Post Office uses URL Dispatcher DBus interface which isn't stable

Where are the go bindings for liburl-dispatcher? We're trying to remove code that uses a glib mainloop from the go app, not add to it.

On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 09:53 +0000, John Lenton wrote:

> Where are the go bindings for liburl-dispatcher? We're trying to remove
> code that uses a glib mainloop from the go app, not add to it.

There aren't any Go bindings, but that doesn't mean you should use an
unstable API. The only reason you'd need a GLib mainloop is for the
callback. If you leave out the callback on the send you don't need a
mainloop for anything.

No, that's not true. Neither url_dispatch_send nor url_dispatch_send_restricted work unless you have a mainloop running. I've tested it with

#include <url-dispatcher.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  const gchar* urls[2] = {"settings:///system/system-update", NULL};
  gchar** appids = url_dispatch_url_appid(urls);
  puts(appids[0]);
  url_dispatch_send(urls[0], NULL, NULL);

  g_main_loop_run(g_main_loop_new(NULL, FALSE));
  return 0;
}

and if you comment out the main loop, the dispatch doesn't run. This might be abug however.

That's because when you comment out the mainloop the process exits before the dbus message can be sent. If you replace it with a "sleep(100)" it should work (for some reason I can't get it to compile).

This bug was fixed in the package url-dispatcher - 0.1+14.10.20140819.1-0ubuntu1

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url-dispatcher (0.1+14.10.20140819.1-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Ted Gould ]
  * Ensure send works even without a mainloop (LP: #1356077)
  * Test replacing a timestamp
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:01:10 +0000