dbus unmarshalling

[gahcep man]

Is anybody here?

Does anybody knows the answer? Even your thoughts will be usefull.

If i'm writing to wrong place, feel free to tell me.


On 8 August 2011 17:39, gahcep man <promdev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody.
>
> All last week i tried to work with bluez dbus api. Everything is clear for
> me now except the question about unmarshaling complex structures in dbus
> messages. For example, method "GetProperties" from "org.bluez.Adapter"
> interface returns array of dictionary records of string and variant. So, i
> have three complex situations: 1 is array, 2 is dictionary record, 3 is
> variant. And i cannot handle with this.
> Can you tell me what kind of strategies or algorithms or libraries should i
> use to completely parse this values.
> Maybe glib? or others? Is the only decision to use a python?
>
> P.S. I saw in dbus sources that unmarshalling structures is not supported
> yet. So why?
>
> This is what i need to receive from method "GetProperties": (D-Feet output)
> {u'Address': u'00:15:83:41:3F:3F',
>  u'Class': 5767424L,
>  u'Devices': [],
>  u'Discoverable': 0,
>  u'DiscoverableTimeout': 0L,
>  u'Discovering': 0,
>  u'Name': u'gahcepvm-0',
>  u'Pairable': 1,
>  u'PairableTimeout': 0L,
>  u'Powered': 1,
>  u'UUIDs': [u'00001000-0000-1000-8000-
> 00805f9b34fb',
>             u'00001001-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb',
>             u'00001112-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb',
>             u'0000111f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb',
>             u'0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb',
>             u'0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb',
>             u'0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb',
>             u'00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb',
>             u'00001106-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb']}
>
> P.S.S. Sorry for my English )
>
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