GSoC 2024

GSoC 2024: Week 3-4 Report  Project Add support for the latest GIR attributes and GI-Docgen formatting to Valadoc Mentor Lorenz Wildberg Week 3 : default-value attribute for property Parsing the "default-value" attribute into a member access:  In continuation of the work done previously, we tried to set the prop. initializer of the corresponding Vala.Property from the default-value attribute by parsing it as an enumerator member. We parsed the default-value into a member access in GirParser.process(), but trying to regenerate the bindings resulted in errors like this: We got these errors because the default-value attribute in the vala GIRs actually contains the "c:identifier" of the enum member. However the function     parse_enumeration_member()   in the GirParser parses it into an EnumValue  using its "name" attribute and not the "c:identifier" attribute. Thus when we try to p arse the default-value attribute into a member access, the par

Project Add support for the latest GIR attributes and GI-Docgen formatting to Valadoc. Mentor Lorenz Wildberg Project Planning In the Phase I of this project, our focus is on adding support for latest GObject Introspection attributes to vapigen and the vala compiler. Currently we are adding support for the glib:sync-func , glib:async-func , and glib:finish-func attribute for method, and the default-value attribute for property. To accomplish this, we need to understand how the GirParser builds the AST from the GIR data, and how the GirWriter writes into the GIR file using the AST. The latter is a bit easy, because the GirWriter simply visits all code nodes and prints each one of them into the GIR file. However, we found the first one to be pretty challenging, about which we will discuss in a bit! Week 1: Support for  glib:sync-func , glib:async-func , and glib:finish-func attributes Firstly we went through vala GIR files to decide how to implement support for these attributes:      

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