Re: default value for autoconnect

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 14:31 +0200, Marcin Klekot wrote:
> The NM spec on
> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/settings-spec-08.html
> says that the default value for autoconnect in the connection setting is
> FALSE. But testing it with dbus-monitor --system it looks like TRUE is
> the default value.
> 
> If I change some connection settings with nm-applet (or my own
> Application) and disable the autoconnect checkbox the resulting
> "Updated" signal from NM looks as follows:
>  dict entry(
>          string "connection"
>          array [
>             dict entry(
>                string "uuid"
>                variant                   string
> "600d780d-d2ff-4221-b6ed-7f67f5ee24af"
>             )
>             dict entry(
>                string "autoconnect"
>                variant                   boolean false
>             )
>             dict entry(
>                string "id"
>                variant                   string "foo"
>             )
>             dict entry(
>                string "type"
>                variant                   string "802-11-wireless"
>             )
>          ]
>       )
> 
> But if I enable the autoconnect checkbox in nm-applet the resulting
> "Updated" signal does not contain the "autoconnect" entry:
> 
> dict entry(
>          string "connection"
>          array [
>             dict entry(
>                string "uuid"
>                variant                   string
> "600d780d-d2ff-4221-b6ed-7f67f5ee24af"
>             )
>             dict entry(
>                string "id"
>                variant                   string "foo"
>             )
>             dict entry(
>                string "type"
>                variant                   string "802-11-wireless"
>             )
>          ]
>       )
> So my question is, is that a mistake in the NM spec and "TRUE" is the
> default value for autoconnect and for that reason NM skips that entry,
> or did i misunderstood something? I'm using NM Ver. 0.8 on ubuntu 9.10.

You are correct; the default should be TRUE.  This was due to an error
in the spec generator, now fixed and pushed to git and the website.

Thanks!
Dan