Ryan Lortie wrote: > The type system, of course, is that of DBus. > > I love your feedback. Please give it all to me.
I took at a look at GVariant from the perspective of "could I make libsoup's XML-RPC (and future JSON) code use GVariant instead of GValue". (For more background, see the thread starting at http://www.mail-archive.com/gtk-devel-list@gnome.org/msg09241.html). But the answer to the question is no, because GVariant doesn't have a (strongly-typed) date/time type like XML-RPC does. (Yes, I could do something like decide that inside libsoup, the int64 type means time_t, but that's lame, and would interfere with using the XML-RPC int64 extension type that some services support, and it doesn't solve the general problem.) So, my feedback is, if the type system is explicitly just D-Bus and nothing else, shouldn't it be called "GDBusType" or something? (I'm not saying it's *bad* that it's D-Bus-specific, just that it should be more explicit about it.) (Alternate possibility: add a way to include type tags, so that callers and callees can agree that a particular "x" is to be treated as a time_t and not a generic int64. Eg, a signature of ":x" would mean a (string) type tag followed by an int64, but it would be distinct from "sx" or "(sx)".) -- Dan _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
