Re: ANNOUNCE: D-Bus 0.50 - "You run and you run to catch up with the sun, but � sinking" is released

[Jamie McCracken]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:

> If you want a feature in now is the time to send that patch or discuss
> it with a D-Bus developer.  
> 

yes I have some requests for the glib bindings but some of them would 
break the exisitng bindings so I'm not expecting them to be implemented.

But theres no harm in asking, so :

1) The Glib bindings currently uses GValue for DBUS_TYPE_VARIANT whilst 
a better mapping might be GValueArray. The Gvalue mapping can be 
problematic when the variant holds a struct as there is no way to access 
individual struct members from a GValue (this is particularily a problem 
in cases where the struct could contain anything) and also when passing 
a G_BOXED_TYPE as an input variant parameter (how can the variant derive 
the correct signature from a Gvalue holding a struct?).

2) I need support for DBUS DICTs of signature a{sv} which need to map to 
a GHashTable containing (string, GValueArray)

I can of course do all the above by manually recursing the variant/dict 
and mapping variants manually to GValueArrays, so not supporting the 
above wont be a shostopper but it would be nice to not leak the low 
level dbus calls in apps if possible.


-- 
Mr Jamie McCracken
http://www.advogato.org/person/jamiemcc/