Re: Signals with gchar** arguments

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 12:52 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:

>     static void
>     authenticate (SoupSession  *session, 
>                   /* other arguments... */
>                   gchar       **username,
>                   gchar       **password,
>                   gpointer      user_data)
>     {
>       /* ... */
> 
>       g_free (*username);
>       *username = g_strdup (lookup_username ());
> 
>       /* ... */
>     }
> 
> Notice that this use of "gchar**" arguments is different from the usage
> as "NULL terminated arrays of strings", aka. "G_TYPE_STRV".

this is probably the most evil use of signals I've seen in a while. ;-)

the SoupSession should really take a AuthenticateCallback function and
emit a signal on success or one on failure.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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