Convert _Bool to gboolean for backward compatibility.

See !24 for the discussion

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/giscanner/transformer.py b/giscanner/transformer.py
index b7d1facc..f5a2f477 100644
--- a/giscanner/transformer.py
+++ b/giscanner/transformer.py
@@ -699,6 +699,15 @@ raise ValueError."""
         canonical = self._canonicalize_ctype(ctype)
         base = canonical.replace('*', '')
 
+        # While gboolean and _Bool are distinct types, they used to be treated
+        # by scanner as exactly the same one. In general this is incorrect
+        # because of different ABI, but this usually works fine,
+        # so for backward compatibility lets continue for now:
+        # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/merge_requests/24#note_92792
+        if canonical == '_Bool':
+            canonical = 'gboolean'
+            base = canonical
+
         # Special default: char ** -> ast.Array, same for GStrv
         if (is_return and canonical == 'utf8*') or base == 'GStrv':
             bare_utf8 = ast.TYPE_STRING.clone()