girparser: Add support for string "ctype" metadata

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vala/issues/793

diff --git a/vala/valagirparser.vala b/vala/valagirparser.vala
index 0a93cecce65d883fea7d91ac00e05d9a10f7c18f..30daab5babfcc834ba685dfc02f584d5775ec23f 100644 (file)
--- a/vala/valagirparser.vala
+++ b/vala/valagirparser.vala
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ public class Vala.GirParser : CodeVisitor {
                FINISH_VFUNC_NAME,
                NO_ACCESSOR_METHOD,
                CNAME,
-               DELEGATE_TARGET;
+               DELEGATE_TARGET,
+               CTYPE;
 
                public static ArgumentType? from_string (string name) {
                        var enum_class = (EnumClass) typeof(ArgumentType).class_ref ();
@@ -2618,7 +2619,11 @@ public class Vala.GirParser : CodeVisitor {
                        start_element ("type");
                }
 
-               ctype = reader.get_attribute("c:type");
+               if (metadata.has_argument (ArgumentType.CTYPE)) {
+                       ctype = metadata.get_string (ArgumentType.CTYPE);
+               } else {
+                       ctype = reader.get_attribute("c:type");
+               }
 
                next ();