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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:42:51PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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...

Its just a dumb union, so we can either provide the definition ourselves,
or just define our of  virDBusValue union and ignore DBusBasicValue

Regards,
Daniel
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