Short lived, or "private", objects on the bus

[Simon McVittie]

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On Fri, 18 May 2007 at 12:55:09 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> The problem is: If Search is and object on the bus, then what happens if
> another app decides to connect to the Search object? AFAIK there's no way to
> prevent this in dbus, but my knowledge here is pretty limited I must admit
> (hence my question on this list).

If you want to enforce the invariant that only one app calls methods on
each Search object, you can check the D-Bus message sender against the
calling app's unique name. D-Bus bindings should provide a way to get
the sender name (I hope they do, anyway, since a couple of methods in the
Telepathy D-Bus API are unimplementable on bindings that don't expose this
information).

Or, you can just document this requirement and say "don't do that".
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