[Bug 19423] Generate stringification functions for enums

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19423

--- Comment #1 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-05-10 08:56:56 PDT ---
For the record: the reason we can't have a GEnum or GFlags type for D-Bus
things is that putting unrecognised values in these is considered to be a
programming error, whereas our enum/flags annotations on D-Bus are merely
advisory and we have to be prepared to receive whatever the other end sends us.

At the D-Bus level, it's just an integer of the appropriate type - Telepathy
usually uses unsigned 32-bit, but Geoclue uses signed 32-bit, and the Telepathy
DTMF interface uses an unsigned byte.

In particular, the other end might be using a version of telepathy-python that
implements a newer spec than we do, so its in-range values might be
out-of-range from our perspective.

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