Re: [Vala] DBus horror

[Kos <nikosverschore gmail com>]

Hey,

I'm back with more DBus problems. Now I want to receive an 'a{sv}' output. I
translated that into a HashTable<string,Value?>, but I get errors.
First I tried it the normal way, e.g. with return values. But it errors that
there is no signature "" on the interface
http://pastebin.org/65152 (example vala-file with comments and the errors)

After that I tried with the an out variable. (Thinking of the struct
solution...)
http://pastebin.org/65154 (example vala-file with comments and the errors)

Nikos

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Kos <nikosverschore gmail com> wrote:

> Thank you,
>
> That works. Even with the dynamic method.
> Is there a time window when the fixes will emerge in a vala release? (Just
> out of curiosity)
>
> @Jürg, sorry for the double mail. Forgot to send a copy to the mailinglist
>
>
> Nikos
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:45 +0100, Kos wrote:
> > > You can find the test-source here: http://pastebin.org/65108
> > > I compile it with valac --pkg dbus-glib-1 vlc_test3.vala -g
> >
> > Use the static variant but with an out parameter instead of a return
> > value as in the following lines:
> >
> > public abstract void GetStatus (out State state) throws DBus.Error;
> >
> >        // Get info
> >        org_freedesktop_MediaPlayer.State state;
> >        dbus.GetStatus (out state);
> >
> > It should also work with return values, however, there was a change in
> > how struct return values are processed a couple months back, and it's
> > possible that the D-Bus code still needs a few fixes there.
> >
> > Jürg