[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 16401] [GTK] GObject/C DOM binding

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16401





------- Comment #151 from adam at yorba.org  2009-02-11 09:36 PDT -------
> > When are properties actually useful?
> 
> Another very important point is that they allow automatic binding generation
> through gobject-introspection with the right semantics.

gobject-introspection is aware of both properties and methods.  The Vala
bindings generator, for example, uses (a version of) gobject-introspection to
find out about GObject classes. Each GObject property becomes a Vala property,
and each GObject method becomes a Vala method.  With the current patch DOM
objects have both properties and getters/setters, and all of these end up
reflected into the Vala world.  So in Vala you could write either
node.parent_node or node.get_parent_node(), for example.

It's not clear to me what you mean by "the right semantics" here.  Are you
asserting that DOM attributes should be reflected into higher-level languages
as properties in those languages, and that gobject-introspection can enable
that only if they are available as GObject properties?  Is there some specific
application or use case that will suffer if attributes are available only
through getters/setters?


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