Errors and the introspection format

[Thiago Macieira]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>There alreayd is an annotation
>
> 
> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#introspection-f
>ormat
>
>  org.freedesktop.DBus.Method.NoReply

Oops, of course. I apologise, I must have missed it when writing my code.

Corrected now. My point in the earlier message is, therefore, moot.

>I'm not clear on how this is supposed to be used in pratice though. As
>a service, I can annotate a method with this, and not send any return
>message, but if a client isn't looking for the annotation, it'll hang
>forever.

It'll get an org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply error when the timeout 
timer expires (default currently set to 25 seconds).

A method call to a given method can only happen in one of two 
circumstances: 1) the code was written to call it or 2) it was 
introspected.

If it's case #1, the code knows what to expect. Nobody writes code that 
calls random methods in random interfaces without introspection. (And if 
you're doing that, you should be punished and get your application frozen 
every now and then)

If it's case #2, again either the application knows what what to expect 
and that it's not supposed to wait for a reply.

#1 would break only if there's a change in the method contract.

BTW, now that we're on the subject, what does the 
org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.CSymbol annotation mean?
-- 
Thiago José Macieira - thiago.macieira AT trolltech.com
Trolltech AS - Sandakerveien 116, NO-0402 Oslo, Norway
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