compiler error when trying to send a list of structs containing a list of strings over DBus

[Markus Korn]

When I try to compile the following code in karmic or lucid I get an error:

client.vala
===========

struct Data {
   public int id;
   public string[] data;
}

[DBus (name = "org.example.Test")]
interface Test : Object {
   public abstract int TestMethod (Data[] x) throws DBus.Error;
}

void main () {
   var conn = DBus.Bus.get (DBus.BusType.SESSION);
   var test = (Test) conn.get_object ("org.example.Test", "/org/example/test");
}

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markus@markus-lucid-vbox:~/devel/vala_playground$ valac --pkg dbus-glib-1
client.vala
[... (some never used warnings) ...]
/home/markus/devel/vala_playground/client.vala.c: In function
‘_dbus_test_TestMethod’:
/home/markus/devel/vala_playground/client.vala.c:271: error: invalid type
argument of ‘->’ (have ‘Data’)
/home/markus/devel/vala_playground/client.vala.c: In function
‘test_dbus_proxy_TestMethod’:
/home/markus/devel/vala_playground/client.vala.c:539: error: invalid type
argument of ‘->’ (have ‘Data’)
error: cc exited with status 256
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 5 warning(s)

markus@markus-lucid-vbox:~/devel/vala_playground$ valac --version
Vala 0.7.9

Markus

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

The upstream bugreport has a patch for this issue, it would be nice if this could be fixed for lucid

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Thanks for the report.

The vala 0.7.10 is Lucid should contain the fix.