wayland-server: Add API to control globals visibility

Add a new API to let compositor decide whether or not a wl_global
should be advertised to the clients via wl_registry_bind() or
display_get_registry()

By using its own filter, the compositor can decide which wl_global would
be listed to clients.

Compositors can use this mechanism to hide their own private interfaces
that regular clients should not use.

- Hiding interfaces that expose compositor implementation details
  makes it harder for clients to identify the compositor. Therefore
  clients are a little less likely to develop compositor-specific
  workarounds instead of reporting problems upstream.

- Hiding can be used to diminish the problems from missing namespacing:
  if two compositors happen to use the same named global with
  different interfaces for their special-purpose clients, the client
  expecting the different interface would probably never see it
  advertised.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
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Olivier Fourdan 2016-10-18 16:23:39 +02:00 committed by Pekka Paalanen
parent 2f72d0a8a8
commit d915447365
2 changed files with 87 additions and 5 deletions

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#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include "wayland-util.h"
#include "wayland-version.h"
@ -168,6 +169,30 @@ wl_global_create(struct wl_display *display,
void
wl_global_destroy(struct wl_global *global);
/** A filter function for wl_global objects
*
* \param client The client object
* \param global The global object to show or hide
* \param data The user data pointer
*
* A filter function enables the server to decide which globals to
* advertise to each client.
*
* When a wl_global filter is set, the given callback funtion will be
* called during wl_global advertisment and binding.
*
* This function should return true if the global object should be made
* visible to the client or false otherwise.
*/
typedef bool (*wl_display_global_filter_func_t)(const struct wl_client *client,
const struct wl_global *global,
void *data);
void
wl_display_set_global_filter(struct wl_display *display,
wl_display_global_filter_func_t filter,
void *data);
struct wl_client *
wl_client_create(struct wl_display *display, int fd);