using dbus in the platform

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Tuesday 09 October 2007 19:31:12 Simon McVittie escreveu:
> However, at the moment there are cases (like register_object_path) where
> it's very hard to tell whether you are actually complying with the API
> contract. dbus-python internally keeps track of what object paths are in
> use, just so it can comply with the libdbus API. This leads to a large
> amount of unnecessarily subtle code that I should never have had to
> write - the only reason it works at all is that dbus-python uses a
> private bus connection (a shared bus connection would completely break
> this approach), and I leak a small amount of memory if OOM
> happens at precisely the wrong point, because that's the least bad thing
> I can do.

In this specific case, I'd argue that register_object_path should fail with a 
normal error if the object cannot be registered due to it already being 
there. There's no need for a try_* function.

By the same logic, the unregister function should not fail if there isn't any 
object registered at the path. That way, a user that wants to override a path 
can call unregister, then register.

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