Re: GDBusProxy missing bus signals during construction

[Roger James <roger beardandsandals co uk>]

On 24/07/15 12:26, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 21:59 +0100, Roger James wrote:
> <snip>
> > I propose to get this by round this by subscribing to the Avahi
> > ItemNew
> > signal  on my "AvahiServer"  proxy to catch the updates and then
> > unscribing it after I have connected the gobject signal on the
> > 'AvahiServiceBrowser' proxy.  Even just typing that makes ny head
> > hurt!
> > I have no idea how that will play in the heavily multi-threaded
> > enviroment this is eventually to be deployed in.
> >
> > I will post the new code back here for posterity later.
> Or fix Avahi directly?
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/9
>
> That will all save us time in the long run...
Hi Bastien,

I am really annoyed that that link did not come up all my searching. It 
would have saved me a lot of investigation. I suppose I did not look at 
the avahi issues list because I did not think the api could have have 
been designed that way. To old stagers like me a server that 
communicates with clients via api that potentially works over a network 
(internal or external) cannot rely on partners doing things in a 
time-scale  dictated by a server.

I will post a link to my work on that thread. But you are correct, it 
needs fixing. However it has been around a long time and it will need to 
be fixed in a way that does not break any existing applications.

Roger

Roger

Roger