[Interest] Question about using QtDBus

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 04 September 2014 12:40:16 Rogers Nate wrote:
> On 09/03/2014 01:34 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 September 2014 17:16:47 Rogers Nate wrote:
> >>         <annotation name="org.qtproject.QtDBus.QtTypeName.Out0"
> >> 
> >> value="QList<ServiceErrorLogData>"/>
> > 
> > Not valid XML. The < needs to be < and the > needs to be >
> 
> Ha, that was it, thanks!  One last question on how to process the value,
> I noticed some people use waitForFinished().  Is that required or is it
> safest to use that?  I found that the two functions below produce the
> same output, granted this is a very simple example.  Should I be using
> waitForFinished()?

It's automatic if you try to access the data.

> void CanData::generateTestData()
> {
>     QDBusPendingReply<QList<ServiceErrorLogData> > logData =
> m_ServiceData->serviceErrorLog();
>     logData.waitForFinished();
>     if (logData.isError())
>     {
>         qDebug() << logData.error();
>     }
> 
>     foreach(ServiceErrorLogData data, logData.value() )

You probably didn't get an error and value() did wait for the data to arrive 
before returning it.

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  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center