Re: Adding tny_camel_account_get_supported_secure_authentication().

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 18:52 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Tinymail never return GList's. Each API in tinymail that wants to deal
> with lists, needs to accept a TnyList instance. So a quick fix for that
> is to keep the GList in the function, and at the end in stead of
> returning it, walking it and filling in the TnyLisT using
> tny_list_prepend
> 
> For example: 
> TnyList *list = tny_simple_list_new ();
> tny_camel_account_get_supported_secure_authentication (self, list);
> TnyIterator *iter = tny_list_create_iterator (list);
> while (!tny_iterator_is_done (iter)) {
> 
> etc etc
> 
> TnyLists can only have GObject instances, so if you want to export a new
> type, like a result-item then you need to make a small GObject. This is
> for language bindings, indeed (no alien C struct instances)

This does seem like overkill just for a list of strings. GTK+ language
bindings currently manage to wrap GList* and GSList*s of strings.

Is there really no existing TnyList of strings in tinymail or must I
really implement TnyListOfStrings?

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