Re: returning a string to d-bus

[Tomas Carnecky <tom dbservice com>]

Luka Napotnik wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have a D-BUS listener with a GObject method which should send a string
> back to D-BUS. My d-bus listener method is:
>
> gboolean
> some_object_get_name(GObject *object, gchar *str, GError **error)
> {
>         str = g_strdup("Hello");
>         return TRUE;
> }
>
> But when the client connect to this d-bus interface and calls the
> get_name() method, the method doesn't return the string. I'm guessing
> I'm passing the string the wrong way. Please help.

You probably want:

gboolean
some_object_get_name(GObject *object, gchar **str, GError **error)
{
    *str = g_strdup("Hello");
    return TRUE
}

and call that function this way:

gchar *str = NULL;
if (some_object_get_name(object, &str, &error) == TRUE)
    gprintf("name: %s\n", str);