[Vala] go-introspection to specify types of collections? (was: Re: [vala] gtk+-2.0: add type arguments to Table.children field)

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

Hi guys, I have a question about this commit.

Wasn't gobject-introspection actually meant to solve the need of 
specifying things like this in the bindings?

TIA


On 08/25/2011 07:24 PM, Evan Nemerson wrote:
> commit 867806428eb72a991db76d26732c5bcfb6104a78
> Author: Evan Nemerson<evan coeus-group com>
> Date:   Tue Aug 16 20:36:42 2011 -0700
>
>      gtk+-2.0: add type arguments to Table.children field
>
>      Fixes bug 655586.
>
>   vapi/gtk+-2.0.vapi                       |    2 +-
>   vapi/packages/gtk+-2.0/gtk+-2.0.metadata |    1 +
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> ---
> diff --git a/vapi/gtk+-2.0.vapi b/vapi/gtk+-2.0.vapi
> index 75d6c8d..658fdc9 100644
> --- a/vapi/gtk+-2.0.vapi
> +++ b/vapi/gtk+-2.0.vapi
> @@ -4181,7 +4181,7 @@ namespace Gtk {
>         }
>         [CCode (cheader_filename = "gtk/gtk.h")]
>         public class Table : Gtk.Container, Atk.Implementor, Gtk.Buildable {
> -               public weak GLib.List children;
> +               public weak GLib.List<Gtk.TableChild>  children;
>                 public weak Gtk.TableRowCol cols;
>                 public uint16 ncols;
>                 public uint16 nrows;
> diff --git a/vapi/packages/gtk+-2.0/gtk+-2.0.metadata b/vapi/packages/gtk+-2.0/gtk+-2.0.metadata
> index 5aa68ba..ed79043 100644
> --- a/vapi/packages/gtk+-2.0/gtk+-2.0.metadata
> +++ b/vapi/packages/gtk+-2.0/gtk+-2.0.metadata
> @@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ GtkStyle.bg_pixmap weak="0"
>   gtk_style_copy type_name="Style" transfer_ownership="1"
>   gtk_style_lookup_color.color is_out="1"
>   gtk_style_get_style_property.value is_out="1"
> +GtkTable.children type_arguments="TableChild"
>   GtkTable:row-spacing accessor_method="0"
>   GtkTargetEntry is_value_type="1"
>   GtkTargetList.list type_arguments="TargetPair"
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