[Decibel] DBus xml troubles

[Andre Magalhaes]

Just to update you guys. I and Tobias are working on telepathy-qt and
the initial code can be found in tapioca repo in the module
telepathy-qt. There is still a lot to be done before it's fully
usable. But there is already some code there to start testing. We
decided to go the following route:

- telepathy-qt will be a library that maps the telepathy spec
directly. So all methods, interfaces, ... defined in the spec will be
available on telepathy-qt.
- On top of telepathy-qt we are going to build tapioca-qt, a
high-level api to make it easy to write telepathy based applications.

We now need some help to finish telepathy-qt and define the interfaces
on tapioca-qt. So feel free to join us at #tapioca-voip on freenode.

BR
Andrunko

On 9/1/06, Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at basyskom.de> wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> I promised to keep you guys here more informed... so this is what I did this
> week:
>
> I tried to start on Qt4 bindings to telepathy. This task is somewhat more
> involved than I had originally anticipated:-)
>
> The good news is that oggis_ at #telepathy is already working on similar
> bindings. So far we did not find a time where both of us were available to
> stick our heads together. He says he did not get much done yet, so I decided
> to get started myself, hoping that we can pool our work later.
>
> The first surprise to me was that there is no offical set of XML files
> describing the telepathy DBus interfaces. I was told at #telepathy that the
> spec itself is extracted from the python docstrings of an implementation of
> the specification and was asked to write up my own set of XML files, using
> those generated for the glib API of telepathy as a base. Those do not yet
> contain the newest features described in the spec, but it is rumored that
> there are some addons that did not make it into the spec itself yet. I
> decided to just use the libtelepathy stuff for now..
>
> So I got some XML files and added annotations for the complex datatypes used
> (like "a(susv)" in the ConnectionManager). Those annotations map a DBus
> datatype to a Qt class that is meant to handle it and is required by
> dbusxml2cpp.
>
> This does indeed produce some code, but unfortunately only for the first
> annotated member of the object processed:-( I'm currently trying to find out
> whether it is me doing something wrong again or a bug in dbusxml2cpp...
>
> Are there any DBus gurus around that happen to know how to work around this
> problem?
>
> I think I'll write a DBus Qt4 bindings howto once I got the first cset of
> bindings classes up and running! So far I have not found any documentation on
> how to do this.
>
> Best Regards,
>
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>
> Tobias Hunger
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