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Bug 748852 - Override changes Gst.ElementFactory.make arguments
Override changes Gst.ElementFactory.make arguments
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-python
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-05-03 20:18 UTC by Osmo Salomaa
Modified: 2018-11-03 15:36 UTC
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Description Osmo Salomaa 2015-05-03 20:18:51 UTC 
I have gotten bug reports in Gaupol that the following code doesn't work if the user has gst-python installed (see #748813).

    Gst.ElementFactory.make("textoverlay", name=None)

Your override changes both argument names, thus breaking keyword argument use, which I tend to often prefer since it makes the code self-documenting. To my knowledge, keyword argument use should be fine with PyGObject, i.e. they're part of the API, see e.g. gtk-demo.py [1].

Gaupol doesn't depend on gst-python and I was surprised to find out such a thing still exists, but there was no information at the web site [2]. So, if I may ask, what is this gst-python?, why is it needed?  and is it intended that you override function signatures or just an accident? Can I as an application developer expect that things should work the same for users with and without gst-python?

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/tree/demos/gtk-demo/gtk-demo.py
[2] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-python.html
Comment 1 GStreamer system administrator 2018-11-03 15:36:49 UTC 
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