Re: introspection

[Andrea Zagli <azagli libero it>]

Il giorno ven 21 nov 2014 14:13:33 CET, Daniel Espinosa ha scritto:
> I've forgot you are using GI not Vala bindings, then no meta information
> could be used. You should use GI Anottations.
>
> Your library is internal or to be used by scripts written, for example, in
> phython?

what do you mean with "internal"?

libconfi (and others libraries that i said) is a library that i used  
with my softwares; as i do with gtk or libgda or ...


> If it's internal not to be used in scripts, then you don't need to expose
> its API to GObject Introspection (GI).
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection/Annotations
>
> But that means to modify code in the library to add comments.
>
> Because this libconfi is not fully introspectable (at least automatically)
> library, you should use (rename-to) annotation, I think in all the API, in
> order to add a name space. The problem here is may be GI doesn't support to
> rename GObject definitions or class definitions.
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection/Annotations#Rename_to
>
> If you aren't using lot of libconfi's API in your scripts, you can create a
> wrapping library, fully introspectable one.

i'll try ASAP


> You should use
> Il giorno gio 20 nov 2014 22:06:15 CET, Daniel Espinosa ha scritto:
>
> > I found in your GIR file, it don't detect (for example) confi_new() as a
> > function of Confi object and it is not introspectable. Also, all functions
> > are "free" no related to any GObject. Then you haven't provided enough
> > information to detect namespace and its GObjects.
> >
> > You should add a prefix, as a namespace, to your object and its functions.
> > If you have any problem, please let me check if your C code is GObject
> > compliant.
>
>
> http://saetta.ns0.it/gitweb?p=solipa/confi/libconfi;a=tree;
> h=refs/heads/libgda5;hb=refs/heads/libgda5
>
>
>
>  Prefix is not for instrospection, is a way allow GI to parse your C code
> > correctly and generate valid GIR files.
> >
> > Another way is to use meta information, but I recommend to avoid that. Is
> > better to use annotations to fix things. But for you, if use metadata, you
> > should add lot of metainformation.
>
> where can i find a sample? or documentation
>
> in this library it is fairly simple to change functions name because i
> don't use the library
>
> but i have some other libraries with, i think, the same namespace/prefix
> problem; and these are heavily used in my software, so i cannot change
> functions name
>
>
>  [...]
> >
>
>
> thanks again