From: Phil Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
To: Fred Sch??ttgen <bluez-devel@schaettgen.de>
Cc: bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] D-Bus interfaces
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:46:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040216144615.GA318@nexus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402090015.24318.bluez-devel@schaettgen.de>
on Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:15:24AM +0100, Fred Sch??ttgen wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2004 23:31, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > Do we need a special datatype for the BD_ADDR or is string the best?
>
> 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.
p.
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Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-08 18:35 [Bluez-devel] D-Bus support Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-08 18:51 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-08 19:09 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-08 21:07 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-08 22:04 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-08 22:33 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-08 21:28 ` [Bluez-devel] D-Bus interfaces Fredrik Noring
2004-02-08 21:54 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-08 22:15 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-08 22:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-08 22:50 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-08 23:19 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-08 23:51 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-09 0:38 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-09 7:22 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-09 10:06 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-09 10:22 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-09 10:38 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-09 10:46 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-09 11:03 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-09 11:53 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-09 13:01 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-09 13:23 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-09 15:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-09 16:05 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-09 16:30 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-09 17:04 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 10:03 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 13:32 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-11 14:05 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 16:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-11 22:00 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 22:29 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-11 22:33 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 12:32 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 13:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-11 14:35 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 17:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-11 22:25 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 22:42 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-11 22:57 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 23:14 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-11 23:29 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 23:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-11 23:41 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-11 23:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-08 23:15 ` Fred Schättgen
2004-02-16 14:46 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2004-02-16 15:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-16 15:41 ` Phil Blundell
2004-02-17 22:59 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-17 23:38 ` Philip Blundell
2004-02-17 23:44 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-17 23:49 ` Philip Blundell
2004-02-17 23:57 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-18 0:08 ` Philip Blundell
2004-02-18 0:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-18 0:29 ` Philip Blundell
2004-02-19 15:55 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-19 16:01 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-19 15:52 ` Fredrik Noring
2004-02-19 16:48 ` Phil Blundell
2004-02-20 4:04 ` Fredrik Noring
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