Re: [Vala] Getting results from an async callback

[Stephen Smally <eco stefi fastwebnet it>]

Well, libappstore is cross distro, because it uses packagekit. The app 
database is built using app-install, and if is not present using the 
packagekit datas (there is a build_fallback function, currently works 
but doesn't give good results).

Il 28/07/2012 13:37, Matthias Klumpp ha scritto:
> The number of people working on similar stuff with similar tools is
> really, really small! :D I know Stephen from a bug report against
> PackageKit and you from the PackageKit ML :-)
> For Listaller, we need sync calls because PackageKit uses sync calls
> internally and Listaller is plugged into PackageKit to perform
> software-management tasks as root. So you'll find some unusual ways to
> call PackageKit for unusual tasks there. (but most conceps can be
> easily applied to other projects, I'm also thinking if a async API
> would make sense for frontend developers. (LI frontends are integrated
> into PK frontends and Software-Centers (usually only a few new lines
> of code are needed to support non-root installations if PK is already
> used) - for GNOME-PackageKit having async API would be good...)
> Having a "libappstore" is imho a very good idea, I also thought of
> writing that lib later (I am busy with PackageKit, AppStream and the
> Ubuntu Software Center at time) - Are you doing that lib
> cross-distributional? (Very important for me ^^)
> @list: Sorry for the OT
> Cheers,
>     Matthias
>
> 2012/7/27 tomw <tomw ubilix com>:
> > On Fr, 2012-07-27 at 17:34 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > You recieve a AsyncResult in that callback. For examples how to use
> > > PackageKit in Vala, see my Listaller[1] project or - for a
> > > less-complex example (Listaller uses some internal PK APIs) - just
> > > checkout this snipped which addresses your question:
> > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lubuntu-software-center-team/light-software-center/trunk/view/head:/src/Backend/AppsManager.vala#L90
> > > (from Light Software Center)
> > > Regards,
> > >     Matthias
> >
> > Thanks, I'm using Listaller 0.5.5 as a reference quite a lot. However,
> > for that part you are using mainly the synchronous calls.
> > Passing user data in a closure will do the trick.
> >
> > --
> > tomw <tomw ubilix com>
> _______________________________________________
> vala-list mailing list
> vala-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list