P wireless) which will not be
useful without the specific service.
This is simply a mechanism to ensure proper connection cleanup if the
requesting service has a failure.
This option allows setting the rules for how long the connection should
be stored. Valid values are "disk" (the default), "memory" and
"volatile". If "memory" or "volatile" is selected, the connection will
not be saved to disk and with "volatile" it will be automatically
removed when it is deactivated again.
This adds a new routine to be able to handle an arbitrary set of further
options for AddAndActivateConnection. Note that no options are accepted
for now.
This allows to adjust the timeout of an existing checkpoint.
The main usecase of checkpoints, is to have a fail-safe when
configuring the network remotely. By allowing to reset the timeout,
the user can perform a series of actions, and keep bumping the
timeout. That way, the entire series is still guarded by the same
checkpoint, but the user can start with short timeout, and
re-adjust the timeout as he goes along.
The libnm API only implements the async form (at least for now).
Sync methods are fundamentally wrong with D-Bus, and it's probably
not needed. Also, follow glib convenction, where the async form
doesn't have the _async name suffix. Also, accept a D-Bus path
as argument, not a NMCheckpoint instance. The libnm API should
not be more restricted than the underlying D-Bus API. It would
be cumbersome to require the user to lookup the NMCheckpoint
instance first, especially since libnm doesn't provide an efficient
or convenient lookup-by-path method. On the other hand, retrieving
the path from a NMCheckpoint instance is always possible.
This makes it easier to install the files with proper names.
Also, it makes the makefile rules slightly simpler.
Lastly, the documentation is now generated into docs/api, which makes it
possible to get rid of the awkward relative file names in docbook.
2016-11-23 15:43:42 +01:00
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