Problem sending message from Python

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 17:51 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> In <1114440303.6761.6.camel at remedyz.boston.redhat.com>, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> 
> > Python right now only understands int32 since it is an untyped language.
> 
> [Snip]
> 
> > The other option is for
> > Rox to switch to just using int32 for now if it really doesn't need the
> > uint.  I have no idea why this worked in the 0.2x series.
> 
> The component of ROX that receives the message is written in C, but that
> is trying to read DBUS_TYPE_INT32 anyway. The capplet sending the
> message is pure Python and has no control over the type, because it just
> calls rox_settings.SetInt(self.name, self.int_value) where rox_settings
> is a dbus object. I've tried the int cast operator on int_value, but
> that doesn't help.
> 
> I don't see how the problem can be anywhere else but in the dbus
> library. MessageIter.append_int32 has changed between the two APIs.
> 
> -- 
> TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

I just found the bug. The signatures for UInt16 and Int32 were switched
in the bindings.  Will do a 0.33.1 release this weekend. 

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John (J5) Palmieri
Associate Software Engineer
Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
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