[libvirt] [PATCH 5/6] Introduce alternate way to encode/decode arrays in DBus messages

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 06:15:48PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 20.03.2014 13:28, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >Currently the DBus helper APIs require the values for an array
> >to be passed inline in the variadic argument list. This change
> >introduces support for passing arrays using a pointer to a plain
> >C array of the basic type. This is of particular benefit for
> >decoding messages when you don't know how many array elements
> >are being received.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> >---
> >  src/util/virdbus.c  | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >  tests/virdbustest.c |  93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> Nice, we have a test too!

Mostly because I learnt the hard way that it is damn near impossible
to get this DBus code right without a test suite for it :-)

Regards,
Daniel
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