Re: [Vala] Support for custom attribute introspection/refle ction?

[Jonathan Ryan <jryan curious-os com>]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:27:16 +0100, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
> Hi Luca
>
> My classes and functions are declared publicly in a shared library:
>
>
> https://gitorious.org/vain/vain/blobs/master/vain-vala-plugin/Source/Main/Vala/ValaCompileExecutableGoal.vala
>
> When I move my classes into the default namespace, GIR successfully
> creates GIR introspection information.
>
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>
> On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 11:12 +0200, Luca Bruno wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:08:56AM +0100, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
> > > I'm trying to generate gir files for my project, but I only get 
> > XMl for
> > > my functions and classes declared outside of my library namespace. 
> > Is
> > > this a known bug?
> >
> > GIR is only for libraries exporting public API.
>
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GObject-Introspection does not support nested namespaces.

Here is a long discussion discussing what and why it was decided:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576327

Nested namespace is what you have in your file.
Putting it in the global removes any nested namespaces and therefore it 
works.

For a gir, you normally have to put the code in the namespace that is
the same name as your package.

As of now the Vala compiler either ignores any nested namespaces, or 
just
generates improper gir code. (which generally causes
g-ir utilities to segfault)

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Jonathan Ryan