Re: Introspection API

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:48 +0100, Christian M wrote:
> Is a repository a single shared library or a complete view of all
> available types in the system?
> If not it could be reasonable to be able to query for all classes that
> implements a
> specific interface.
> 
> * Query for all GtkWidgets (Glade etc)
> * Query for all gstreamer objects impl. interface xyz
> * Nautilus extensions
> * etc 

It is meant to contain the types of all shared libraries and dlopened
shared objects. It may make sense to allow queries involving the
inheritance hierarchy like the one you mentioned, although the proposed
api already allows you to obtain the information by iterating over the
interfaces yourself.

Matthias