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API changes in dbus-python-in-c
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:Author: Simon McVittie
:Contact: simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk
:Organization: `Collabora Ltd`_
:Date: 2006-09-26
.. _ Collabora Ltd: http://www.collabora.co.uk/
* Byte is a subtype of str rather than of int, which better matches
Python's conventions for dealing with byte streams. Its constructor
accepts either single-byte strings or integers in the range 0 to 255.
* In method parameters, method returns from proxy methods, etc.,
integers arrive as instances of dbus.Int32 etc., bytes arrive as
Byte, and so on, rather than everything being converted to an
appropriate built-in Python type. This means you can tell exactly
what arguments went over the bus, and their types.
* Variants arrive as method parameters, returns from proxy methods, etc.
as Variant objects. This is a bit of a big change, but makes things
completely unambiguous. To unwrap variants like the old Pyrex
implementation did, you can write::
while isinstance(myparam, dbus.Variant):
myparam = myparam.object
This should also work (and do nothing) under the Pyrex implementation.
* The D-Bus integer types (dbus.Int32, etc.) are properly range-checked.
* Variants are now immutable "value objects".
* Variants are somewhat more useful: they can be cast using int(),
str(), long(), float(), you can iterate over them with iter() if they
contain an iterable, you can compare them with ``==`` and ``!=``,
and you can hash them if the underlying object supports it.
* Array constructor takes arguments (iterable[, signature])
rather than (iterable[, type][, signature]); ditto Variant, Dict
* Proxy methods with multiple return values return a tuple rather than
a list.
* Calling a proxy method with reply ignored, or with async
handlers, returns None
* The Boolean, String, Double and Struct types are now aliases for the
built-in bool, unicode, float and tuple types. Their use is vaguely
deprecated.
* ConnectionError no longer exists (it was never raised)
* dbus_bindings is now called _dbus_bindings, and is considerably
different internally:
* connections are private at the libdbus level: shared connections
are only shared among Python code
* The MessageIter stuff is now done in C: there's a much simpler
Python API, ``Message.append(...)`` where positional arguments are
the things to be appended, and the keyword argument ``signature``
controls how objects are interpreted
* The signature-guessing algorithm used if there is no proper
signature is exposed as a static method,
``Message.guess_signature(*args)``
* Bus is a subclass of Connection rather than being a wrapper object
which has-a Connection
* Some relatively internal methods have been renamed starting with
an underscore - most Python code shouldn't need to use them, and
they expose the full complexity of Messages etc.
* The timeouts in _send_with_reply and in _send_with_reply_and_block
are in (possibly fractional) seconds, as is conventional in Python
* The specialized Message subclasses have names ending with Message
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