Re: [Vala] Reflection : getting values in Gee.Collection

[Felipe Lavratti <felipelav gmail com>]

Sorry, its not clear to me.
Where is the reflection? You will have the Type name of an Object in your
HasMap, then you will want to create an instance with this name?
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 04:32 Baptiste Gelez <gelezbaptiste openmailbox org>
wrote:

> Le 2016-04-09 20:46, Daniel Espinosa a écrit :
> > May you can use HashMap<string,Value?>()
> >
> > Value? Makes boxed any value supported by GLib.Value, almost any
> > value, from basic like int to GLib.Object, any any struct if it is
> > properly boxed.
> >
> > El abr. 9, 2016 12:11 PM, "Baptiste Gelez"
> > <gelezbaptiste openmailbox org> escribió:
> >
> > > Hello everyone !
> > >
> > > I would like to retrieve any property of an object. I presently use
> > > this
> > > code :
> > >
> > > HashMap<string, string> result = new HashMap<string, string> ();
> > >
> > > foreach (ParamSpec spec in obj.get_class ().list_properties ()) {
> > > GLib.Value val = GLib.Value (typeof (string));
> > > obj.get_property (spec.get_nick (), ref val);
> > > result [spec.get_nick ()] = (string) val;
> > > }
> > >
> > > return result;
> > >
> > > There is no problem when I'm getting "simple" values like int,
> > > string,
> > > double, etc ... But I would like to be able to get all the elements
> > > of
> > > Gee.Collection. Have you got any idea of how to do that ?
> > >
> > > Thanks ! (And excuse me for possible English mistakes)
> > >
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> I'm not sure that you well understand my question. I probably poorly
> explained.
>
> I'm building a library that'll be able to transform any object into an
> HashMap<string, string> associating the name of the property with its
> value as a string.
> In the code I presently have, I can do this with basic types like int,
> string, etc. But I would like to get all the elements of a
> Gee.Collection. I can do this by using it's iterator property, but even
> if I know how to enumerate them and how to get their type, I don't know
> how to dynamically create a new instance of this type and convert en
> element of the collection (which I have as an Object) to this type. I
> hope it's clearer now.
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