gst-validate: ensure the top level element is a pipeline

For instance, "fakesrc" will return a fakesrc, not a pipeline.

This is similar to what gst-launch does, and avoids calling
pipeline API on a non pipeline object (and thus asserting).

diff --git a/validate/tools/gst-validate.c b/validate/tools/gst-validate.c
index 39f20a0fdd20adb8664ffda2077c5fd8d82243c3..7e341d3870a935d7acc51513942471d0c8481716 100644 (file)
--- a/validate/tools/gst-validate.c
+++ b/validate/tools/gst-validate.c
@@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ main (int argc, gchar ** argv)
         err ? err->message : "unknown reason");
     exit (1);
   }
+  if (!GST_IS_PIPELINE (pipeline)) {
+    GstElement *new_pipeline = gst_pipeline_new ("");
+    gst_bin_add (GST_BIN (new_pipeline), pipeline);
+    pipeline = new_pipeline;
+  }
 #ifdef G_OS_UNIX
   signal_watch_id =
       g_unix_signal_add (SIGINT, (GSourceFunc) intr_handler, pipeline);