org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll

[Thiago Macieira]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
>The dbus spec defines a Properties interface with methods:
>
>  VARIANT Get(STRING interfaceName, STRING propName)
>  void    Set(STRING interfaceName, STRING propName, VARIANT value);
>
>I'd like to add to the spec:
>
>  DICT<STRING,VARIANT> GetAll(STRING interfaceName)

I agree with that proposal.

>Also somewhat missing here is change notification, but I can't think of
>any reasonable way to do it since the efficiency tradeoffs are pretty
>different in different situations.

I would oppose that change. It's completely impossible to implement it in 
Qt. Any such addition to the API would be a method to "sometimes get 
notified of changes", since not all backends can support it.

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