Re: [dbus-cplusplus-devel] Proposal: Give objects through dbus-c++

[Andreas V. <li...@br...>]

Am Tue, 2 Sep 2008 00:20:15 +0200 schrieb Andreas Volz:

> Am Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:16:13 +0200 schrieb P. Durante:
> 
> Hello Paolo,
> 
> currently I work on a example implementation that explains all my
> ideas. I hope tomorrow it's finished and ready to show. Then we talk
> again about it.

Here is the result of my proposal. I modified the dbusxx-xml2cpp tool
to generate the object binding. See here:

http://gitorious.org/projects/dbus-cplusplus/repos/mainline/blobs/master/tools%2Fxml2cpp.cpp

As result it parses the object="MyObject" code in the XML and generates
code based on it. See here a prototype of my communication library:

http://www.tux-style.de/tmp/dbus-cplusplus/oicf-0.1.tar.gz

and here the dbus-c++ code generated with it:

http://www.tux-style.de/tmp/dbus-cplusplus/oicf-0.1_bin.tar.gz

It seems to work for signals and methods, but it's not extreme tested
for in and out values. I need to write more tests for it.

It works well and is 100% compatible to other dbus bindings. You even
don't need to do it in dbus-c++ if you fear of more object creations
while communications. Simply don't use the "object" tag.

What do you think?

I would like to see it integrated into the official repo.

BTW: As I noticed the tabs aren't perfect. In both source code and
generated code. But I think that's a minor problem.

BTW2: Maybe you noticed that I added some more comments for
dbusxx-xml2cpp while understanding it. So the next new person will
faster understand it.

regards
Andreas