IPC: set ws reply "num" member to -1 when named

When a named workspace (i.e., a workspace that has a name that does not
begin with text that can be parsed as an integer greater than or equal
to zero) is represented by the ipc as a workspace json object such as
can be queried with `i3-msg -t get_workspaces`, set the num property to
-1 instead of json null.

This is for convenience of ipc consumers using type-constrained
languages such as C which have difficulty cleanly expressing nullable
integers.

fixes #1368
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Tony Crisci 2014-09-22 01:09:25 -04:00 committed by Michael Stapelberg
parent 8870edc2ca
commit fd8a2b0e51
3 changed files with 3 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ following properties:
num (integer)::
The logical number of the workspace. Corresponds to the command
to switch to this workspace.
to switch to this workspace. For named workspaces, this will be -1.
name (string)::
The name of this workspace (by default num+1), as changed by the
user. Encoded in UTF-8.

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@ -617,9 +617,6 @@ IPC_HANDLER(get_workspaces) {
y(map_open);
ystr("num");
if (ws->num == -1)
y(null);
else
y(integer, ws->num);
ystr("name");

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@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ sub check_order {
my ($msg) = @_;
my @ws = @{$i3->get_workspaces->recv};
my @nums = map { $_->{num} } grep { defined($_->{num}) } @ws;
my @nums = map { $_->{num} } grep { $_->{num} != -1 } @ws;
my @sorted = sort @nums;
is_deeply(\@nums, \@sorted, $msg);