ObjFW  Update of "API Review for 1.0"

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Date: 2022-08-28 14:23:07
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API Review for 1.0

For the 1.0 release, all APIs should be reviewed, as starting with 1.0, they are supposed to be stable. All documented methods, functions, classes, types and structs that are part of the installed headers are considered part of the API.

Right now, we have fhe following installed headers:

  • ObjFW/macros.h
  • ObjFW/objfw-defs.h
  • ObjFW/ObjFW.h
  • ObjFW/OFAcceptFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFAllocFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFAlreadyConnectedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFApplication.h
  • ObjFW/OFArray.h
  • ObjFW/OFAtomic.h
  • ObjFW/OFBindFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFBlock.h
  • ObjFW/OFChangeCurrentDirectoryPathFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFCharacterSet.h
  • ObjFW/OFChecksumMismatchException.h
  • ObjFW/OFCollection.h
  • ObjFW/OFColor.h
  • ObjFW/OFConditionBroadcastFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFCondition.h
  • ObjFW/OFConditionSignalFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFConditionStillWaitingException.h
  • ObjFW/OFConditionWaitFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFConnectionFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFConstantString.h
  • ObjFW/OFCopyItemFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFCountedSet.h
  • ObjFW/OFCreateDirectoryFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFCreateSymbolicLinkFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFCryptographicHash.h
  • ObjFW/OFData+CryptographicHashing.h
  • ObjFW/OFDatagramSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFData.h
  • ObjFW/OFData+MessagePackParsing.h
  • ObjFW/OFDate.h
  • ObjFW/OFDictionary.h
  • ObjFW/OFDNSQueryFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFDNSQuery.h
  • ObjFW/OFDNSResolver.h
  • ObjFW/OFDNSResourceRecord.h
  • ObjFW/OFDNSResponse.h
  • ObjFW/OFEnumerationMutationException.h
  • ObjFW/OFEnumerator.h
  • ObjFW/OFException.h
  • ObjFW/OFFile.h
  • ObjFW/OFFileManager.h
  • ObjFW/OFGetCurrentDirectoryPathFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFGetOptionFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFGZIPStream.h
  • ObjFW/OFHashAlreadyCalculatedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFHashNotCalculatedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFHMAC.h
  • ObjFW/OFHTTPClient.h
  • ObjFW/OFHTTPCookie.h
  • ObjFW/OFHTTPCookieManager.h
  • ObjFW/OFHTTPRequestFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFHTTPRequest.h
  • ObjFW/OFHTTPResponse.h
  • ObjFW/OFHTTPServer.h
  • ObjFW/OFInflate64Stream.h
  • ObjFW/OFInflateStream.h
  • ObjFW/OFINICategory.h
  • ObjFW/OFINIFile.h
  • ObjFW/OFInitializationFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFInvalidArgumentException.h
  • ObjFW/OFInvalidEncodingException.h
  • ObjFW/OFInvalidFormatException.h
  • ObjFW/OFInvalidJSONException.h
  • ObjFW/OFInvalidServerReplyException.h
  • ObjFW/OFInvocation.h
  • ObjFW/OFIPXSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFJSONRepresentation.h
  • ObjFW/OFKernelEventObserver.h
  • ObjFW/OFKeyValueCoding.h
  • ObjFW/OFLHAArchiveEntry.h
  • ObjFW/OFLHAArchive.h
  • ObjFW/OFLinkFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFListenFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFList.h
  • ObjFW/OFLoadPluginFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFLocale.h
  • ObjFW/OFLockFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFLocking.h
  • ObjFW/OFMalformedXMLException.h
  • ObjFW/OFMapTable.h
  • ObjFW/OFMD5Hash.h
  • ObjFW/OFMessagePackExtension.h
  • ObjFW/OFMessagePackRepresentation.h
  • ObjFW/OFMethodSignature.h
  • ObjFW/OFMoveItemFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableArray.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableData.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableDictionary.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableLHAArchiveEntry.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutablePair.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableSet.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableString.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableTarArchiveEntry.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableTriple.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableURL.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutableZIPArchiveEntry.h
  • ObjFW/OFMutex.h
  • ObjFW/OFNotificationCenter.h
  • ObjFW/OFNotification.h
  • ObjFW/OFNotImplementedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFNotOpenException.h
  • ObjFW/OFNull.h
  • ObjFW/OFNumber.h
  • ObjFW/OFObject.h
  • ObjFW/OFObject+KeyValueCoding.h
  • ObjFW/OFObject+Serialization.h
  • ObjFW/OFObserveFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFOnce.h
  • ObjFW/OFOpenItemFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFOptionsParser.h
  • ObjFW/OFOutOfMemoryException.h
  • ObjFW/OFOutOfRangeException.h
  • ObjFW/OFPair.h
  • ObjFW/OFPBKDF2.h
  • ObjFW/OFPlainCondition.h
  • ObjFW/OFPlainMutex.h
  • ObjFW/OFPlainThread.h
  • ObjFW/OFPlugin.h
  • ObjFW/OFReadFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFReadOrWriteFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFRecursiveMutex.h
  • ObjFW/OFRemoveItemFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFResolveHostFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFRetrieveItemAttributesFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFRIPEMD160Hash.h
  • ObjFW/OFRunLoop.h
  • ObjFW/OFScrypt.h
  • ObjFW/OFSecureData.h
  • ObjFW/OFSeekableStream.h
  • ObjFW/OFSeekFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFSequencedPacketSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFSerialization.h
  • ObjFW/OFSet.h
  • ObjFW/OFSetItemAttributesFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFSetOptionFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFSettings.h
  • ObjFW/OFSHA1Hash.h
  • ObjFW/OFSHA224Hash.h
  • ObjFW/OFSHA224Or256Hash.h
  • ObjFW/OFSHA256Hash.h
  • ObjFW/OFSHA384Hash.h
  • ObjFW/OFSHA384Or512Hash.h
  • ObjFW/OFSHA512Hash.h
  • ObjFW/OFSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFSortedList.h
  • ObjFW/OFSPXSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFSPXStreamSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFStdIOStream.h
  • ObjFW/OFStillLockedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFStream.h
  • ObjFW/OFStreamSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFString+CryptographicHashing.h
  • ObjFW/OFString.h
  • ObjFW/OFString+JSONParsing.h
  • ObjFW/OFString+PathAdditions.h
  • ObjFW/OFString+PropertyListParsing.h
  • ObjFW/OFString+Serialization.h
  • ObjFW/OFString+URLEncoding.h
  • ObjFW/OFString+XMLEscaping.h
  • ObjFW/OFString+XMLUnescaping.h
  • ObjFW/OFSubprocess.h
  • ObjFW/OFSystemInfo.h
  • ObjFW/OFTarArchiveEntry.h
  • ObjFW/OFTarArchive.h
  • ObjFW/OFTCPSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFThread.h
  • ObjFW/OFThreadJoinFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFThreadStartFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFThreadStillRunningException.h
  • ObjFW/OFTimer.h
  • ObjFW/OFTLSHandshakeFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFTLSKey.h
  • ObjFW/OFTLSStream.h
  • ObjFW/OFTriple.h
  • ObjFW/OFTruncatedDataException.h
  • ObjFW/OFUDPSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFUnboundNamespaceException.h
  • ObjFW/OFUnboundPrefixException.h
  • ObjFW/OFUndefinedKeyException.h
  • ObjFW/OFUNIXDatagramSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFUNIXStreamSocket.h
  • ObjFW/OFUnknownXMLEntityException.h
  • ObjFW/OFUnlockFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFUnsupportedProtocolException.h
  • ObjFW/OFUnsupportedVersionException.h
  • ObjFW/OFURL.h
  • ObjFW/OFURLHandler.h
  • ObjFW/OFUUID.h
  • ObjFW/OFValue.h
  • ObjFW/OFWriteFailedException.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLAttribute.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLCDATA.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLCharacters.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLComment.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLElementBuilder.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLElement.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLElement+Serialization.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLNode.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLParser.h
  • ObjFW/OFXMLProcessingInstruction.h
  • ObjFW/OFZIPArchiveEntry.h
  • ObjFW/OFZIPArchive.h
  • ObjFW/platform/GCC4.7/OFAtomic.h
  • ObjFW/platform/GCC4/OFAtomic.h
  • ObjFW/platform.h
  • ObjFW/platform/macOS/OFAtomic.h
  • ObjFW/platform/PowerPC/OFAtomic.h
  • ObjFW/platform/x86/OFAtomic.h
  • ObjFWRT/ObjFWRT.h
  • ObjFWTLS/ObjFWTLS.h

Some things still need to be checked on a global level:

  • ❌ Includes that are not installed on every OS
  • ❌ Classes that already reserve ivars need to be considered to be changed to restricted subclassing
  • ❌ All classes either restrict subclassing or reserve ivars
  • ❌ All exception throws need to be audited (they're part of the API, too!)
  • ❌ OFSerialization is up for consideration to be removed