[patch] remove DBusGPendingCall

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:58 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 15:19 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > What I mean is, don't you want to pass the DBusGProxy * to the callback
> > here?  (And change the typedef above to hold it)?  People might have
> > additional data keyed off the proxy instead of in user data for the call
> > or something.  For example you might just pass your generic app data to
> > an async call, and when it returns do a 
> > g_hash_table_lookup (appdata->outgoing_get_book_calls, proxy) to get
> > additional data instead of creating a new structure with the main app
> > data and the call-specific data and passing that as your user data.
> 
> Ah, I see.
> 
> Well for all of my code the proxy pointer is a member of the state so
> the user_data is good enough, and I'd assumed that is how people would
> be working.  I'll bow to your superior judgement here though.

Well, it parallels how the non-wrapped callbacks pass the proxy in; in
an example program I'm about to commit I look up the proxy in the main
data structure.

> > Also I just noticed - the wrappers don't seem to provide a means of
> > cancelling the call?  Shouldn't you return the DBusGProxyCall instead of
> > always returning TRUE?
> 
> Yes, I had a TODO in there so that callers could tell if it worked some
> way or another.
> 
> New patch with these changes and yet more tests attached.

Cool, thanks.  Do you think you could do the GCallback/G_CALLBACK() bits
from the other part of this thread so it compiles with C++?


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