Re: Canonicalizing property names

[Martin Pitt <martin pitt ubuntu com>]

Daniel Drake [2012-10-31 13:13 -0600]:
> Working on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686942
> I need to revisit the canonicalize_key() calls made when
> setting/getting properties that are owned by gi.
> 
> Can anyone explain the reasoning behind this, what it solves/avoids?

GLib properties usually use hyphens between the parts of the names,
but these aren't valid Python identifiers. So if you request a
property like "myobject.button_color" it needs to translate that into
requesting the "button-color" property from the actual GObject.

> Should it only be applied to properties which are owned by a class in
> the gi repository (as the code currently is) or should we be doing it
> for all properties (including those defined by the user at the Python
> level)?

I think it should apply to all properties; those defined at the Python
level should also use hyphen-style.

Martin

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