Re: [Dbus-cxx-users] [Dbus-cxx-devel] dbus-cxx 0.6.0 released

[Oliver K. <oli...@se...>]

May I ask you for what reasons yout  throw exceptions as smart-pointers?

thx and best regards,
Oliver

Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. schrieb:
> dbus-cxx is a C++ wrapper for the dbus library
> http://dbus-cxx.sourceforge.net
>
> ===== 0.6.0 =====
>
> This release is primarily a bug fix release. However, this resulted in
> significant changes to the error handling so I have bumped the minor
> release number.
>
> The dbus error wrapper was modified to provide smart pointers for all error
> objects. The reference counting of the smart pointers will prevent an issue
> that resulted in double freeing dbus errors in the previous error
> implementation.
>
> Errors thrown are now smart pointer instances of error objects and can be
> accessed as Error::pointer. This keeps the syntax for errors inline with the
> other smart pointers used throughout dbus-cxx.
>
> This also means that simple boolean tests such as the following are no longer
> valid:
>   Error error;
>   if (error) ...
>
> This would test the smart pointer rather than test for the error. To test
> whether an error is set you would need to test the is_set() method of
> the error class as in the following:
>   Error::pointer error;
>   if (error->is_set()) ...
>
> Thanks to Tyler Conant for hunting down the double free Error class issue.
>
> Fixed logic error in CallMessage::expects_reply()
>
> Thanks to Julien Bonjean for catching this one
>
>
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