Bug 48821 - add support for GVariant-based method calls
Summary: add support for GVariant-based method calls
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: dbus
Classification: Unclassified
Component: GLib (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Simon McVittie
QA Contact: D-Bus Maintainers
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Keywords: patch
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-04-17 07:39 UTC by Simon McVittie
Modified: 2015-02-09 14:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
[1/3] dbus_g_message_read_variants, dbus_g_message_write_variants: add and test (21.59 KB, patch)
2012-04-17 07:40 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[2/3] dbus_g_connection_call_async: add and test (19.12 KB, patch)
2012-04-17 07:40 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[3/3] lcov.am: fix to work in out-of-tree builds (1.27 KB, patch)
2012-04-17 07:40 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[01/11] dbus_g_message_read_variants, dbus_g_message_write_variants: add and test (22.12 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:25 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[02/11] dbus_g_connection_call_async: add and test (22.79 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:26 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[03/11] lcov.am: fix to work in out-of-tree builds (1.27 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:27 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[04/11] define MY_OBJECT_IFACE for tests to use (707 bytes, patch)
2013-10-21 17:27 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[05/11] Factor out a common test_assert_no_error macro (4.71 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:27 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[06/11] test_run_until_round_trip: add (1.68 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:27 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[07/11] Fix building other projects against an uninstalled dbus-glib (1.02 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:28 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[08/11] Add GVariant-based signal subscriptions (12.83 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:28 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[09/11] Add a test for DBusGProxy (16.93 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:28 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[10/11] Add GVariant-based async method replies (6.17 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:29 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review
[11/11] Add non-GError-based async method errors (5.02 KB, patch)
2013-10-21 17:29 UTC, Simon McVittie
Details | Splinter Review

Description Simon McVittie 2012-04-17 07:39:24 UTC
Porting telepathy-glib to GDBus is clearly going to be a bit of a nightmare, but we can attack it from multiple angles.

One relatively easy thing we can do is to make some of our method calls using GVariant, rather than DBusGProxy.
Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2012-04-17 07:40:01 UTC
Created attachment 60172 [details] [review]
[1/3] dbus_g_message_read_variants,  dbus_g_message_write_variants: add and test

These will let us send GVariant-based messages over libdbus connections,
to facilitate porting from dbus-glib to GDBus.
Comment 2 Simon McVittie 2012-04-17 07:40:27 UTC
Created attachment 60173 [details] [review]
[2/3] dbus_g_connection_call_async: add and test

This is basically the same API as g_dbus_connection_call_async, but
implemented in terms of libdbus. This means we can use a DBusGConnection
in telepathy-glib to make method calls that look suspiciously like a
GDBus call, reducing the size of the "flag day" commit we'll have to
make when we switch from dbus-glib to GDBus.

To support this, make GIO a public dependency.
Comment 3 Simon McVittie 2012-04-17 07:40:43 UTC
Created attachment 60174 [details] [review]
[3/3] lcov.am: fix to work in out-of-tree builds
Comment 4 Dan Williams 2012-10-22 23:42:19 UTC
Comment on attachment 60172 [details] [review]
[1/3] dbus_g_message_read_variants,  dbus_g_message_write_variants: add and test

Review of attachment 60172 [details] [review]:
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If you don't have DBusBasicValue you're also not going to have DBus8ByteStruct, so we'll need a private copy of that in dbus-gvariant.c for !HAVE_DBUSBASICVALUE.  Other than that, nothing egregious pops out at me, and it passes the testcases.
Comment 5 Dan Williams 2012-10-22 23:55:22 UTC
Comment on attachment 60173 [details] [review]
[2/3] dbus_g_connection_call_async: add and test

Review of attachment 60173 [details] [review]:
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Perhaps I'm missing something huge, but where in dbus_g_connection_call_async() are the GVariant parameters set on the outgoing message?  Return parameters are processed correctly, but it doesn't look like the outgoing message will have any arguments at all?
Comment 6 Dan Williams 2012-10-22 23:56:18 UTC
Comment on attachment 60174 [details] [review]
[3/3] lcov.am: fix to work in out-of-tree builds

Review of attachment 60174 [details] [review]:
-----------------------------------------------------------------

not really qualified to review this, but looks sane
Comment 7 Simon McVittie 2012-12-04 18:30:08 UTC
I'll return to this one day... but this is not that day.

(In reply to comment #4)
> If you don't have DBusBasicValue you're also not going to have
> DBus8ByteStruct, so we'll need a private copy of that in dbus-gvariant.c for
> !HAVE_DBUSBASICVALUE.

True. At this point I think we could also just require dbus 1.6 - if you don't have that then you're just not keeping up.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Perhaps I'm missing something huge, but where in
> dbus_g_connection_call_async() are the GVariant parameters set on the
> outgoing message?

Er... nowhere, but the test doesn't exercise parameters either, so I didn't catch this error. This needs fixing when I have time to resume dragging telepathy-glib into the future (or at least the present).
Comment 8 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:25:11 UTC
Created attachment 87939 [details] [review]
[01/11] dbus_g_message_read_variants,  dbus_g_message_write_variants: add and test

These will let us send GVariant-based messages over libdbus connections,
to facilitate porting from dbus-glib to GDBus.

---

Revised to actually handle (and test) parameters, and add documentation.
Comment 9 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:26:52 UTC
Created attachment 87940 [details] [review]
[02/11] dbus_g_connection_call_async: add and test

This is basically the same API as g_dbus_connection_call_async, but
implemented in terms of libdbus. This means we can use a DBusGConnection
in telepathy-glib to make method calls that look suspiciously like a
GDBus call, reducing the size of the "flag day" commit we'll have to
make when we switch from dbus-glib to GDBus.

---

Er, no, it's this one that was revised to handle parameters and add docs; the previous one was amended to not use DBus8ByteStruct (which it didn't actually need, because "char bytes[8]" was enough to force the size). You get the general idea, though.
Comment 10 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:27:25 UTC
Created attachment 87941 [details] [review]
[03/11] lcov.am: fix to work in out-of-tree builds

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The same as before.
Comment 11 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:27:35 UTC
Created attachment 87942 [details] [review]
[04/11] define MY_OBJECT_IFACE for tests to use
Comment 12 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:27:47 UTC
Created attachment 87943 [details] [review]
[05/11] Factor out a common test_assert_no_error macro
Comment 13 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:27:58 UTC
Created attachment 87944 [details] [review]
[06/11] test_run_until_round_trip: add
Comment 14 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:28:12 UTC
Created attachment 87945 [details] [review]
[07/11] Fix building other projects against an uninstalled  dbus-glib

The magic variables used in the -uninstalled.pc.in don't seem to be
having the desired effect, and in any case, the standard Autoconf
substitutions do what we want.
Comment 15 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:28:25 UTC
Created attachment 87946 [details] [review]
[08/11] Add GVariant-based signal subscriptions
Comment 16 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:28:58 UTC
Created attachment 87947 [details] [review]
[09/11] Add a test for DBusGProxy

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... specifically, the new GVariant-based signal listening (yeah, this patch could have been named better).
Comment 17 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:29:27 UTC
Created attachment 87948 [details] [review]
[10/11] Add GVariant-based async method replies
Comment 18 Simon McVittie 2013-10-21 17:29:39 UTC
Created attachment 87949 [details] [review]
[11/11] Add non-GError-based async method errors
Comment 19 Simon McVittie 2015-02-09 14:11:10 UTC
I'm abandoning this. Most dbus-glib projects have moved to GDBus anyway, the major exception being telepathy-glib which has a different migration strategy (although that migration has stalled).


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