protocol: add wl_display_upgrade global

This global allows the IPC library to upgrade the version of the
wl_display global. To ensure maximum flexibility, there are strict
requirements on the connection state at the time of the upgrade. In
particular, after the compositor has destroyed the wl_display_upgrade
object, the wl_display is the only object in the connection.

Since there are many consumers of wl_display and wl_registry, and the
version of these objects is fixed after the upgrade, care must be taken
not to break any of these consumers. Since no consumer checks the
version of these objects and there is no way to get a wl_registry with a
lower version, incrementing the minor version cannot change the
semantics of existing messages and no new events can be added to
wl_registry. As an exception, new events can be added to wl_display
since those events are handled internally by the IPC library which is
also in charge of upgrading the version.

An additional change that could be made in version 2 of wl_display is
adding a wl_display.delete_server_id request, implementing symmetric
delete_id. A global that wants to make full use of destructor events
could then specify that the global must only be exposed on a wl_registry
whose version (and therefore the version of the wl_display) is at least
2.

Signed-off-by: Julian Orth <ju.orth@gmail.com>
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Julian Orth 2026-03-16 17:16:35 +01:00
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SOFTWARE.
</copyright>
<interface name="wl_display" version="1">
<interface name="wl_display" version="2">
<description summary="core global object">
The core global object. This is a special singleton object. It
is used for internal Wayland protocol features.
This interface guarantees that the semantics of requests of this interface
are unaffected by the minor version of this interface. The semantics of
events may change and new events may be added.
</description>
<request name="sync">
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</event>
</interface>
<interface name="wl_registry" version="1">
<interface name="wl_registry" version="2">
<description summary="global registry object">
The singleton global registry object. The server has a number of
global objects that are available to all clients. These objects
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request. This creates a client-side handle that lets the object
emit events to the client and lets the client invoke requests on
the object.
This interface guarantees that the semantics of the messages of this
interface are unaffected by the minor version of this interface; and that
no new events will be added to any minor version of this interface.
</description>
<request name="bind">
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</description>
<arg name="name" type="uint" summary="numeric name of the global object"/>
</event>
<!-- Version 2 additions -->
<request name="release" type="destructor" since="2">
<description summary="destroys this registry">
Objects created from this registry are not affected by this request.
</description>
</request>
</interface>
<interface name="wl_callback" version="1" frozen="true">
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</request>
</interface>
<interface name="wl_display_upgrade" version="2">
<description summary="wayland upgrade object">
This global allows the IPC library to upgrade the version of the
wl_display object.
This global must not be bound more than once over the lifetime of the
connection, otherwise the already_bound error is emitted.
This global should only be bound by the IPC library because the IPC
library must be aware of the version of the wl_display object.
A compositor that advertises this global must also advertise the wl_fixes
global.
</description>
<enum name="error">
<description summary="wl_display_upgrade error values">
These errors can be emitted in response to wl_display_upgrade requests.
</description>
<entry name="already_bound" value="0"
summary="the wl_display_upgrade global was bound more than once"/>
<entry name="has_objects" value="1"
summary="objects other than wl_display and this object exist"/>
<entry name="out_of_bounds" value="2"
summary="the version requested by the upgrade request is out of bounds"/>
</enum>
<event name="max_version">
<description summary="the version supported by the compositor">
This event informs the client of the maximum wl_display version
supported by the compositor. It is sent immediately after this global
has been bound. The version is guaranteed to be at least 1.
</description>
<arg name="version" type="uint" summary="the version"/>
</event>
<request name="upgrade" type="destructor">
<description summary="upgrade the wl_display version">
Negotiates an upgrade of the version of the wl_display object.
At the time of the request, no objects other than the wl_display and
this object must exist, otherwise the has_objects error is emitted. In
particular, the client must use wl_fixes to destroy the registry from
which this object was created.
The version must be at least 1 and must not be larger than the version
sent in the version event, otherwise the out_of_bounds error is emitted.
</description>
<arg name="version" type="uint" summary="the version"/>
</request>
</interface>
</protocol>