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---
layout: post
title: "Vala interface madness"
2016-02-26 15:34:09 +00:00
date: 2016-02-26 13:07:52
2016-02-26 14:24:32 +00:00
tags: [vala, development]
published: true
author:
name: "Gergely Polonkai"
email: "gergely@polonkai.eu"
---
Although I have just started making it in C, I decided to move my
Matrix GLib SDK to Vala. First to learn a new language, and second
because it is much easier to write GObject based stuff with it.
For the first step I created a `.vapi` file from my existing sources,
so the whole SDK prototype was available for me in Vala.
I had a `MatrixEvent` class that implemented the `GInitable`
interface, and many others were subclassed `MatrixEvent`. For some
reason I dont remember, I created the following header for one of the
event classes:
public class MatrixPresenceEvent : GLib.Object, GLib.Initable {
This is nice and everything, but as I didnt create an `init()` method
for `MatrixPresenceEvent`, it tried to use the one from the parent
class and somehow got into an infinite loop. The Vala transformer
(`valac`), however, doesnt mention this.
Lessons learned: if you implement an interface on a subclass that is
implemented by the parent dont forget to add the necessary functions
to the subclass.