Comments on: Vala 0.5.3

By: Vala Toys for gEdit | perSbaglio

Vala Toys for gEdit | perSbaglio — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:08:26 +0000

[...] http://blogs.gnome.org/juergbi/2008/12/17/vala-053/ [...]

By: juergbi

juergbi — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:31:34 +0000

We actually already have experimental support for generating nice GObject based D-Bus binding. For the following code snippet

[DBus (name = "org.gnome.Foo")]
public interface Foo : Object {
public abstract void frobnicate (string bar);
}

Vala will generate an internal class FooDBusProxy that implements the interface Foo and you can use the following generated function from C to use the D-Bus service:

Foo* foo_dbus_proxy_new (DBusGConnection* connection, const char* name, const char* path);

By: John (J5) Palmieri

John (J5) Palmieri — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:17:38 +0000

Pretty cool on the D-Bus front. I wonder if the Vala code could be abstracted to make better D-Bus GLib bindings. Something like adding annotation to methods comments and having a vala subset parse that during a build.