Argument array of strings
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Sat Oct 21 10:00:26 PDT 2006
Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> This is _not_ on purpose just a screwup. I think we should put #ifndef
> DBUS_DISABLE_DEPRECATED around this function and introduce
> dbus_message_iter_get_n_elements() that does something useful.
>
I'm adding the DBUS_DISABLE_DEPRECATED but I don't think we really need
get_n_elements() at least not before 1.0.
dbus_message_iter_get_fixed_array already returns the number of
elements, so it isn't needed there.
For string arrays, the implementation of get_n_elements() would have to
iterate over the array and count the number of strings, while most
people would probably assume it's faster than that. So, for now just
letting people iterate-and-count themselves seems fine.
Also, dbus-glib at least contains a misuse of get_array_len(), everyone
should probably check for this in their code.
Havoc
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