GLib.Object.new problem

[Gego (Gustav Hartvigsson)]

Hello,
I have just discovered a strange bug in Vala 0.44.3

Consider the code bellow:

using GLib;
public class ABC : GLib.Object {
    public static int main (string[] args) {
    Object a = new Object (typeof (ABC));
    assert (a.get_type () == typeof (ABC));
    return 0;
  }
}

The code looks valid and compiles, but it does not run.

You will get the following error:

(process:9209): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 23:15:21.563: g_object_new_is_valid_property: object class 'GObject' has no property named '\u0001'

So I did some digging and found that the code gen is doing something very wrong, as this is the generated C code:

gint
abc_main (gchar** args,
          gint args_length1)
{
	gint result = 0;
	GObject* a = NULL;
	GObject* _tmp0_;
#line 6 "../test.vala"
	_tmp0_ = g_object_new (G_TYPE_OBJECT, TYPE_ABC, NULL);
#line 6 "../test.vala"
	a = _tmp0_;
#line 8 "../test.vala"
	_vala_assert (G_TYPE_FROM_INSTANCE (a) == TYPE_ABC, "a.get_type () == typeof (ABC)");
#line 10 "../test.vala"
	result = 0;
#line 10 "../test.vala"
	_g_object_unref0 (a);
#line 10 "../test.vala"
	return result;
#line 67 "test.c"
}

As you can see the g_object_new (...) is incorrect.

Or is this the new behaviour for this? How do you set construct-only properties if you can’t do it this way?

Regards
Gustav Hartvigsson

[chrisaw (Chris Williams)]

The binding for g_object_new is Object.new(), not new Object(). Here is an example of a construct-only property using both Object.new() and a normal constructor:

public class ABC : GLib.Object {

    public string prop { get; construct; }

    public ABC (string prop) {
        Object (prop: prop);
    }

}

int main (string[] args) {
    var a = Object.new (typeof (ABC), "prop", "foo");

    var b = new ABC("foo");

    return 0;
}

[Gego (Gustav Hartvigsson)]

I’ll be damned!
I mean, I’ve been using Vala now-and-then for years, I should know this, yet something as simple as this stumped me for hours.

Thanks.