Are D-Bus signals received by the emitting app?

David Jarvie lists at astrojar.org.uk
Sat Sep 29 12:38:39 BST 2007


On Saturday 29 September 2007 12:18:13 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> David Jarvie wrote:
> >I'm attempting to write a unit test for some changes to the
> > KSystemTimeZones class, but when the unit test emits a D-Bus signal, it
> > is not picked up by the KSystemTimeZones instance which is instanciated
> > within the unit test. When the same signal is emitted by ktimezoned, it
> > is picked up by KSystemTimeZones in a different app. Can a D-Bus signal
> > be received by the same app which emitted it? If not, is there any way
> > round this so that the unit test instance can be made to think it's
> > receiving the signal?
>
> They are received if there's something listening for it.
>
> Signal reception requires the event loop.

How can an event loop be implemented in a unit test based on 
QTEST_KDEMAIN_CORE?

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David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
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