Hello, for the first sight your format looks verybsimilar to key-value files already supported by GLib:
https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Key-value-file-parser.html http://valadoc.org/#!api=glib-2.0/GLib.KeyFile Are you sure it won't work for your problem? If it would, you may want to subclass it. Best, Gergely On Mar 21, 2016 2:26 PM, "Alan Manuel Gloria" <almkg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Vala world, > > I'm trying to make some kind of description loader. I have a base class > like so: > > class Concept : Object { > string name { get; construct; } > string desc { get; construct; } > } > > And one or more classes, e.g.: > > class Component : Concept { > uint size { get; construct; } > uint cost { get; construct; } > } > class Weapon : Component { > uint damage { get; construct; } > } > > My goal is to parse some text file like so: > > [Blaster I] > type = Weapon > desc = A simple blaster. > size = 20 > cost = 200 > damage = 1 > > Then the parser class will provide a collection of Concept objects > indexable by name and type. > > My question is, how do I best do this? Gtk.Buildable seems to approximate > what I want, so I suppose I need to figure out how that works. > > My initial research seems to suggest that I need to use GLib.Type somehow, > but my understanding is that the exact type does not get created until it > is used. It seems to me that I'd need code like: > > var p = new MyTextFileParser(); > p.register(typeof(Component)); > p.register(typeof(Weapon)); > // ... and so on ... > > Thanks in advance. > > Sincerely, > AmkG > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > vala-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
