wayland-server 0.21.13

Bindings to the standard C implementation of the wayland protocol, server side.
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Server-side Wayland connector ## Overview This crate provides the interfaces and machinery to safely create servers for the wayland protocol. It is a rust wrapper around the `libwayland-server.so` C library. The wayland protocol revolves around the creation of various objects and the exchange of messages associated to these objects. Whenever a client connects, a `Display` object is automatically created in their object space, which they use as a root to create new objects and bootstrap their state. ## Protocol and messages handling model The protocol being bi-directional, you can send and receive messages. Sending messages is done via methods of `Resource<_>` objects, receiving and handling them is done by providing implementations. ### Resources The protocol and message model is very similar to the one of `wayland-client`, with the main difference being that the handles to objects are represented by the `Resource` type. These resources are used to send messages to the clients (they are called "events" in the wayland context). This is done by the `Resource::::send(..)` method. There is not a 1 to 1 mapping between `Resource` instances and protocol objects. Rather, you can think of `Resource` as an `Rc`-like handle to a wayland object. Multiple instances of it can exist referring to the same protocol object. Similarly, the lifetimes of the protocol objects and the `Resource` are not tightly tied. As protocol objects are created and destroyed by protocol messages, it can happen that an object gets destroyed while one or more `Resource` still refers to it. In such case, these resources will be disabled and their `alive()` method will start to return `false`. Events that are subsequently sent to them are ignored. ### Implementations To receive and process messages from the clients to you (in wayland context they are called "requests"), you need to provide an `Implementation` for each wayland object created in the protocol session. Whenever a new protocol object is created, you will receive a `NewResource` object. Providing an implementation via its `implement()` method will turn it into a regular `Resource` object. **All objects must be implemented**, even if it is an implementation doing nothing. Failure to do so (by dropping the `NewResource` for example) can cause future fatal protocol errors if the client tries to send a request to this object. An implementation is just an `FnMut(I::Request, Resource)` where `I` is the interface of the considered object. The `Resource` passed to your implementation is guaranteed to be alive (as it just received a request), unless the exact message received is a destructor (which is indicated in the API documentations). ## Event loops and general structure The core of your server is the `Display` object. It represent the ability of your program to process wayland messages. Once this object is created, you can configure it to listen on one or more sockets for incoming client connections (see the `Display` docs for details). To properly function, this wayland implementation also needs an event loop structure, which is here provided by the `calloop` crate. It is a public dependency and is reexported as `wayland_server::calloop`.