Object path values - which service do they belong to?

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Tue May 17 10:07:13 PDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 17:14 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> 
> As I understand it, the intention is that object paths are service
> local.  If you get an object path back from a service, it refers to an
> object on that service.  If you're passing inter-service object paths,
> I'd suggest just using DBUS_TYPE_STRING.
> 
You can use DBUS_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH to go between services, why not?

However yes the object path is with respect to a specific app on the
bus. So to "fully specify" an object you need to know the bus it's on,
the bus name, and the object path.

Havoc




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