When in permissive mode, the ConfigServer will not treat reads and
writes to non-pledged domains as errors, but instead turns them into
no-ops: Reads will act as if the key was not found, and writes will do
nothing. Permissive mode must be enabled before pledging any domains.
This is needed to make GUI Widgets nicer to work with in GML Playground:
a few Widgets include reads and writes to LibConfig in order to load
system settings (eg, GUI::Calendar) or to save and restore state
(eg, GUI::DynamicWidgetContainer). Without this change, editing a
layout that includes one of these Widgets will cause GML Playground to
crash when they try to access config domains that are not pledged.
The solution used previously is to make Playground pledge more domains,
but not only does this mean Playground has to know about these cases,
but also that working on a layout file can alter the user's settings in
other arbitrary apps, which is not something we want.
By simply ignoring these config accesses, we avoid those downsides, and
Widgets will simply use the fallback values they already have to provide
to Config::read_foo_value().
This commit un-deprecates DeprecatedString, and repurposes it as a byte
string.
As the null state has already been removed, there are no other
particularly hairy blockers in repurposing this type as a byte string
(what it _really_ is).
This commit is auto-generated:
$ xs=$(ack -l \bDeprecatedString\b\|deprecated_string AK Userland \
Meta Ports Ladybird Tests Kernel)
$ perl -pie 's/\bDeprecatedString\b/ByteString/g;
s/deprecated_string/byte_string/g' $xs
$ clang-format --style=file -i \
$(git diff --name-only | grep \.cpp\|\.h)
$ gn format $(git ls-files '*.gn' '*.gni')
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
Plumbs synchronous calls for adding and removing group entries to
config files. This is useful for services like SystemServer which
default to group names for executable paths, and for removing all
keys at once.
This patch fixes the issue of pressing the ok button of a settings menu
without saving the changes, or not reverting the changes when pressing
the cancel button because the app has died before the new values make
it to the other end.
This patch adds a Config::Listener abstract class that anyone can
inherit from and receive notifications when configuration values change.
We don't yet monitor file system changes, so these only work for changes
made by ConfigServer itself.
In order to receive these notifications, clients must monitor the domain
by calling monitor_domain(). Only pledged domains can be monitored.
Note that the client initiating the change does not get notified.
This API lets applications specify which configuration domains they
will be accessing throughout their lifetime. It works similarly in
spirit to the kernel's pledge().
You cannot pledge_domains() more than once, and once you have used it,
it's no longer possible to access any other configuration domain.
This is obviously just a first cut of this mechanism, and we may need
to tweak it further as we go.
ConfigServer is an IPC service that provides access to application
configuration and settings. The idea is to replace all uses of
Core::ConfigFile with IPC requests to ConfigServer.
This first cut of the API is pretty similar to Core::ConfigFile.
The old:
auto config = Core::ConfigFile::open_for_app("App");
auto value = config->read_entry("Group", "Key");
The new:
auto value = Config::read_string("App", "Group", "Key");
ConfigServer uses the ~/.config directory as its backing store
and all the files remain human-editable. :^)
