Re: [Bluez-devel] D-Bus interfaces

Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-16T15:36:15Z

Hi Phil,

> > I can only speak from my experience with dcop, but I would try to use standard
> > types whereever it's possible. In case that there exists a d-bus counterpart
> > to the dcop command line utility (dbus-send maybe?), it would make the bluez
> > interface more accessible for scripts.
>
> Yes, agreed. In my experiments with D-BUS and BlueZ so far, I've been
> using a simple byte array for the address. Encoding it as an ASCII
> string would be another possibility, but this would generally make the
> marshalling/unmarshalling process more expensive, and doesn't really
> gain you anything.

btw I tried to integrate the D-Bus patch for the PIN-Helper, but got
compilation errors with the libraries from Debian Sid. Has anyone used
this patch on Debian Sid?

Regards

Marcel

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