Parsing QVariantMapMap from Connection::settings()

[Lamarque V. Souza]

Em Thursday 19 April 2012, Christophe Oosterlynck escreveu:
> Hi,

	Hi,
 
> the QtNetworkManager seems like a nice Qt wrapper around the
> NetworkManager DBUS interface. One of the things I want to do, is
> configuring a wired ipv4 connection. It seems that this is not nicely
> wrapped yet. I can read out most of the settings using IPv4Config but
> it is read only.
> 
> To actually configure the ipv4 settings, I would have to use the
> Connection::settings()/update() methods. These methods work with
> QVariants that still need some manual parsing. I guess I would need to
> do something similar like in the NetworkManagement repository
> (networkmanagement/backends/NetworkManager/settings/ipv4dbus).
> 
> Are there any plans to provide these settings using a nicer interface
> using QString, QHostAddress etc. instead of using QVariant? Or is
> including networkmanager headers directly into my project and parsing
> the map myself the only option?

	DBus and QtDBus mostly use variant/QVariant types, so anything using 
dbus should deal with them. Unfortunately I have not had time to work on 
QtNetworkManager/QtModemManager. For now the options are parsing the settings 
yourself (like Plasma NM does) or porting ipv4dbus to QtNetworkManager.

-- 
Lamarque V. Souza
KDE's Network Management maintainer
http://planetkde.org/pt-br
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