Fwd: Circular calls with DBUS

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 at 10:41:05 +0100, Jacques Guillou wrote:
> Is there a way to configure the GLib binding in such a way that an incoming
> message can be preocessed even if the main loop execution is stopped into a
> synchronous call (waiting for its answer) ?

I've considered adding this functionality in dbus-python
(probably via "foo_proxy.FooMethod(arg1, arg2, reentrant=True)"). This would
require the main loop to be invoked recursively (obviously that's not a problem
at all in the GLib world, but in Python it's not clear that all possible
main loops would support this).

I think it violates least astonishment to deliver events (D-Bus
signals, other calls, GUI events...) while blocking in an unrelated method
call (which may break non-reentrancy assumptions - GLib programmers can
expect code to be non-reentrant unless otherwise specified, right?), so my
plan is that this will not be the default and must be selected by an explicit
keyword argument.

	Simon