On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Chris Kühl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Patrick Ohly <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On So, 2012-01-15 at 12:09 +0100, Chris Kühl wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Patrick Ohly <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Mi, 2012-01-11 at 14:59 +0100, Chris Kühl wrote:
>>> >> This will very much be an issue with GIO GDBus as it uses the same
>>> >> mechanism. Looking that the souce of libdbus and gdbus leads me to
>>> >> believe using signals on a non-bus connection doesn't really make
>>> >> sense. I just use method calls in this case.
>>> >
>>> > Indeed, registering signal subscribers isn't very useful when there is
>>> > always exactly one recipient.
>>> >
>>>
>>> I've got SignalWatch activation working with one-to-one connections.
>>> Just have to forgo adding the match rule.
>>
>> Is that also going to be possible with GDBus GIO? If not, then we will
>> have a problem once code depends on signals and we want to switch to
>> GDBus GIO.
>>
>
> I've not gone and implemented it yet, but I'd say most definitely. I
> think it's as simple as not calling
> g_dbus_connection_signal_subscribe.
>

Actually it's not quite that easy. You'll have to set up a filter and
fire the callback.  But it's still straight forward.

> All messages sent from the interface provider are received by the
> interface consumer. The signal is simply a message of type
> G_DBUS_MESSAGE_TYPE_SIGNAL which is checked in the isMatch method. So
> things should work pretty easily.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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