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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: My comments on D-BUS
From:       Havoc Pennington <hp () redhat ! com>
Date:       2005-01-22 21:38:36
Message-ID: 1106429916.29183.167.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 17:22 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:43:57 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > It's undocumented but exists. You call Introspect() on an object path
> > and it returns a big XML string with the object instances at or below
> > that path along with the method information.
> > 
> > Implementing Introspect() is currently left to the bindings though so an
> > object implemented in raw libdbus will frequently suck it up and not
> > have the method.
> 
> Hmm, is that actually required for all DBUS services? If so then I guess
> Christian and I have some work to do for Galago and the notification
> daemon ...
> 

It isn't strictly required, but a good language binding probably does
need to use it (or require manual type specification as the perl
bindings do)

Havoc



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