Turn all ID param specs into object param specs (e.g. GimpParamImageID
becomes GimpParamImage) and convert between IDs and objects in
gimpgpparams.c directly above the the wire protocol, so all of app/,
libgimp/ and plug-ins/ can deal directly with objects down to the
lowest level and not care about IDs.
Use the actual object param specs for procedure arguments and return
values again instead of a plain g_param_spec_object() and bring back
the none_ok parameter.
This implies changing the PDB type checking functions to work on pure
integers instead of IDs (one can't check whether object creation is
possible if performing that check requires the object to already
exist).
For example gimp_foo_is_valid() becomes gimp_foo_id_is_valid() and is
not involved in automatic object creation magic at the protocol
level. Added wrappers which still say gimp_foo_is_valid() and take the
respective objects.
Adapted all code, and it all becomes nicer and less convoluted, even
the generated PDB wrappers in app/ and libgimp/.
We now have both variants, one returning a GList, and another
returning an array. Turns out that while a list is often nicer,
sometimes a random-access array really keeps the code much simpler.
Adapt all plug-ins, and clean up a bit (like use g_list_reverse() once
instead of iterating the list reversed).
I.e.: gimp_image_get_(layers|channels|vectors)(), gimp_image_list() and
gimp_item_get_children().
Instead of returning an array of IDs, these will now return a GList with
the right objects ready to use.
Michael Natterer