TODO

Memory managment

GirFFI does not attempt to free any memory at the moment, or lower the reference count of any objects it gets from GObject. This task therefore involves two parts:

Refactorings

These in the order they occured to me, and may therefore be fixed in any order.

Persistent Ruby GObject identity

GirFFI should make sure that if it gets a pointer to a GObject for which a Ruby object already exists, the existing object is returned. This involves the use of WeakRef, no doubt.

Handle fundamental objects that are not GObject.

This is a big one. See commit 1e9822c7817062a9b853269b9418fd78782090b5 in gobject-introspection, and TestFundamentalObject in Regress.

The tests for TestFundamentalObject accidentally pass, but there may be hidden issues.

Check binding of GObject:

(11:37:03 PM) walters: the basic story is that GObject should be manually bound (11:47:02 PM) ebassi: the really necessary bits are: GObject/GInitiallyUnowned memory management; properties accessors; GSignal connection API (11:47:15 PM) ebassi: the rest is “nice to have” (11:47:37 PM) ebassi: oh, and probably GBinding - but that's just because I wrote it ;-)

Use FFI::DataConverter to automatically convert GObject types

GirFFI now generates loads of Something.wrap(ptr) calls; Perhaps these can be replace by implementing to_native and from_native in ClassBase and including FFI::DataConverter.

See Also

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