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Random notes on development of the server

Generation of DBus proxies

Use qdbusxml2cpp to generate preliminary proxy code and adjust is as needed. Example below:

  1. Start osmscout-server

  2. Pull XML description of the interface of interest and keep only node of interest:

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.osm.scout.server1 /org/osm/scout/server1/settings org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect > i.xml
emacs i.xml
  1. Generate proxy class:
qdbusxml2cpp -c AppSettings -p appsettings i.xml

Few notes regarding generated proxy.

It is missing notification signals for properties. So, signals have to be connected manually.

Methods tend to return QDBusPendingReply as a result of async call. QML is not aware of what to do with this type. So, all calls and return values have to be transferred to sync versions.

When method is using QDBusVariant as an argument, automatically generated code has to be adjusted. Example of working code:

    inline void setValue(const QString &key, const QVariant &value)
    {
        QDBusVariant v(value);
        QList<QVariant> argumentList;
        argumentList << key << QVariant::fromValue(v);
        asyncCallWithArgumentList(QStringLiteral("setValue"), argumentList);
    }