This allows a data item that can marshal itself to be transmitted by its
own encoding, enabling some types to be handled that cannot be
normally, plus providing a way to use gobs on data with unexported
fields.
In this CL, the necessary methods are protected by leading _, so only
package gob can use the facilities (in its tests, of course); this
code is not ready for real use yet. I could be talked into enabling
it for experimentation, though. The main drawback is that the
methods must be implemented by the actual type passed through,
not by an indirection from it. For instance, if *T implements
GobEncoder, you must send a *T, not a T. This will be addressed
in due course.
Also there is improved commentary and a couple of unrelated
minor bug fixes.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4243056
This change makes it possible to take the address of a
struct field or slice element in order to call a method that
requires a pointer receiver.
Existing code that uses the Value.Addr method will have
to change (as gob does in this CL) to call UnsafeAddr instead.
R=r, rog
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4239052
Before this fix, types such as
type T map[string]T
caused infinite recursion in the gob implementation.
Now they just work.
Fixes#1518.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4230045
There are further changes required for things like
recursive map types. Recursive struct types work
but the mechanism needs generalization. The
case handled in this CL is pathological since it
cannot be represented at all by gob, so it should
be handled separately. (Prior to this CL, encode
would recur forever.)
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4206041
Other than maybe cleaning the code up a bit, this has
little practical effect for now, but lays the foundation
for remembering the method set of a type, which can
be expensive.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4193041
Yesterday's change was too simple-minded and failed if an
interface value was being discarded. We need to parse the
data stream and remember any type information that arrives.
Also fix a minor bug when ignoring an interface: toss only what
we know about, not everything.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4179045
- complex numbers now supported.
- entirely independent of standard decode code.
- parser has no read-ahead; that is, the scanning works
simply by reading the values as they arrive, not by trying
to count bytes for message boundaries, a proof of concept
for the pending rewrite of the regular decoder.
R=rsc, r2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4084044
(or at least a correct encoder, still to come).
Change the debug structure slightly to better represent
the grammar.
Minor tweaks for consistency in type.go.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4007044
Re-implement the debugging helper to be independent of the existing
implementation. This is preparatory to a rewrite to clean up issue 1416.
Include a definition of the grammar of the data stream.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3970045
I have written a tool to verify Printf calls, and although it's not
ready to be reviewed yet it's already uncovered a spate of problems
in the repository. I'm sending this CL to break the changes into
pieces; as the tool improves it will find more, I'm sure.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3427043
1) Be sure to use the eval-time encoder/decoder rather than
the compile-time decoder. In a few cases the receiver for
the compiling encoder was being pickled incorrectly into a
closure.
(This is the fix for issue 1238).
2) Get the innermost name right when given a pointer to an
unnamed type.
3) Use a count to delineate interface values, making it
possible to ignore values without having a concrete type
to encode into. This is a protocol change but only for the
new feature, so it shouldn't affect anyone. The old test
worked because, amazingly, it depended on bug #1.
Fixes#1238.
R=rsc, albert.strasheim
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/2806041
Remove err from the encoderState and decoderState types, so we're
not always copying to and from various copies of the error, and then
use panic/recover to eliminate lots of error checking.
another pass might take a crack at the same thing for the compilation phase.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/2660042
The implemetation describes each value as a string identifying the
concrete type of the value, followed by the usual encoding of that
value. All types to be exchanged as contents of interface values
must be registered ahead of time with the new Register function.
Although this would not seem strictly necessary, the linker garbage
collects unused types so without some mechanism to guarantee
the type exists in the binary, there could be unpleasant surprises.
Moreover, the receiver needs a reflect.Type of the value to be
written in order to be able to save the data. A Register function
seems necessary.
The implementation may require defining types in the middle of
of sending a value. The old code never did this. Therefore there
has been some refactoring to make the encoder and decoder
work recursively.
This change changes the internal type IDs. Existing gob archives
will break with this change. Apologies for that. If this is a deal
breaker it should be possible to create a conversion tool.
Error handling is too complicated in this code. A subsequent
change should clean it up.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/2618042
New logging interface simplifies and generalizes.
1) Loggers now have only one output.
2) log.Stdout, Stderr, Crash and friends are gone.
Logging is now always to standard error by default.
3) log.Panic* replaces log.Crash*.
4) Exiting and panicking are not part of the logger's state; instead
the functions Exit* and Panic* simply call Exit or panic after
printing.
5) There is now one 'standard logger'. Instead of calling Stderr,
use Print etc. There are now triples, by analogy with fmt:
Print, Println, Printf
What was log.Stderr is now best represented by log.Println,
since there are now separate Print and Println functions
(and methods).
6) New functions SetOutput, SetFlags, and SetPrefix allow global
editing of the standard logger's properties. This is new
functionality. For instance, one can call
log.SetFlags(log.Lshortfile|log.Ltime|log.Lmicroseconds)
to get all logging output to show file name, line number, and
time stamp.
In short, for most purposes
log.Stderr -> log.Println or log.Print
log.Stderrf -> log.Printf
log.Crash -> log.Panicln or log.Panic
log.Crashf -> log.Panicf
log.Exit -> log.Exitln or log.Exit
log.Exitf -> log.Exitf (no change)
This has a slight breakage: since loggers now write only to one
output, existing calls to log.New() need to delete the second argument.
Also, custom loggers with exit or panic properties will need to be
reworked.
All package code updated to new interface.
The test has been reworked somewhat.
The old interface will be removed after the new release.
For now, its elements are marked 'deprecated' in their comments.
Fixes#1184.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/2419042
The decoder was crashing when handling an rpc that expected
a struct but was delivered something else. This diagnoses the
problem. The other direction (expecting non-struct but getting
one) was already handled.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/2246041
1) hack regalloc to leave R9 (m) and R10 (g) alone.
the real fix is tricker, but this gets us running
2) fix up the few places in the package sources that
the shortage of registers affects, by simplifying
some expressions.
all of this should be reverted when the right fix is in.
Fixes#1084.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/2132046
