Re: [Vala] Binding questions

[Frederik <scumm_fredo gmx net>]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> I actually have an example of this that I ran into today... for
> libuuid.  It seems to inject too many parameters.  When I declare:
>
>   [CCode(lower_case_cprefix="uuid_")]
>   public static void generate(out char[16] new_uuid);
>
> I call this in Vala like so:
>
>   char[16] uuid;
>   LibUUID.generate(out uuid);
>
> When called, Vala writes:
>
>   gint uuid_length1;
>   gchar *uuid;
>   uuid_generate(&uuid, &uuid_length1);

This should do what you want:

  public static void generate([CCode (array_length = false)] char[]
new_uuid);

and

  char[] uuid = new char[16];
  generate(uuid);



Regards,

Frederik