[Vala] GDBus codegen support

[Tiago Katcipis <katcipis inf ufsc br>]

Hi all,

First of all congratulations on such a great idea such as Vala. I'm working
on a very limited environment where C++ is not an option, so to do object
orientation I'm using GObject. But writing GObjects by hand is quite
annoying :-), so Vala is really a boost on GObject development, making such
a high level language generating C code and with low overhead bindings is
just great.

But I'm working with a lot of legacy code written in C/Gobject, algo there
is a lot of GDBus generated code (and of course, DBus interfaces
descriptions, on xml). Now we started to use Vala and it is just great to
write DBus interfaces, the client code and the server code, both are just
easy and beautiful.

But even it being simple...i just feel that I'm repeating myself, having to
map what is defined on the DBus IDL xmls that generates the C code on
Valacode by hand (i know the
Vala code is pretty straightforward, but it is still duplication, manually
doing this is error prone and just annoying). This kind of duplication
irritates me, it does not seen to be healthy :-).

Is there any plan on supporting Vala on GDbus codegen ? I would be very
interested on doing it...and it really seems to be a good idea, but i may
be missing something, or there is another tool that can help.

Best regards,
Tiago Katcipis