[Interest] Question about using QtDBus

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 28 August 2014 17:17:54 Rogers Nate wrote:
> I have a data process where I am trying to store my data so it can be
> updated/retrieved from different processes.  I am trying to get a QList
> of a custom object to be returned from the data object so it can be used
> by my CAN communication object.  I have striped down some code to give
> an example of what I am trying to do.  I have been trying to get this to
> work for awhile but I must be missing something and I am not fully
> understanding what needs to be done.  I am thinking it has something to
> do with my dbus type, I feel like the xml file should define it as a(ss)
> but it won't compile with that and gives no meaningful information as to
> why.  If I change it to ao it will compile but no data is available over
> in the CAN comm process and it prints an error saying it expected a(ss)
> before killing the process.  Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Hi Nate

I don't see any qDBusRegisterMetaType. You need to tell D-Bus how to marshall 
your returned type when you return it. Make sure you call that before the 
function returns -- better yet, in the constructor.

> #include <qt5/QtDBus/QtDBus>

Please don't include Qt headers like that. The correct way is <QtDBus/QtDBus>.

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