[Vala] DBus signals and non-static methods

[Hannes Matuschek <hmatuschek googlemail com>]

It looks like there is a problem connecting non-static methods to DBus
signals.

The attached code compiles well but produce critical warnings on DBus
events. The static handler works well, but the instance-method-handler
produce following warning:

> ** (process:15681): CRITICAL **: test_method_handler: assertion `IS_TEST (self)' failed

The instance-method-handler has following signature (in C):
> static void test_method_handler (Test* self, DBusGProxy* sender, const char* id);
But will be called as test_method_handler(DBusGProxy* sender, const
char* id, Test* self)

I have no idea of dbus but in my opinion there is a function missing in
the dbus-glib. dbus-glib only provides the function
"dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal()" which simply calls
"g_signal_connect_closure_by_id()".

In my opinion DBusGProxy also needs
"dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal_object()" to connect to non-static-methods
of objects.

Any ideas?!?

using GLib;


class Test: Object
{   
    private DBus.Connection     conn;        
    private dynamic DBus.Object manager;         
    

    public static void static_handler(dynamic DBus.Object sender, string id){
        message("static-handler: %s", id);
    }

    public void method_handler(dynamic DBus.Object sender, string id){
        message("method-handler: %s", id);
    }


    construct{
        conn    = DBus.Bus.get(DBus.BusType.SYSTEM);
        manager = conn.get_object("org.freedesktop.Hal",
                                  "/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager",
                                  "org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager");

        manager.DeviceAdded += static_handler;
        manager.DeviceAdded += method_handler;
    }

 
    public static int main(string[] args)
    {
        MainLoop            loop  = new MainLoop(null, false);
        var                 my_obj = new Test(); 

        loop.run();

        return 0;
    }
}

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