Re: [Vala] Strange Behaviour?

[Thomas Jollans <t jollybox de>]

On 06/27/2012 11:12 AM, Nor Jaidi Tuah wrote:
> > That sounds reasonable - I don't know the MySQL API, but I had  a quick
> > look at the C API docs and it they don't say that the user has to clean
> > up the returned pointers, which implies that the library takes care of
> > it, which means it's only safe to use the result immediately after
> > obtaining it.
> >
> > The usual way to use an API like this is to go through the results in a
> > loop and save the data you need in your own data structures.
>
> I thought the usual way in vala is to wrap it
> in vala-style "memory management". Maybe it is
> not possible in this case.

If it was the kind of API where the user, in C, is required to call a 
clean-up function, then yes, Vala does that for you. Here, the return 
value is a weak reference in Vala, which is probably the closest you'll 
get without writing an actual wrapper library in Vala (instead of simply 
using an API definition file)

> hand
> Nor Jaidi Tuah
>
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