Well, generate classes and load/reload them without recompiling anything would 
be perfect, but perhaps it's not possible in a system like Vala (i mean, 
without an underlying runtime).
Compiling some plugin/library on-the-fly and reload them is an acceptable 
solution, but it's not a very beautiful one.
The goal is to let a user define new types/classes through a web interface, and 
having some web services, serving as entry points in the system,  able to 
manipulate (strongly typed search, sort, and so on) these user-defined 
classes/objects without recompiling and restarting the main app.
To avoid the lost of these user-defined objects after an app or system restart, 
perhaps they can persist on the disk using a library like Catalina.


Le 9 févr. 2010 à 15:46, Denis Kuzmenok a écrit :

> hi,
> the  simpliest way i've found - to make .so libraries, but that is not
> the way i wanted to use them, dynamic linking , etc..
> you want to have add functions and reload module without recompiling?
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
> 
>> I'm wondering what would be the "right" way to generates
>> code/classes at runtime, and reload it into the running program.
>> I thought to use the modules/plugin approach
>> (http://live.gnome.org/Vala/TypeModules) the following way :
>> - generate code than can be reloaded (plugin code, [ModuleInit]) using some 
>> kind of StringBuilder
>> - flush it to a file
>> - compile this file either by forking a valac compiler or perhaps
>> using directly libvala (possible ?)
>> - reload the resulting plugin binary into the app
> 
>> There's probably a better way to accomplish this kind of task.
> 
>> Any idea / suggestion ?
> 
>> Thanks for helping :)
> 
> 

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