Re: Trouble finding GIR constructor for Soup.Cookie

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

2011/7/23 Ricardo Gladwell <ricardo gladwell gmail com>

The following is also crashing my Gnome Shell session despite being
surrounded by a try...catch block:

           let cookieJar = new Soup.CookieJar();
           let cookie = Soup.Cookie.prototype.new('SID', this.sid,
'.google.com', '/', -1);
           cookieJar.add_cookie(cookie);
           session.add_feature(cookieJar); 

Any ideas why?

If it's what I think it is, it's an unfortunate bug between gobject-introspection, gjs and libsoup. See, the API defines a few properties called 'add-feature' and 'add-feature-by-type', designed for the C API:

  g_object_new (SOUP_TYPE_SESSION,
    "add-feature-by-type", SOUP_TYPE_PROXY_RESOLVER_DEFAULT,
    NULL);

But this is interfering with gobject-introspection, and gjs is thinking it's the property it wants when you do "session.add_feature". Unfortunately, they don't give it a proper getter, so we get stuck with a warning, and maybe a crash. See BGO bug #655149 [0] and bug #655150 [1] for details. Unfortunately, this isn't fixed yet: gjs doesn't care about the typelib when looking for properties, it just looks them up on the typeinfo. I have a quick patch, but it's probably best if it goes into the girepository API proper.
 

TIA...

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Jasper

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655149
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655150