Re: [Bluez-devel] D-Bus interfaces

Phil Blundell
2004-02-19T16:48:33Z

on Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Fredrik Noring wrote:
> Marshalling of text addresses is probably negligible in a DBus context.
> It can potentially make the interface more accessible to text based
> tools such as Perl as configurarions, user input etc. are based on text
> addresses.

Hi Fredrik

I don't think this is really an issue: text-based tools are probably
going to be using dbus-send, which can take care of converting to
binary representation from some convenient textual format. Or, for
languages which have their own D-BUS bindings, it would be handled at
that level. So we may as well use the D-BUS type system, rather than
manually converting everything to and from text strings.

p.

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