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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: about the D-Bus C API.
From:       Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie () collabora ! co ! uk>
Date:       2007-11-13 18:26:37
Message-ID: 20071113182637.GA5957 () carbon ! pseudorandom ! co ! uk
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 at 11:56:03 -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> See the thread earlier about someone who wanted to send async
> notifications about the progress of a long-running dbus method call.
> You wouldn't broadcast that, you'd send it directly as a unicast
> signal.

Be aware that not all bindings support unicast signals properly (or at
all). I suspect they're more likely to work in bindings that have a
generic "listen for signals matching this rule" function rather than
having to do *everything* through proxy objects.

I'm pretty sure dbus-python supports receiving unicast signals, although
you may have to use the low-level API in dbus.lowlevel to send them. If I
remember correctly, dbus-glib does not.

    Simon
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