Re: [Vala] Impossible to subclass from gio stream classes?

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 18:58:54 +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > I'd like to subclass GLib.BufferedInputStream.
> > Vala doesn't like the following construct:
> >
> > class MyStream : GLib.BufferedInputStream {
> >     MyStream (GLib.InputStream base_stream) {
> >         base (base_stream);
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > $ valac mystream.vala --pkg gio-2.0
> > mystream.vala:3.3-3.20: error: chain up to
> > `GLib.BufferedInputStream..new' not supported
> >         base (base_stream);
> >         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> >
> > Am I doing it wrong? BufferedInputStream has a constructor that takes
> > one GLib.InputStream.
>
> Short story:
> ------------
>
>    MyStream (GLib.InputStream _base_stream) {
>        base_stream = _base_stream;
>    }
>
> Long story:
> -----------
>
> [...]
> --
>                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb ucw cz>

I take it this has changed recently?
Last time I checked constructor chaining worked flawlessly. Is there
any documentation on this new behavior?