Re: [Vala] VAPI metadata problem

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 08:16:28PM -0700, Jim Nelson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm attempting to build a VAPI for GMime.  (If anyone can point me to a
> completed version, it would be appreciated!)
>
> The problem I'm running into is this:
>
> The namespace for the module is GMime.  The class GMimeStream's type
> conversion macro is GMIME_STREAM but valac auto-generates it as
> G_MIME_STREAM, leading to compilation errors.  I've been unable to find a
> way via the .metadata file to coerce valac to use the proper macro.  The
> type_id field seems to be for the GType of the class (GMIME_TYPE_STREAM) and
> the other fields don't help here either.
>
> In C, the problem is when an instance of a subclass of GMimeStream is being
> passed to a function that expects a GMimeStream:
>
>     g_mime_stream_cat_add_source (stream_cat, G_MIME_STREAM (_tmp14_));
>
> I need valac to use GMIME_STREAM instead.
>
> I'm sure this is something simple, but it's escaping me right now.

Well that's a weird api unfortunately. I fear the only thing you can do is:
GMime lower_case_cprefix="gmime"
But then you have to add cname to all other methods and so on.

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