DBus Extensions

[Thiago Macieira]

Simon McVittie wrote:
>At first glance it looks easy to support Maybe in the current
>dbus-python API, but in fact, to do so you'd either have to use some
>awkward wrapper class, or use an object that isn't None for the
>"NULL-like" case (violating least astonishment), or (again) drop support
>for distinguishing between different levels of variant nesting.

I'm with you here.

Since most languages need a bool to represent such a nullable type, plus 
the object itself if it exists, I don't see why D-Bus can't adopt the 
same solution.

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