Introspect method call

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Wed Feb 28 08:25:32 PST 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:41 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >If someone is using straight libdbus with no binding, they have to
> >implement it themselves, because libdbus doesn't know the introspection
> >info.
> 
> Which actually reminds me: how does libdbus handle introspections for 
> objects with sub-objects? Does the library modify the XML to append the 
> <node> tags? Or does it require the introspected object to do that?
> 
> I don't see a way of retrieving the sub-objects present at a given object 
> path (I am notoriously bad at finding stuff, so it might be there and I 
> didn't see it).

libdbus is dumb on purpose here.  It will only return what your
application wants it to return.  This is why we recommend using
bindings.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>



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