Introspect Blocks

[Daniele E. Domenichelli]

Hello Puneet,

[Forwarding this to kde-telepathy mailing]

On 20/07/12 02:06, Puneet Goyal wrote:
> Can I use the QDBusConnectionPrivate class somehow??


It depends from where the org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager interface 
will be at the end.

We have 3 options:

1) Have in *ktp-common-internals*. This is the easier way to get it 
merged somewhere, but you cannot use the QDBusConnectionPrivate class, 
you must instead implement a registeObject method (and an unregister one 
too) similar to QDBusConnection::registerObject instead, and you have to 
call it every time you call that method

2) Try to merge it in *telepathy-qt*. The implementation is the same, so 
I'd forget about this at the moment, we can move it later if we realize 
that it is needed by others.

3) Try to merge it in *Qt5* and possibly in *Qt 4.8.next* since it 
shouldn't add any new method. That's for sure the best place to have it, 
in this way you get the ObjectManager for free in every dbus object 
(like for the ofD.Introspectable and ofD.Peer interfaces). The 
implementation is going to be easier, because you may use 
QDBusConnectionPrivate, but on the other side it's going to be harder, 
because you cannot test it with qt from your distribution but you need 
to build it from scratch, and because the code should be of a very good 
quality to be merged in Qt. Moreover understanding the internals of 
QtDBus is not an easy task. And finally the way to implement it is going 
to be completely different...


What do you (and the kde-telepathy guys) think?


Daniele