server: document wl_event_loop and wl_event_source

This documents all the public API related to wl_event_loop and
wl_event_source objects.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com>
[Pekka: fixed typos pointed by Yong]
[Pekka: fixed typos pointed by Christopher]
Reviewed-By: Christopher James Halse Rogers <christopher.halse.rogers@canonical.com>

1 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/wayland-server-core.h b/src/wayland-server-core.h
index 61da8ab..fd458c5 100644
--- a/src/wayland-server-core.h
+++ b/src/wayland-server-core.h
@@ -43,11 +43,88 @@ enum {
 	WL_EVENT_ERROR    = 0x08
 };
 
+/** File descriptor dispatch function type
+ *
+ * Functions of this type are used as callbacks for file descriptor events.
+ *
+ * \param fd The file descriptor delivering the event.
+ * \param mask Describes the kind of the event as a bitwise-or of:
+ * \c WL_EVENT_READABLE, \c WL_EVENT_WRITABLE, \c WL_EVENT_HANGUP,
+ * \c WL_EVENT_ERROR.
+ * \param data The user data argument of the related wl_event_loop_add_fd()
+ * call.
+ * \return If the event source is registered for re-check with
+ * wl_event_source_check(): 0 for all done, 1 for needing a re-check.
+ * If not registered, the return value is ignored and should be zero.
+ *
+ * \sa wl_event_loop_add_fd()
+ * \memberof wl_event_source
+ */
 typedef int (*wl_event_loop_fd_func_t)(int fd, uint32_t mask, void *data);
+
+/** Timer dispatch function type
+ *
+ * Functions of this type are used as callbacks for timer expiry.
+ *
+ * \param data The user data argument of the related wl_event_loop_add_timer()
+ * call.
+ * \return If the event source is registered for re-check with
+ * wl_event_source_check(): 0 for all done, 1 for needing a re-check.
+ * If not registered, the return value is ignored and should be zero.
+ *
+ * \sa wl_event_loop_add_timer()
+ * \memberof wl_event_source
+ */
 typedef int (*wl_event_loop_timer_func_t)(void *data);
+
+/** Signal dispatch function type
+ *
+ * Functions of this type are used as callbacks for (POSIX) signals.
+ *
+ * \param signal_number
+ * \param data The user data argument of the related wl_event_loop_add_signal()
+ * call.
+ * \return If the event source is registered for re-check with
+ * wl_event_source_check(): 0 for all done, 1 for needing a re-check.
+ * If not registered, the return value is ignored and should be zero.
+ *
+ * \sa wl_event_loop_add_signal()
+ * \memberof wl_event_source
+ */
 typedef int (*wl_event_loop_signal_func_t)(int signal_number, void *data);
+
+/** Idle task function type
+ *
+ * Functions of this type are used as callbacks before blocking in
+ * wl_event_loop_dispatch().
+ *
+ * \param data The user data argument of the related wl_event_loop_add_idle()
+ * call.
+ *
+ * \sa wl_event_loop_add_idle() wl_event_loop_dispatch()
+ * \memberof wl_event_source
+ */
 typedef void (*wl_event_loop_idle_func_t)(void *data);
 
+/** \struct wl_event_loop
+ *
+ * \brief An event loop context
+ *
+ * Usually you create an event loop context, add sources to it, and call
+ * wl_event_loop_dispatch() in a loop to process events.
+ *
+ * \sa wl_event_source
+ */
+
+/** \struct wl_event_source
+ *
+ * \brief An abstract event source
+ *
+ * This is the generic type for fd, timer, signal, and idle sources.
+ * Functions that operate on specific source types must not be used with
+ * a different type, even if the function signature allows it.
+ */
+
 struct wl_event_loop *
 wl_event_loop_create(void);