Re: [Vala] help with writting vapi...

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

> From: Matrix <pigex zhang gmail com>

> Sent: Sunday, 22 November 2015, 8:07
> Subject: [Vala] help with writting vapi...
>
> i'm writting hiredis vala's binding..
>
> here is a function like this:
>
> redisContext *redisConnectWithTimeout(const char *ip, int port, const 
> struct timeval tv);
>
> so, how to tell the valac that the 3rd param is struct value not struct 
> pointer?



Another useful nugget from the Legacy Bindings document
( https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/LegacyBindings#Structs ):
"Very rarely the struct in a C library is used by passing it as a value to functions and not a reference
...[This pattern] should be bound using Vala's SimpleType attribute to override Vala's default behaviour of 
passing structs by reference"
So add
[SimpleType]
before your struct in the binding.

If that works then that section of the document makes
more sense if it is under the 'Binding Parameter Types'
section. I'll add a structs sub-section there and move
that paragraph there if it is helpful for others.

Al