[webkit-gtk] Webkit introspection experiments with Python

[Gabriel Jacobo]

I'm making progress with the introspection stuff, however I have one more 
doubt...

To get the introspection tool to work, i added a --symbol-prefix=webkit to the 
G_IR_SCANNER parameters, and this takes care of a lot of warnings and puts 
many functions working properly into the .gir file.
Some other functions (like get_dom_document) are fixed easily like this:

/**
 * webkit_web_view_get_dom_document:
 * @webView: a #WebKitWebView
 * 
 * Returns: (element-type #WebKitDOMDocument) (transfer none): the 
#WebKitDOMDocument currently loaded in the @webView
 *
 * Since: 1.3.1
 **/


But my doubt is referred to the functions that are located inside the 
DerivedSources directory and that are generated by a script AFAICT. The 
introspection tool complains that there's no transfer mode configured and skips 
these functions (among them, useful in particular for my example, 
get_element_by_id). An easy fix is to bypass this check in 
introspectablepass.py line 113, which gets my example going, but I'd like to 
know how to do a proper bugfix in Webkit, that is, where to place this comments 
g-ir-scanner needs to determine the transfer type, parameters,etc for each 
function.
Perhaps put them all together in a separate "comments only" header file and add 
it to the list of headers that get processed by the tool?

Best Regards,

Gabriel.


On Lun 06 Sep 2010 14:08:02 Xan escribió:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Gabriel Jacobo <gabomdq at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Lun 06 Sep 2010 13:39:59 Xan escribió:
> >> Some of the issues you mention (GTK+ changes) are already fixed in
> >> trunk, others (the introspection ones) aren't. In any case it's always
> >> a good idea to push the patches you do to us, tracking upstream
> >> changes is part of our work.
> > 
> > I'd like to do that, do I fill a bug report or send them attached here?
> 
> Use bugs.webkit.org, WebKitGTK+ component.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Xan