DBUS service using glib: question

[Ross Burton]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 10:58 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote:
>  - Clients has a name returned by dbus_g_method_get_sender. But how
> clients can get his name ? My idea is to register a new object for each
> client with path "/org/blah/<client's name>". But the client has to know
> his name to know the path. Is it possible ? Or should I register an
> object with a method like "GetObjectPath" which returns the path of the
> object registered for the client calling this method ?

dbus_get_unique_name() will return the processes name on the bus.  It
might be better to return the object path of the object you create when
clients register with the server, this way you can change the naming
scheme in only one place.

>  - Another question: Is it possible to have methods with valist in args
> or with the printf syntax. for example func(char *format, ...); ?

It's possible with the low-level APIs (as the client can add arguments
as required, and the server could iterate over the message directly),
but the glib bindings don't support it.  Pass an array instead?

Ross
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