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-rw-r--r--runtime/doc/msgpack_rpc.txt21
-rw-r--r--scripts/gendispatch.lua6
-rw-r--r--src/nvim/api/buffer.c4
-rw-r--r--src/nvim/func_attr.h1
4 files changed, 22 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/msgpack_rpc.txt b/runtime/doc/msgpack_rpc.txt
index 261e68cfb1..8d013dceb2 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/msgpack_rpc.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/msgpack_rpc.txt
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ prefix is stripped off.
5. Types *rpc-types*
The Nvim C API uses custom types for all functions. |api-types|
-For the purpose of mapping to msgpack, the types can be split into two groups:
+At the RPC layer, the types can be split into two groups:
- Basic types that map natively to msgpack (and probably have a default
representation in msgpack-supported programming languages)
@@ -219,15 +219,16 @@ Special types (msgpack EXT) ~
Window -> enum value kObjectTypeWindow
Tabpage -> enum value kObjectTypeTabpage
-An API method expecting one of these types may be passed an integer instead,
-although they are not interchangeable. For example, a Buffer may be passed as
-an integer, but not a Window or Tabpage.
+API functions expecting one of the special EXT types may be passed an integer
+instead, but not another EXT type. E.g. Buffer may be passed as an integer but
+not as a Window or Tabpage. The EXT object data is the object id encoded as
+a msgpack integer: For buffers this is the |bufnr()| and for windows the
+|window-ID|. For tabpages the id is an internal handle, not the tabpage
+number.
+
+To determine the type codes of the special EXT types, inspect the `types` key
+of the |api-metadata| at runtime. Example JSON representation: >
-The most reliable way of determining the type codes for the special Nvim types
-is to inspect the `types` key of metadata dictionary returned by the
-`nvim_get_api_info` method at runtime. Here's a sample JSON representation of
-the `types` object:
->
"types": {
"Buffer": {
"id": 0,
@@ -242,7 +243,7 @@ the `types` object:
"prefix": "nvim_tabpage_"
}
}
-<
+
Even for statically compiled clients it is good practice to avoid hardcoding
the type codes, because a client may be built against one Nvim version but
connect to another with different type codes.
diff --git a/scripts/gendispatch.lua b/scripts/gendispatch.lua
index 0ee3ae6475..c0291c55d3 100644
--- a/scripts/gendispatch.lua
+++ b/scripts/gendispatch.lua
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ c_proto = Ct(
fill * P('(') * fill * Cg(c_params, 'parameters') * fill * P(')') *
Cg(Cc(false), 'async') *
(fill * Cg((P('FUNC_API_SINCE(') * C(num ^ 1)) * P(')'), 'since') ^ -1) *
+ (fill * Cg((P('FUNC_API_DEPRECATED_SINCE(') * C(num ^ 1)) * P(')'),
+ 'deprecated_since') ^ -1) *
(fill * Cg((P('FUNC_API_ASYNC') * Cc(true)), 'async') ^ -1) *
(fill * Cg((P('FUNC_API_NOEXPORT') * Cc(true)), 'noexport') ^ -1) *
(fill * Cg((P('FUNC_API_NOEVAL') * Cc(true)), 'noeval') ^ -1) *
@@ -122,6 +124,10 @@ for i,f in ipairs(shallowcopy(functions)) do
os.exit(1)
end
f.since = tonumber(f.since)
+ if f.deprecated_since ~= nil then
+ f.deprecated_since = tonumber(f.deprecated_since)
+ end
+
if startswith(f.name, "nvim_buf_") then
ismethod = true
elseif startswith(f.name, "nvim_win_") then
diff --git a/src/nvim/api/buffer.c b/src/nvim/api/buffer.c
index ae5728ee21..5de1535bce 100644
--- a/src/nvim/api/buffer.c
+++ b/src/nvim/api/buffer.c
@@ -567,11 +567,15 @@ void nvim_buf_set_option(Buffer buffer, String name, Object value, Error *err)
/// Gets the buffer number
///
+/// @deprecated The buffer number now is equal to the object id,
+/// so there is no need to use this function.
+///
/// @param buffer Buffer handle
/// @param[out] err Error details, if any
/// @return Buffer number
Integer nvim_buf_get_number(Buffer buffer, Error *err)
FUNC_API_SINCE(1)
+ FUNC_API_DEPRECATED_SINCE(2)
{
Integer rv = 0;
buf_T *buf = find_buffer_by_handle(buffer, err);
diff --git a/src/nvim/func_attr.h b/src/nvim/func_attr.h
index 18410445e1..756c6d05ee 100644
--- a/src/nvim/func_attr.h
+++ b/src/nvim/func_attr.h
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@
# define FUNC_API_NOEXPORT
# define FUNC_API_NOEVAL
# define FUNC_API_SINCE(X)
+# define FUNC_API_DEPRECATED_SINCE(X)
# define FUNC_ATTR_MALLOC REAL_FATTR_MALLOC
# define FUNC_ATTR_ALLOC_SIZE(x) REAL_FATTR_ALLOC_SIZE(x)
# define FUNC_ATTR_ALLOC_SIZE_PROD(x, y) REAL_FATTR_ALLOC_SIZE_PROD(x, y)