Services calling back to clients

[Ross Burton]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 08:29 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 07:47 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > When a server's method is bound, it has no way of accessing the
> > DBusMessage which caused it to be executed.  Is this correct?
> 
> I think so yes, but it's important which part of the message you were
> after (the sender)
> 
> You could always pass in the sender explicitly in the method signature,
> as a worst-case workaround hack.

That is what I am currently doing.  It's vile. :)

> The bindings could also add a context object as first arg to every
> method, and get_sender() could be a function on the context object.

Currently the binding signature goes:

object, in_arg, ..., *out_arg, ..., *error

If there was a context object to avoid excessive arguments the error
could be part of the context.  Colin?

Ross
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