DBus Object Paths and Refcounting

[Thiago Macieira]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
>For one thing, it's completely impossible to implement it in QtDBus. It
>owns only a weak reference to the object, so it knows if it was deleted,
>but cannot prevent the deletion from happening.

Let me add one thing:

While I think this kind of feature should not be mandatory for bindings 
(and cannot be part of libdbus-1), it can be provided as convenience 
functions by those same bindings.

So, after thinking for 60 seconds, I did come up with a way of doing that 
very feature in QtDBus. It would require, just like boost::shared_ptr, 
that you relinquish control of your object to the framework.

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