I started looking into how to generate everything that has to do with
the wire protocol using xcb. I'm starting small, with the easier
extensions first (dpms), and I'll be gradually adding support for the
more complicated extensions as the time goes.
This mail serves as an overview of what I've been playing with in the
past few days. The code is nowhere near functional, but should give you
an idea into which direction I'm heading. Comments are very much
appreciated.
I took c_client.py as an inspiration how to generate the C source files.
However, instead of doing that straight from python, I've chosen to use
a templating engine. I couldn't find any for python that would be
suitable to generate C, all engines focus mostly on html. So the
template itself looks strange and emacs has troubles using the right
syntax highlighting because it can't decide whether it's C, python or
html. But overall I think a template is better than plain python.
The code generates request/reply structures, corresponding swap
functions and a function prefixed with wire_. That function is what's
called by the dispatch code. The function validates the request size,
swaps the request if necessary and then calls the function prefixed with
impl_, that's where the actual implementation would be. If the request
requires a reply, the impl_ function also fills the reply structure. The
reply is optionally swapped and then sent to the client. So there is
only one set of protocol handlers because they handle both swapped and
non-swapped clients.
You can look at the code for DPMS QueryVersion here:
http://github.com/wereHamster/xorg-server/blob/server-side-xcb/proto/dpms.c#L9
The current code only works with requests/replies which use simple
fields. Lists etc are not supported yet. One issue is how to represent
(and swap) dynamically sized fields in the request/reply structures,
another is how to give the client the ability to write additional data
after the reply (as in GetImage for example). I'll take a look at how
xcb solved these problems.
tom
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