Re: [Vala] Vapigen that validates .metadata entries + output symbol file

[Daniel Hams <daniel hams gmail com>]

Bah, I'm an idiot. Hit Ctrl+Enter by accident.

Heres the bugzilla entry with the patch:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627033

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 12:47 +0100, Daniel Hams wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick mail to announce to those interested I have put a patch in
> bugzilla that refactors the .metadata handling in vapigen. Patch applies
> to HEAD. 
>
>
> Changes to vapigen:
>
> * Check if the metadata attributes (is_array, ellipsis etc) are
> applicable to the symbol they are placed on. If they are not, a warning
> is generated
>
> * Enumerate explicitly all metadata attribute keywords inside the vala
> code
>
> * Centralise parsing/split to double/int/comma delimited etc into one place
>
> * Allow output of a symbols file containing a list of valid attribute keys
> for each symbol discovered during execution
>
> I have regression tested the changes against the existing .vapi packages in 
> git and the changes pass regeneration tests there.
>
> For reference, this patched vapigen did actually find some .metadata errors 
> in the existing git package .metadata files - so it seems to be useful.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan