Review Request 129103: Generate metadata.json file at build time

[Marco Martin]

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Ship it!




Ship It!

- Marco Martin


On Oct. 4, 2016, 11:31 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 4, 2016, 11:31 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Plasma.
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> Repository: kpackage
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> Description
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> In plasma-framework internally we use a QJsonObject for reading the metadata. Providing the metadata in desktop only makes the system have to parse metadata.desktop and then convert it internally into a QJsonObject. Furthermore, to do so we use a desktop file parser that is not very performant (at least in comparison to KConfig's).
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> As part of #129102, we made sure that plasma supports `metadata.json`. This patch leverages it moving the weight of converting desktop to json at compile time.
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> It could even make sense to convert to binary json as well, I wonder whether that would improve at all.
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> Diffs
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>   KF5PackageMacros.cmake 335fc81 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129103/diff/
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> Testing
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> Ran RR 129102 without any metdata.desktop files on my system.
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> Nope, hold the ship its, still needs work.
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> Thanks,
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez
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