On Dec 17, 2013, at 10:50 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: >But if I got it right, Barry needed an asynchronous method *implementation*, >on the server side.
Correct. >Actually the tutorial you linked if mentions that it's possible, however it >doesn't document it: > >http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html#asynchronous-method-implementations I really should submit a patch for that documentation, at least illustrating the techniques that I've used. http://tinyurl.com/l5j2d6e The original reason to switch to an asynchronous service-side implementation was so that control could be passed back to the main loop, otherwise the system-image service -- which also acts as a client of ubuntu-download-manager -- couldn't react to signals coming from u-d-m. With a synchronous ApplyUpdate() method, everything would just deadlock. -Barry -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
