如何用dbus-glib传递复杂的数据结构？hacker的误解。

近日我订阅的dbus邮件中老是看到有人有这样的疑问：如何用dbus-glib传递复杂的数据结构？

dbus的hacker给出的解决方法就是去用dbus_g_type_get_struct*对数据结构进行层次封装！

这是很低级的!,原因有2个：

1 dbus对数据结构的封装非常麻烦：首先把数据结构转为XML定义，然后再利用dbus_g_type_get_struct

对数据结构进行容器的嵌套，一层一层的，就像老婆婆的裹脚布一样，啰嗦。对于C/S架构，这边封装，那边还要解封装，一样麻烦。

2 不利于数据结构的变化，对于C/S结构，当初期定义的数据结构考虑不周时，后期需要修改，麻烦死了，首先修改XML，然后把封装过程再搞一遍，解封装再搞一遍，有一个地方搞错了，这个的C/S就不通了！

我以前也碰到类似的烦恼，经过一段时间的摸索，发现用GArray可以完全避开dbus繁杂的数据封装过程，直接可以在D-Bus C/S之间传递复杂的数据结构，效率还很高，并且在数据结构变化时，XML根本不用修改！很方便。

具体过程请参考我前面写的一片文章：

如何高效率的使用DBUS作client/server架构 ：

 http://blog.csdn.net/cuijpus/archive/2007/12/07/1922658.aspx

希望对用D-BUS的网友有些帮助。

 

原文如下：

Message: 2
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:11:18 +0100
From: Rob Taylor <rob.taylor@codethink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: send a very complex stuct by dbus with dbus-glib
To: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: lista dbus <dbus@lists.freedesktop.org>
Message-ID: <480311A6.5010909@codethink.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:20 AM, ivan fernandez calvo
> <ivan.fernandez@sacnet.es> wrote:
>> Is a transcription problem the correct type is G_TYPE_UINT , The
>>  objetive of the the code was only show What i want to do and in the
>>  process i make a mistake.
>>
>> ?
>>   <method name="methodExample">
>>   <arg type="(ua(bb))" name="stcElement" direction="in" />
>>   </method>
>>
>
> Hi, looking at the current code (it's been a while), it looks like
you
> need to use one of the dbus_g_type_get_struct* functions when sending
> DBus structures.

Yeah, you need to use the specialized gtype system:
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-Specializable-GType-System.html

Rob

 

 

cuijpus: 4.16号又看到有人想用GValue做容器，这也也是复杂的，而且他也没有能走下去。

Message: 2
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:27:07 +0200
From: ivan fernandez calvo <ivan.fernandez@sacnet.es>
Subject: Re: send a very complex stuct by dbus with dbus-glib
To: lista dbus <dbus@lists.freedesktop.org>
Message-ID: <1207560427.5831.21.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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this is a reduced version of the problem that i want resolved put an
array of structs into a struct.

<method name="methodExample">
  <arg type="(ua(bb))" name="stcElement" direction="in" />
</method>

GValueArray* IN_stcElement= g_value_array_new(2);
?
// boolean value
GValue *pbData = g_try_new0(GValue,1);
??g_value_init (??pbData,G_TYPE_BOOLEAN);
?g_value_set_boolean (?pbData,TRUE);

//array of struct
?GPtrArray *pArrayValues = g_ptr_array_new();
?GValueArray *pStructItem= g_value_array_new(2);
GValue *pbValue1 = g_try_new0(GValue,1);
GValue *pbValue2 = g_try_new0(GValue,1);
??g_value_init (?pbValue1,G_TYPE_BOOLEAN);
??g_value_init (?pbValue2,G_TYPE_BOOLEAN);
??g_value_set_boolean (??pbValue1,TRUE);
??g_value_set_boolean (??pbValue2,TRUE);
??g_value_array_append (?pStructItem,???pbValue1);
??g_value_array_append (?pStructItem,???pbValue2);
?g_ptr_array_add(?pArrayValues,?pStructItem);

//Gvalue container for ??a GPtrArray
?GValue *pContainer = g_try_new0(GValue,1);
?//?G_TYPE_POINTER or G_TYPE_VALUE or G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY
g_value_init (?pContainer,G_TYPE_POINTER);
g_value_set_boxed (?pContainer,?pArrayValues);

??g_value_array_append (?IN_stcElement,?pbData);
??g_value_array_append (?IN_stcElement,??pArrayValues);

i think that the problem is to select the correct GValue container I do
not know how is it.


On s?b, 2008-04-05 at 11:47 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:31 AM, ivan fernandez calvo
> <ivan.fernandez@sacnet.es> wrote:
> > I am trying to send a messge with this struct
> >                 <method name="cambioElemento">
> >                         <!--
> >                                          uint32 nData; id del data
> >                                          string sElemento; nombre
del elemento
>
> Hi, do you think you might be able to reduce this to a smaller test
case?
--
Un Saludo
Ivan Fernandez Calvo