Re: [Vala] Gda.DataModel.get_value_at C generated code is incorrect

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com> wrote:

> Thanks but (allow-none) annotation doesn't work on Returns:
>
> I have added the following metadata:
>
> DataModel.i_get_value_at unowned=true
> DataModel.i_get_value_at nullable=true
>
> That binds and compiles correctly :-)
>
> I'll search any other API with the same problem.
>
> Then Any return value that can return NULL must be nullable? If so I
> need to add lot of metadata every where.
>
> Do you consider is a GObject Introspection Bug that you can't mark a
> return value as (allow-none)? Because even if you add that annotation
> GIR generator ignores it.

It's tricky. If a method returns an int? (which is int* in C) it's not much
introspectable. For what concerns other structs, this can be special cased
in the vala parser. Feel free to report the relative bugs.

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