Can dbus non-mix null and empty strings?

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Tuesday 06 November 2007 11:49:46 Vitaly V. Ch escreveu:
> if service method return null string QString() - service client
> receive empty string QString("").
>
> It's bug or by "design"?

Design. There's no such thing as null or maybe types in D-Bus.

If you need to support a nullable type, then add a bool to your API indicating 
whether the argument followed is null or not.

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