PropertiesChanged signal, take 2

David Zeuthen zeuthen at gmail.com
Wed May 12 12:43:30 PDT 2010


Hey,

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
<luiz.dentz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Have you considerer PropertyChanged (only one property)? Afaik match
> rules only support string matching so we will probably be unable to
> register signal handlers in a per property basis, which IMO is a much
> better design than PropertiesChanged which sends many, also at least
> in BlueZ/ofono/connman Ive hardly see us updating a bunch of
> properties at once and if that is required it is probably because they
> should all be grouped together in a single property.

Yes, I considered this but I don't think it's a good idea because it
makes it makes it impossible to do atomic changesets (e.g. two or more
properties changing at the same time).

Thanks,
David


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