Re: DBus Properties 0.7.0 Device question

["Tambet Ingo" <tambet gmail com>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 22:39, Simon Schampijer <simon schampijer de> wrote:
> Philip Culver wrote:
>>
>> Some addtional information.
>>
>> If I execute:
>>
>> dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
>> --print-reply /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_13_02_06_6d_ee
>> org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get
>> string:'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Wireless'
>> string:'HwAddress'
>>
>> I get the proper value with a Get call.  If I execute the GetAll method
>> I always get the generic the Device properties.
>
> That is an interesting one. I actually saw the same problem with using the
> dbus python interface when doing an GetAll on a wired device.

It's a bug in dbus-glib. It never even looks at the DBus interface (it
only needs to be a string) which is passed to GetAll() method:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-glib/tree/dbus/dbus-gobject.c#n1442

Tambet