Re: [anjuta-devel] New project interface and introspection

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi Abderrahim,

I have changed the AnjutaProjectNode to use GObject, it's working but 
there are two issues.

1. In C, when you create a node you get a reference to it and when you 
add it in the project, the parent increment the reference count too. So 
you need to call g_object_unref after inserting each node in the project 
which is the most common operation. I have thought to use floating 
reference, but I'm afraid I have to use some uncommon functions those 
will not be fully supported. In Python, it doesn't matter because the 
call to g_object_unref is done automatically.


2. Reloading a node is done in a different thread. To avoid accessing 
the same object from a different thread, before loading the node, I 
remove it from the project tree replacing it with a dummy node and pass 
the original node to the loading function. But if some other piece of 
code has kept a reference on the original node, it is possible that both 
the worker thread and this code use the same object. So, it's quite 
dangerous to get a reference on a node object anyway.


Do you have some idea to solve these issues ?


Regards,

Sébastien