[Glade-devel] dispose, finalize and close_impl methods not been called for glade_project

[tristanvb at openismus.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:25 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 01:22 -0300, Marco Diego Aur?lio Mesquita wrote:
> > Hi devs!
> >
> > I'm working on some improvements for the preview feature[1] but I got
> > stuck. Glade must kill current running previews when a project is
> > closed, but, I don't know why, the finalize, dispose, and close_impl
> > methods are not been called. What is happening? What should I do?
> >
> > The attached is part of my ongoing work on this issue. It's full of
> > debug printf's but shows that the finalize, dispose, and close_impl
> > methods are not been called.
>
> I looked at the patch briefly, currently it still includes 
> unneeded functions like glade_preview_kill_preview().
>
>  - glade_preview_kill_preview() should be an implied exercise 
>    by way of finalizing a GladePreview.
>  - The hash table bookkeeping the running previews should
>    hold the reference to the previews (i.e. the GDestroyNotify
>    for the hash table of previews should be g_object_unref).
>  - glade_preview_add_watch() should go away and the watch should
>    be added internally by the preview object, and destroyed
>    properly when the preview is unreffed.
>  - If the preview is notified that the child preview process
>    died, it should emit a "die" signal so that the GladeProject
>    which owns the preview can use that to remove it from the
>    hash table, resulting in it's dispose/finalize.
>
> Please deal with these basic API/functionality issues first,
> if the ref counts dont balance after that I'll help you take
> a look at it and make sure that it finalizes properly.
>
> Hint:
>  From GladeProject creating a preview should be:
>
>  /* comes with initial ref */
>  preview = glade_preview_launch (...);
>
>  /* hash table takes a ref */
>  g_hash_table_insert (project->priv->preview_hash, preview...);
>
>  /* pass ownership of the preview to the hash table */
>  g_object_unref (preview);

Correction, you wouldn't need to unref the preview explicitly
here because above you give the initial ref to the hash table.

Cheers,
   -Tristan

>  /* Watch previews that die */
>  g_signal_connect (preview, "die", 
>                    G_CALLBACK (remove_preview_from_hash_cb),
>                    project);
>
>
> ... furthermore, the GDestroyNotify for the preview hash should
> be a function that first disconnects the "die" signal callback
> and *then* unrefs the preview.
>
> Cheers,
>     -Tristan
>
> > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637835
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