C convenience lib (was Re: Is dbus_pending_call_set_notify() thread safe?)

[Thiago Macieira]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> 1) does it handle properly the introspections for objects with
>> sub-nodes only (no interfaces)? I.e., object paths that were created
>> only because they have children objects, like /org for
>> /org/freedesktop/DBus.
>
>If you register a "fallback handler" for a whole subtree you would
>normally implement Introspect() on that subtree also, since libdbus
>doesn't know what's "inside" it.

I was talking about the leading path to an object that was registered. 
That is, nothing registered /org, but it must exist 
because /org/freedesktop/DBus does.

libdbus-1 must generate it.

>> 2) how does it insert the sub-nodes XML entries for existing objects?
>> That is, suppose I register /foo and /foo/bar. If I get the
>> introspection call for /foo, does libdbus-1 insert the <node
>> name="bar"/> into my XML data?
>
>The only thing libdbus does is that if all app handlers return
>NOT_YET_HANDLED for an Introspect(), it has a default Introspect()
>implementation that just lists the registered child nodes. This default
>implementation is used for nodes that nobody owns, for example usually
> "/"

Good. This answers the question above.

>If you handle Introspect() at all, you have to handle it entirely by
>listing the child nodes and including them in your xml, with
>dbus_connection_list_registered()

Good, that makes sense. The apidox doesn't say so, but does it return only 
immediate paths?

Example:
	/foo
	/foo/bar
	/foo/bar/baz
dbus_connection_list_registered("/foo")  returns "bar/baz" too?

>> 3) does dbus_bus_add_match causes a reference count to go up
>> somewhere? (preferrably, in the daemon)
>
>Right, if you add the same match 3 times you must remove it 3 times
>before it goes away.

Good. Those are the good answers to my questions.

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