Merge Request #5 - January

Small Changes

• OS: define SIGKILL constant on windows
• Logs: add a CSV log handler
• Translator: add a context
• Object registration: new macros to advertise methods and overloads
• Path: add conversions from/to boost::filesystem and wstring
• qicli trace: add JSON output
• strand: property get/set from outside are now stranded
• signal: add asyncDisconnect (not meant to be widely used...)
• Session: add authentication API (still not enforced by default, more on this in a later merge)
• Actor: make it copyable (no operation)
• Object registration: when advertising free functions, a pointer to the object is given as first argument
• PeriodicTask: add qiClock API and deprecate old API
• Future: add then continuation which return a future
• Future: add unwrap to transform Future<Future<T>> into Future<T>
• Asynchronous calls: make it return cancellable futures (does not work for remote calls yet)
• Future: add aliases waitFor and waitUntil
• Object registration: rework template object registration (now works)
• Python: make async return a cancellable future (does not work for remote objects yet)

Bind Session in the type-system

Session is now bound in the type system. This means that there is now almost no difference between the Session class in C++ and in Python. You can now call loadService from Python and pass Python Session objects to C++.

qi::File

qi::File provides a way to open a file in read-only mode on the local file system and share the content of this file with potentially remote services. We provide algorithms to copy a remote file’s content to make a local copy of it, using the qi::copyToLocal or qi::prepareCopyToLocal functions.

Examples for each use case are provided in the documentation. A complete working example of a service and a service user application is also provided with qi::File sources and documentation.

Bugfixes

• Session: fix deadlock in server when a connection is received
• RemoteObject: fix deadlock when disconnecting a signal multiple times in parallel
• Stats: fix crash in pushStats, stats and clearStats
• Session: fix connection to localhost to a server in a different writable path
• Session: fix crash when accessing a local service directory of a destroyed session
• Eventloop: fix error about promise being set multiple times
• fix compilation on Mac OS Yocemite
• Python: fix python dict to c++ struct conversion
• PeriodicTask: fix deadlock when using trigger()
• Session: don’t make waitForService hold a reference on Session preventing it from destruction
• Python: hide strand getter on objects (qi_strand won’t appear anymore)
• Python: fix deadlock on property destruction
• Python: fix deadlock on object destruction