[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] virdbus: don't force users to pass int for bool values

[Eric Blake]

On 11/17/2014 05:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Use of an 'int' to represent a 'bool' value is confusing.  Just
> because dbus made the mistake of cementing their 4-byte wire
> format of dbus_bool_t into their API doesn't mean we have to
> repeat the mistake.  With a little bit of finesse, we can
> guarantee that we provide a large-enough value to the DBus
> code, while still copying only the relevant one-byte bool
> to the client code, and isolate the rest of our code base from
> the DBus stupidity.
> 
> [Have I ever mentioned that the assymetry between type promotions
> of values passed through var-args on setting, vs. no promotions
> when passing pointers through var-args for getting, makes life
> awkward, not just for DBus interactions, but also for printf vs.
> scanf?  Then again, using scanf is often the wrong thing to do...]
> 
> * src/util/virdbus.c (GET_NEXT_VAL): Add parameter.
> (virDBusMessageIterDecode): Adjust all clients.
> * src/util/virpolkit.c (virPolkitCheckAuth): Use nicer type.
> * tests/virdbustest.c (testMessageSimple, testMessageStruct):
> Test new behavior.
> 

> -# define GET_NEXT_VAL(dbustype, vargtype, fmt)                          \
> +# define GET_NEXT_VAL(dbustype, member, vargtype, fmt)                  \
>      do {                                                                \
>          dbustype *x;                                                    \
> +        DBusBasicValue v;                                               \

Blech. DBusBasicValue wasn't defined in the older dbus-types.h from
1.1.2 as shipped on RHEL 5, causing a compilation failure there.  I'm
working on a fix...

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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