[anjuta-devel] New project interface and introspection

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi Abderrahim,

I have compiled anjuta with introspection enable and try it a bit. I 
have get a few troubles to build it but it seems to work. I understand a 
bit better how it's working.

I think the current interface can work if we add (transfer none) 
annotation on all AnjutaProjectNode object returned by various 
functions. It will means the object doesn't belong to the caller which 
is the case, because all modification must be done through the provided 
functions. I think another option is to consider that all 
AnjutaProjectNode are constant.

I have created a simple anjuta_project_node_new and 
anjuta_project_node_free function and it works without any warnings. So 
I think introspection works fine with such object, it can handle void 
pointer correctly.

Then they are several open points.

1. I don't know how to add specific data. By example in python if I have 
an object that I want to associate to this AnjutaProjectNode structure 
what should I send as argument. Is a gpointer enough to keep this python 
object ?

2. I can try to check what is the difference between creating a 
AnjutaProjectNode like it is now and a GObject representing a node. If I 
use the second choice, it would be nice to have different GType for 
group node, source node and so on. But all could have different save 
functions, it is possible or is it considered as virtual functions ?

3. I need to check what is the difference between using GObject or the 
current structure for project node. Indeed currently, you need to 
explicitly call the _new and _free function. Using GObject, the new 
function is needed but I think the free function is needed too to 
release the last reference. I'm not sure it makes a real difference but 
I need to think more about this.

4. The gir scanner understand the AnjutaProjectNode correctly but get a 
trouble with AnjutaProjectProperty. AnjutaProjectNode get the right name 
Anjuta.ProjectNode while the property keep the C name, 
AnjutaProjectProperty. I don't know why, I will try to investigate a bit.

Regards,

Sébastien