Functions directly under namespace are not available

[Thomas Martitz]

Hello, I'm trying to load a typelib (for http://github.com/geany/geany). It seemed to work fine at first but then I found that functions that are directly in the namespace Geany are not avialable.

See example below. I would expect that that I could invoke Geany.build_activate_menu_item but it's not defined.

Tell me if you want me to upload the .gir and .typelib file. Alternatively you can compile https://github.com/kugel-/peasy against Geany > 1.28

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- This file was automatically generated from C sources - DO NOT EDIT!
To affect the contents of this file, edit the original C definitions,
and/or use gtk-doc annotations.  -->
<repository version="1.2"
            xmlns="http://www.gtk.org/introspection/core/1.0"
            xmlns:c="http://www.gtk.org/introspection/c/1.0"
            xmlns:glib="http://www.gtk.org/introspection/glib/1.0">
  <include name="GLib" version="2.0"/>
  <include name="GObject" version="2.0"/>
  <include name="GeanyScintilla" version="1.0"/>
  <include name="Gtk" version="3.0"/>
  <c:include name="geanyplugin.h"/>
  <namespace name="Geany"
             version="1.0"
             shared-library="libgeany.so.0"
             c:identifier-prefixes="Geany"
             c:symbol-prefixes="geany">
    <function name="build_activate_menu_item"
              c:identifier="build_activate_menu_item">
   [...]
    </function>
  </namespace>
[...]

[Thomas Martitz]

Btw, my code to load the typelib is:

repo = GObjectIntrospection::IRepository.default
repo.require("Geany")
GirFFI.setup(:Geany, '1.0')

I found that, apparently, I can do Geany.setup_method("build_activate_menu_item"), and then invoke it via Geany.build_activate_menu_item(). This seems very inconvenient and requires me to know about all functions.

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

@kugel- yeah, the setup_method bit should happen automatically.

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

Btw, my code to load the typelib is:

repo = GObjectIntrospection::IRepository.default
repo.require("Geany")
GirFFI.setup(:Geany, '1.0')

The repository handling bit happens automatically, so you can just do:

GirFFI.setup :Geany

[Thomas Martitz]

@mvz Excuse me, I think the error was on my side, for some reason. I looked at the code and found that such methods should be lazily loaded via method_missing. Then I tried again and couldn't reproduce the problem (Geany.methods not showing them due to lazy loading added to my confusion).

Maybe just close this. Is there a test case specifically for this?

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

Yes, lazy loading is what happens with these methods, so if that is working for you I'll close this.