Re: [Vala] Read only members for wrapped libraries

[Raffaele Sandrini <raffaele sandrini ch>]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 17:39 +0100, Andreas Sliwka wrote:
> Greetings,
>   is it possible decorate a struct or class member in a vapi file so
> that vala only allows read access to it?
>
> For example take this excerpt from the SDL/SDL.h file (SDL being a
> gamers library):
>
> /* This structure should be treated as read-only, except for 'pixels',
>    which, if not NULL, contains the raw pixel data for the surface.
> */
> typedef struct SDL_Surface {
>     Uint32 flags;               /* Read-only */
>     SDL_PixelFormat *format;        /* Read-only */
>     int w, h;               /* Read-only */
>     /* etc */
> }
>
> I'd like to have vala issue a warning when a new value would be
> assigned to any of these attributes.
That is not possible for fields atm.
It would be possible to add attributes to fields on which the compiler
would warn/abort on certain actions to that field.

cheers,

Raffaele