Crash in plasma shell due to bad connection manager

[Diane Trout]

Hi,

I was trying to develop a connection manager in python, and once had enough interfaces 
implemented for TelepathyQt to try reading contacts I was getting ktp-contactlist and 
plasmashell to crash.

It looks like TelepathyQt was crashing at at TelepathyQt/contact.cpp:1048 when it was parsing 
the mess I was returning for oft.Connection.Interface.ContactCapabilities/capabilities 

I suspect the plasma shell crash is because I had the ktp widget in the system tray. This is with 
the Debian builds of 15.04.3 [1] and TelepathyQt 0.9.6.1

For reference this is the function that returns the garbage that triggers the crash
https://github.com/detrout/telepathy-gitter/blob/51cba4dacefb7fd10e4d107045f30a5679bd0912/glitter/contacts.py#L140

Obviously I need to figure out how to properly construct the dbus structure (any hints would be 
appreciated). I was also wondering if causing plasmashell to crash because of my own bad code 
is something that should file a plasmashell bugreport for?

[1] the ktp builds are unreleased, though the packages are in alioth's git.

also I made some improvements to telepathy-python 
https://github.com/detrout/telepathy-python

I improved the python3 compatibility and adding a few more of the newer _generated interfaces 
to where I found the older related interfaces.

https://github.com/detrout/telepathy-python/commit/313269dbe612f6d5d16752e582f288550cb58525

Diane

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