Re: [Vala] Chaining up constructors.

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 11:00 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 04:53 -0500, Yu Feng wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 10:03 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 00:13 -0500, Yu Feng wrote:
> > > > Both vala 0.5.1 and trunk fails to smoothly switching the parent
> > > > classes. if I have extra stuff in the creation methods.
> > >
> > > Do you have an example or bugzilla link?
> >
> > I was experiencing the problem with that piece of DOM project. this is
> > an abridged version:
> >
> > class AAA: Object {
> >
> >
> >     public AAA() {
> >         int i = 10;
> >     }
> > }
> > class BBB: AAA {
> >
> >     public int j {get; construct;}
> >     public BBB() {
> >         base();
> >         j = 100;
> >     }
> > }
>
> You should use "private set" here instead of "construct" with the new
> construction scheme. This shouldn't cause any issues.

The situation is:
(1) I need j to be a construct property because the object eventually is
going to be created with g_object_new.
(2) I need to chain up to parent creation method because I can't touch
the private members of the parent in the child class.

Yu
> Jürg