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authorPatrick Griffis <pgriffis@igalia.com>2021-01-09 13:18:00 -0600
committerPatrick Griffis <pgriffis@igalia.com>2021-01-09 13:18:00 -0600
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parent1d1a06b58882b7809db9146b3444c250e156404e (diff)
downloadlibsoup-6a2d9585d85fd7e6c5fca8dbc49130e00d2a64e3.tar.gz
docs: Various changes from feedback
-rw-r--r--docs/reference/client-advanced.xml6
-rw-r--r--docs/reference/migrating-from-libsoup-2.xml83
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 53 deletions
diff --git a/docs/reference/client-advanced.xml b/docs/reference/client-advanced.xml
index f7057c07..270a5daa 100644
--- a/docs/reference/client-advanced.xml
+++ b/docs/reference/client-advanced.xml
@@ -136,11 +136,11 @@ linkend="g-proxy-resolver-get-default"><function>g_proxy_resolver_get_default()<
<sect2>
<title>Controlling Redirections</title>
<para>By default libsoup automatically handles redirections in a sane way without you needing to worry about it.
- However you may want explicitly block all redirections or perhaps allow some unsafe redirections. <literal>SoupMessage::redirection</literal>
+ However you may want explicitly block all redirections or perhaps allow some unsafe redirections. <literal>SoupMessage::redirect</literal>
provides a way to do both of these:</para>
<informalexample><programlisting><![CDATA[
static SoupMessageRedirectionFlags
-redirection_callback (SoupMessage *msg, GUri *location, guint redirect_count, gpointer user_data)
+redirect_callback (SoupMessage *msg, GUri *location, guint redirect_count, gpointer user_data)
{
// Here we could compare URIs, check redirect_count, etc. This just always prevents it.
return SOUP_MESSAGE_REDIRECTION_BLOCK;
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
SoupSession *session = soup_session_new ();
// Google redirects to https://www.google.com/
SoupMessage *msg = soup_message_new (SOUP_METHOD_GET, "https://google.com");
- g_signal_connect (msg, "redirection", G_CALLBACK (redirection_callback), NULL);
+ g_signal_connect (msg, "redirect", G_CALLBACK (redirect_callback), NULL);
GInputStream *in_stream = soup_session_send (session, msg, NULL, NULL);
if (in_stream) {
diff --git a/docs/reference/migrating-from-libsoup-2.xml b/docs/reference/migrating-from-libsoup-2.xml
index 3276489f..81b060ae 100644
--- a/docs/reference/migrating-from-libsoup-2.xml
+++ b/docs/reference/migrating-from-libsoup-2.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.1">
<title>Migrating from libsoup 2</title>
- <section>
- <title>Removed features</title>
- <para>This is a list of features that have been removed:<itemizedlist>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Removed APIs</title>
+ <para>This is a list of APIs that have been removed:<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>XML-RPC support</para>
</listitem>
@@ -54,14 +54,22 @@ linkend="soup-uri-decode-data-uri"><function>soup_uri_decode_data_uri()</functio
<listitem>
<para><type>SoupDate</type> has been replaced by <link linkend="GDateTime"><type>GDateTime</type></link></para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><literal>SoupSession:ssl-strict</literal> has been removed in favor of using the <link linkend="soup-message--accept-certificate"><literal>SoupMessage:accept-certificate</literal></link> signal.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><literal>soup_session_cancel_message()</literal> has been removed</para>
+ <para>Instead you pass a <link linkend="GCancellable"><type>GCancellable</type></link> to APIs and call <link linkend="g_cancellable_cancel"><function>g_cancellable_cancel()</function></link>.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
- </section>
- <section>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>Moved authenticate signal</title>
- <para>The <literal>SoupSession::authenticate</literal> signal has simply been moved to
- <link linkend="SoupMessage-authenticate"><literal>SoupMessage::authenticate</literal></link>, its behavior is the same.</para>
- </section>
- <section>
+ <para>The <literal>SoupSession::authenticate</literal> signal has been replaced by
+ <link linkend="SoupMessage-authenticate"><literal>SoupMessage::authenticate</literal></link>. It now allows returning <literal>TRUE</literal> to signifiy
+ if you will handle authentication which allows for asynchronus handling.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>Structs are private</title>
<para>You can no longer directly access various structs such as SoupMessage. These are now
accessed by getters and setters. See below for direct conversions:<informaltable>
@@ -113,8 +121,8 @@ linkend="soup-uri-decode-data-uri"><function>soup_uri_decode_data_uri()</functio
</informaltable></para>
<para>Similar struct changes exist for <link linkend="SoupCookie"><type>SoupCookie</type></link> but have very straightforward
replacements.</para>
- </section>
- <section>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>URI type changed</title>
<para>The <type>SoupURI</type> type has been replaced with the <link linkend="GUri"><type>GUri</type></link> type which has some
implications.</para>
@@ -123,15 +131,15 @@ linkend="soup-uri-decode-data-uri"><function>soup_uri_decode_data_uri()</functio
<literal>G_URI_FLAGS_PARSE_RELAXED</literal> to accept input that used to be
considered valid.</para>
<para>Note that unlike <type>SoupURI</type> <link linkend="GUri"><type>GUri</type></link> is an immutable type so you cannot change the contents
- of one after it has been constructed.</para>
+ of one after it has been constructed. We provide <link linkend="soup_copy_uri"><function>soup_copy_uri()</function></link> to aid in modifying them.</para>
<para>The equivilent behavior to <code>soup_uri_to_string (uri, FALSE)</code> is
<code>g_uri_to_string (uri, G_URI_HIDE_PASSWORD)</code>.</para>
<para>Since GUri does not provide any function to check for equality
<link linkend="soup_uri_equal"><function>soup_uri_equal()</function></link> still exists.</para>
<para>Sending a <literal>OPTIONS</literal> message with a path of <literal>*</literal> is no
longer a valid URI and has been replaced with SoupMessage:options-ping.</para>
- </section>
- <section>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>Status codes no longer used for internal errors</title>
<para>Previously <link linkend="SoupStatus"><type>SoupStatus</type></link> was used to hold libsoup errors
(<code>SOUP_STATUS_IS_TRANSPORT_ERROR()</code>). Now all of these errors are
@@ -149,46 +157,21 @@ linkend="soup-uri-decode-data-uri"><function>soup_uri_decode_data_uri()</functio
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><code>SOUP_STATUS_CANCELLED</code></entry>
- <entry>G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED</entry>
+ <entry><link linkend="G-IO-ERROR-CANCELLED:CAPS"><code>G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED</code></link></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><code>SOUP_STATUS_MALFORMED</code></entry>
- <entry>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_PARSING, SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_ENCODING</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>SOUP_STATUS_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS</entry>
- <entry>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- <entry>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_BAD_URI</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- <entry>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_URI_SCHEME</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- <entry>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_TOO_MANY_RESTARTS</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- <entry>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_REDIRECT_NO_LOCATION</entry>
+ <entry><link linkend="SOUP-SESSION-ERROR-PARSING:CAPS"><code>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_PARSING</code></link>, <link linkend="SOUP-SESSION-ERROR-ENCODING:CAPS"><code>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_ENCODING</code></link></entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry/>
- <entry>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_REDIRECT_BAD_URI</entry>
+ <entry><code>SOUP_STATUS_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS</code></entry>
+ <entry><link linkend="SOUP-SESSION-ERROR-TOO-MANY-REDIRECTS:CAPS"><code>SOUP_SESSION_ERROR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS</code></link></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable></para>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Cancellation uses GCancellable</title>
- <para>Pass a <link linkend="GCancellable"><type>GCancellable</type></link> to APIs and call <link linkend="g_cancellable_cancel"><function>g_cancellable_cancel()</function></link> on them rather than
- <function>soup_session_cancel_message()</function></para>
- </section>
- <section id="io-stream-based">
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="io-stream-based">
<title>All IO is now GIOStream based</title>
<para>Previously there were ways to allow libsoup to read data into buffers and for you to
read from those buffers such as <literal>SoupMessage:response-body</literal>,
@@ -202,13 +185,13 @@ linkend="soup-uri-decode-data-uri"><function>soup_uri_decode_data_uri()</functio
<link linkend="soup_message_set_request_body"><function>soup_message_set_request_body()</function></link> or use the convenience API
<link linkend="soup_message_set_request_body_from_bytes"><function>soup_message_set_request_body_from_bytes()</function></link> to use a GBytes
buffer.</para>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Redirection is always handled internally</title>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Redirection handling changes</title>
<para>Previously a common pattern was using <code>SOUP_MESSAGE_NO_REDIRECT</code> and
manually handling re-queuing the message. This is now handled for you with the
- <link linkend="SoupMessage-redirection"><literal>SoupMessage::redirection</literal></link> signal where you can block or allow redirects and libsoup
+ <link linkend="SoupMessage-redirect"><literal>SoupMessage::redirect</literal></link> signal where you can block or allow redirects and libsoup
handles the queueing.</para>
- </section>
+ </sect2>
</chapter>