[ARROW-15671] [GLib] Generate Vala VAPI file

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 8.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 9.0.0
• Component/s: C, GLib
• Labels: features pull-request-available
• Environment: GLib/GTK/GNOME/Vala
• Flags: Important
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31125

Language

Vala

• Assignee: Kouhei Sutou
• Reporter: Taozuhong
• Created: 13/Feb/22 12:31
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:38
• Resolved: 09/May/22 01:48

Description

We have output the GObject introspection file(.gir) with C_GLib, could we step forward to generate the Vala VAPI file(*.vapi) and install it for GLib(C) packages?

```
vapigen --library Arrow Arrow-1.0.gir.gir
vapigen --library ArrowDataset ArrowDataset-1.0.gir
```

Reference: Projects/Vala/Bindings - GNOME Wiki!

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12419
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12993