Re: Trouble finding GIR constructor for Soup.Cookie

[Ricardo Gladwell <ricardo gladwell gmail com>]

Hi Jasper

Thanks for the feedback, I guess I'll have hold off on development of my 
Gnome Shell extension until these issues are resolved and updates pushed 
to an F15 repo. Any ideas when this might be?

Kind regards...

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Ricardo Gladwell <ricardo gladwell gmail com>
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On 07/23/2011 09:21 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> 2011/7/23 Ricardo Gladwell <ricardo gladwell gmail com
> <mailto:ricardo gladwell gmail com>>
>
>     The following is also crashing my Gnome Shell session despite being
>     surrounded by a try...catch block:
>
>                 let cookieJar = new Soup.CookieJar();
>                 let cookie = Soup.Cookie.prototype.new('SID', this.sid,
>     '.google.com <http://google.com>', '/', -1);
>                 cookieJar.add_cookie(cookie);
>                 session.add_feature(cookieJar);
>
>     Any ideas why?
>
>
> If it's what I think it is, it's an unfortunate bug between
> gobject-introspection, gjs and libsoup. See, the API defines a few
> properties called 'add-feature' and 'add-feature-by-type', designed for
> the C API:
>
>    g_object_new (SOUP_TYPE_SESSION,
> "add-feature-by-type", SOUP_TYPE_PROXY_RESOLVER_DEFAULT,
>      NULL);
>
> But this is interfering with gobject-introspection, and gjs is thinking
> it's the property it wants when you do "session.add_feature".
> Unfortunately, they don't give it a proper getter, so we get stuck with
> a warning, and maybe a crash. See BGO bug #655149 [0] and bug #655150
> [1] for details. Unfortunately, this isn't fixed yet: gjs doesn't care
> about the typelib when looking for properties, it just looks them up on
> the typeinfo. I have a quick patch, but it's probably best if it goes
> into the girepository API proper.
>
>     TIA...
>
>     --
>     Ricardo Gladwell <ricardo gladwell gmail com
>     <mailto:ricardo gladwell gmail com>>
>     http://www.google.com/profiles/ricardo.gladwell
>     Twitter: @rgladwell - MSN: axonrg gmail com <mailto:axonrg gmail com>
>
>
> Jasper
>
> [0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655149
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655150