PropertiesChanged signal, take 2

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 12.05.10 15:41, David Zeuthen (zeuthen at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> Hey,
> 
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > How do you detect whether the signal is implemented? You have to parse the
> > remote object's introspection?
> 
> Yup, that's one option. The spec wording is that if you include the
> signal in the introspection XML, then you promise to emit it (except
> for properties you opt out with using the annotation).

Hmm, Could we extend this a little so that we can set the annotation on
the class interface itself too, to set a default for the interface that
is then overridable per-property? In systemd I have a metric truckload
of properties on each service, which means that the introspection data
is already kinda big, and instead of annotating every single property as
EmitsChangedSignal=true_no_value I'd prefer having to annotate that only
once for the interface. Makes the introspection XML blurb smaller and
more readable.

Lennart

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