[webkit-dev] How to prevent conditional interfaces from being added as supplemental interfaces

[Sergio Villar Senin]

Hi,

I've been trying to build the GTK port without geolocation support and
found that is no longer possible (after r108610). The reason is because
that commit removes an #ifdef guard that was hiding the actual issue IMO.

Thing is that NavigatorGeolocation.idl specifies a conditional interface
to be added to the Navigator interface. It seems fine as the conditional
clearly specifies that it needs the GEOLOCATION feature. The generated
code properly has the #ifdef guards to ensure that the generated code is
only built if geolocation is enabled. The problem is that it generates a
function whose signature is something like

WebKitDOMGeolocation*
webkit_dom_navigator_get_geolocation(WebKitDOMNavigator* self);

It does not matter that the implementation is correctly surrounded by
the proper #ifdefs as the doc says[1] because the compiler will always
complain due to the lack of WebKitDOMGeolocation object.

So my question is, shouldn't the platform specific bindings generators
(resolve-supplemental.pl maybe?) skip the addition of supplemental
interfaces to their parents if the specified conditions are not met?

BR

[1]: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/IdlAttributes