Re: GObject Introspection: array type too unspecific?

[Michael Kappert <michael kappert gmx net>]

On 07/07/2011 01:07 AM, Florian Müllner wrote:
> 2011/7/6 Michael Kappert
> >     g_type_info_get_array_type returns a GIArrayType which only
> >     distinguishes "C", ptr, byte and nested arrays. This does not seem
> >     to be enough to generate wrappers automatically. The exact array
> >     element type needs to be known.  (Or doesn't it? I'm using CLISP's
> >     FFI that does the wrapping for me, I'm not too familiar with C.)

> I think you are misunderstanding GIArrayType.
> To determine the actual element type, you can use something along the
> lines of

> GITypeInfo *element_info = g_type_info_get_param_type (type_info, 0);
> GITypeTag element_type = g_type_info_get_tag (element_info);

Thanks!
I didn't think of parameterized types and so I couldn't make any sense 
of g_info_type_get_param_type(info, n) ...

But now I wonder, how do you determine the number of parameters?


Michael