wayland-client: add example for bypassing Dispatch

wayland-client/examples/list_globals_no_dispatch.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+use std::os::fd::OwnedFd;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use wayland_client::{
+    backend::{self, Backend},
+    protocol::{wl_display, wl_registry},
+    Connection, Proxy,
+};
+
+// This struct represents the data associated with our registry.
+struct RegistryData(Arc<Connection>);
+
+// Instead of implementing Dispatch on some global state, we will implement
+// ObjectData for our registry. This is required to receive events
+// (specifically, the wl_registry.global events) after our wl_registry.get_registry request.
+impl backend::ObjectData for RegistryData {
+    fn event(
+        self: Arc<Self>,
+        _: &Backend,
+        msg: backend::protocol::Message<backend::ObjectId, OwnedFd>,
+    ) -> Option<Arc<dyn backend::ObjectData>> {
+        // Here, we parse the wire message into an event using Proxy::parse_event.
+        let (_registry, event) = wl_registry::WlRegistry::parse_event(&self.0, msg).unwrap();
+
+        // Similar to the dispatch example, we only care about the global event and
+        // will print out the received globals.
+        if let wl_registry::Event::Global { name, interface, version } = event {
+            println!("[{}] {} (v{})", name, interface, version);
+        }
+        None
+    }
+
+    // This method is called whenever the object is destroyed. In the case of our registry,
+    // however, there is no way to destroy it, so we will mark it as unreachable.
+    fn destroyed(&self, _: wayland_backend::client::ObjectId) {
+        unreachable!();
+    }
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    // Create our connection like the Dispatch example, except we store it in an Arc
+    // to share with our registry object data.
+    let conn = Arc::new(Connection::connect_to_env().unwrap());
+    let display = conn.display();
+
+    let registry_data = Arc::new(RegistryData(conn.clone()));
+
+    // Send the `wl_display.get_registry` request, which returns a `wl_registry` to us.
+    // Since this request creates a new object, we will use the `Proxy::send_constructor` method
+    // to send it. If it didn't, we would use `Proxy::send_request`.
+    let _registry: wl_registry::WlRegistry = display
+        .send_constructor(wl_display::Request::GetRegistry {}, registry_data.clone())
+        .unwrap();
+
+    println!("Advertised globals:");
+
+    // Invoke our roundtrip to receive the events. This essentially is the same as the
+    // `EventQueue::roundtrip` method, except it does not have a state to dispatch methods on.
+    conn.roundtrip().unwrap();
+}

wayland-client/src/lib.rs

@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@
 //! APIs from `wayland-backend`, allowing you to register callbacks for those objects that will be invoked
 //! whenever they receive an event and *any* event queue from the program is being dispatched. Those
 //! callbacks are more constrained: they don't get a `&mut State` reference, and must be threadsafe. See
-//! [`Proxy::send_constructor`] for details about how to assign such callbacks to objects.
+//! [`Proxy::send_constructor`] and [`ObjectData`](crate::backend::ObjectData) for details about how to
+//! assign such callbacks to objects.
 //!
 //! ### Interaction with FFI
 //!
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@
 //! it to your dependencies and enabling its `client_system` feature.
 //!
 //! - If you need to send pointers to FFI, you can retrive the `*mut wl_proxy` pointers from the proxies by
 //!   first getting the [`ObjectId`](crate::backend::ObjectId) using the [`Proxy::id()`] method, and then
 //!   using the `ObjectId::as_ptr()` method.
 //! - If you need to receive pointers from FFI, you need to first create a
 //!   [`Backend`](crate::backend::Backend) from the `*mut wl_display` using the `from_external_display()`