[Telepathy] telepathy-glib GObjectIntrospection update

[Danielle Madeley]

Some time ago I had a play with getting GObjectIntrospection working for
telepathy-glib, and got very wedged. Well I've dusted this work off and
started hacking on it again.

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/danni/telepathy-glib.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/js

What works:

 - account manager and account preparation work, there is a very simple
   am.js that prepares the valid accounts and gets the current presence

What doesn't work:

 - any other callback usage (e.g. tp_connection_call_when_ready); I'm
   not sure what the error is here, I'm not sure how much time to spend
   on it given that it's going to be replaced

Evil hacks:

 - there is a program called gir-scrubber.py which rewrites things I 
   don't like in the generated GIR file, e.g. GArray_guint_
 - the method calls in TpProxy don't work with introspection because 
   their first argument is a gpointer, not a TpProxy* -- this is 
   arguably a bug in the introspector -- it's currently worked around
   using a proxy-introspectable.h

ToDo:

 - decide how to handle the D-Bus API. In order to take advantage of 
   language features, I think it makes the most sense to use the
   specparser to generate a D-Bus API per target, and somehow tie this
   back in to Tp.Proxy. Thoughts appreciated.

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Danielle Madeley
Software Developer, Collabora Ltd.                  Melbourne, Australia

www.collabora.co.uk