Sending boolean value using qdbus always yields true

[Christian Esken]

Am Donnerstag, 24. Dezember 2009 16:48:37 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Em Quinta-feira 24. Dezembro 2009, às 13.10.36, Christian Esken escreveu:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem with qdbus. No matter what I pass on the command line, I
> > always receive true. Details are on b.k.o. (Bug 201940), and Thiago says,
> >  it is not a Qt issue.
> >
> > I added a debug statement to KMix [1], and it shows the effect clearly
> > [2].
> >
> > Does anybody know what is going on here? This is for a long time (bug
> >  report from July 2009), and also for recent builds  (via the openSUSE
> >  build: KDE:Qt46 and KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop).
> 
> Run both apps (qdbus and kmix) with QDBUS_DEBUG=1.


Done.

The terminal with qdbus shows contents=("Front:0", false)
The terminal with kmix shows contents=("Front:0", true)


Below is an excerpt of the output.

 Christian


# qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixer0 setMute Front:0 false
[...]
    <method name="setMute">                                                                                                              
      <arg direction="in" type="s" name="deviceidx"/>                                                                                    
      <arg direction="in" type="b" name="on"/>                                                                                           
    </method>                                                                                                                            
[...]
QThread(ptr=0x60f500) sending message (blocking): 
QDBusMessage(type=MethodCall, service="org.freedesktop.DBus", 
path="/org/freedesktop/DBus", interface="org.freedesktop.DBus", 
member="GetNameOwner", signature="", contents=("org.freedesktop.DBus") )
QThread(ptr=0x60f500) got message reply (blocking): 
QDBusMessage(type=MethodReturn, service="org.freedesktop.DBus", signature="s", 
contents=("org.freedesktop.DBus") )
Adding rule: 
type='signal',sender='org.freedesktop.DBus',interface='org.freedesktop.DBus',member='NameOwnerChanged',arg0='org.kde.kmix'
QThread(ptr=0x60f500) sending message (blocking): 
QDBusMessage(type=MethodCall, service="org.kde.kmix", path="/Mixer0", 
interface="", member="setMute", signature="", contents=("Front:0", false) )
QThread(ptr=0x60f500) got message reply (blocking): 
QDBusMessage(type=MethodReturn, service=":1.92", signature="", contents=() )


# kmix --nofork
[...]
    <method name="setMute">                                                                                                              
      <arg direction="in" type="s" name="deviceidx"/>                                                                                    
      <arg direction="in" type="b" name="on"/>                                                                                           
    </method>                                                                                                                            
[...]
Thread(ptr=0x610ab0) got message: QDBusMessage(type=MethodCall, 
service=":1.111", path="/Mixer0", interface="", member="setMute", 
signature="sb", contents=("Front:0", true) )
Mixer::setMute(): "Front:0"  =  true
QThread(ptr=0x610ab0) Automatically sending reply: ()
QThread(ptr=0x610ab0) sending message (no reply): 
QDBusMessage(type=MethodReturn, service="", signature="", contents=() )
QThread(ptr=0x610ab0) got message: QDBusMessage(type=Signal, 
service="org.freedesktop.DBus", path="/org/freedesktop/DBus", 
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus", member="NameOwnerChanged", signature="sss", 
contents=(":1.111", ":1.111", "") )