Bug 43555

Summary:	Feature request: support for variant maps in dbus-send
Product:	dbus	Reporter:	Elly Jones <ellyjones+fd>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	John (J5) Palmieri <johnp>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	low	CC:	msniko14
Version:	1.5	Keywords:	patch
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Patch against dbus-1.4.12 to add this feature.

Description Elly Jones 2011-12-06 12:09:47 UTC

Created attachment 54159 [details] [review]
Patch against dbus-1.4.12 to add this feature.

dbus-send(1) does not support nested containers at all. There is a common idiom of having a{sv} as the last argument of dbus API functions to support later extensions, but dbus-send(1) cannot call these functions. Therefore, add special-case support for a{sv}, which can be done without extending the dbus-send(1) syntax in a backward-incompatible way.

Patch attached.

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2012-02-08 08:35:16 UTC

Comment on attachment 54159 [details] [review]
Patch against dbus-1.4.12 to add this feature.

Review of attachment 54159 [details] [review]:
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How does this interact with Bug #19807?

Could you please describe how to send an a{sv}, or indeed a{xy} in general, if you've worked out how? I wasn't aware that it was even possible...

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