[Gajim-devel] Declaring return type of gajim dbus method list_contacts with dbus glib

[Yann Leboulanger]

Øystein Gisnås wrote:
> 2007/8/26, Yann Leboulanger <asterix at lagaule.org>:
>> Øystein Gisnås wrote:
>>> The signature of list_contacts in remote_control.py has changed return
>>> value from undefined to 'av', via 'a{ss}'. The return array has been
>>> changed from undefined to 'a{sv}', via 's'. See
>>> http://trac.gajim.org/changeset/7877 and
>>> http://trac.gajim.org/changeset/7811
>>>
>>> Nautilus-sendto tries to call the method using glib binding. It worked
>>> with previous gaim versions, but not now. The return type is specified
>>> as
>>> dbus_g_type_get_collection ("GSList", dbus_g_type_get_map
>>> ("GHashTable", G_TYPE_STRING, G_TYPE_VALUE))
>>>
>>> The error message being returned is "Expected D-BUS array, got type code 'v'"
>>>
>>> Is the return type in nautilus-sendto wrong, or doesn't the DBus GLib
>>> binding work like it should here?
>>>
>>> This bug is reported against nautilus-sendto at
>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443484 and
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-sendto/+bug/118475
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Øystein Gisnås
>>> Debian Maintainer
>> indeed there seem to be a pb in dbus signatures. unfortunatly I can't
>> test at home (debian unstable) because of that:
>>
>> $ nautilus-sendto gajim.py
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> but if you can you can try to change the out_signatures to a{sv} in
>> src/remote_controle.py ?
>>
>> Maybe the bug is in nautilus-sendto code that handles badly what
>> list_contacts returns ...
> 
> Hi, I tried your suggestion of chaning out_signatures to a{sv}. Now I
> get this error message:
> ** (nautilus-sendto:16598): WARNING **: [Gajim] caught remote method
> exception org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.exceptions.TypeError: Traceback
> (most recent call last):
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/service.py", line 730,
> in _message_cb
>     _method_reply_return(connection, message, method_name, signature, *retval)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/service.py", line 248,
> in _method_reply_return
>     reply.append(signature=signature, *retval)
> TypeError: list indices must be integers
> 
> Does this make sense to you?
> 
> Cheers,
> Øystein
> 

no that doesn't :/
I cc to dbus ML, maybe they could help us ;)

-- 
Yann