Re: [Vala] DBus bindings questions

[lukpank o2 pl (Łukasz Pankowski)]

Alexey Morozov <morozov_ml ngs ru> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I've just started to play with Vala and its DBus bindings, created a sample
> service and found that service methods names are mangled when exported to DBus.
> For example a method named in Vala sources as get_fan_speed(....) becomes
> GetFanSpeed(....), set_feature(....) becomes SetFeature(....) and so on.
>
> Since I'm re-implementing an existing service I would like to preserve existing
> service methods signatures. Is it possible to do this w/ current Vala DBus
> bindings?

valac has an option for this:
  --disable-dbus-transformation      Disable transformation of D-Bus member names

> I also would like to point on a minor documentation deficiency. Arguments and
> return values of DBus-exported methods in Vala should have DBus-compatible
> types. Vala DBus bindings don't perform any implicit type conversions (e.g.
> ushort <-> uint16 or float <-> double). It seems this info is missing in the
> corresponding tutorial, and violation of this rule leads to obscure DBus service
> failures.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Alexey Morozov