Re: RFC: GProxy, Dynamic Method Invocation

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:

> Over the past few weeks I have been pondering a way to add dynamic
> method invocation and introspection to GObjects. I am meaning to
> implement this myself (unless someone else really want to do it), if
> the reception is luke-warm or better :-)
>
> You can find the draft here:
> http://live.gnome.org/MikkelKamstrup/GProxyIdea you might want to
> follow the links to GPlugin there, but that page is still a bit
> messy...
>
> What I would like to discuss is:
>
> * Is this utter insanity?

In your emails and on the wiki pages you say (combined):
- your implementation shouldn't use code generation;
- you don't want to use libffi to call C methods.

How then, do you actually want to implement dynamic method invocations,
given that all you can hope to get from GModule is an opaque function
pointer once a method is found?

> Cheers,
> Mikkel

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ciaoTJ