PropertiesChanged signal, take 2

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quarta-feira 12. Maio 2010, às 21.43.30, David Zeuthen escreveu:
> 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).

True, however many automatic emissions of the signal will not be able to 
detect the atomic changesets.

For example, the code I have in mind for QtDBus will always emit this signal 
with one entry in the array.

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