From fd2e832657a38d4dba9b86ce190f7736a837d53d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@nokia.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:40:51 +0100
Subject: Make qdbus show all types, even those that it doesn't know about

---
 src/dbus/qdbusmetaobject.cpp | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 tools/qdbus/qdbus/qdbus.cpp  | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/dbus/qdbusmetaobject.cpp b/src/dbus/qdbusmetaobject.cpp
index 5fe0589..6683505 100644
--- a/src/dbus/qdbusmetaobject.cpp
+++ b/src/dbus/qdbusmetaobject.cpp
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ QDBusMetaObjectGenerator::QDBusMetaObjectGenerator(const QString &interfaceName,
     }
 }
 
+Q_DBUS_EXPORT bool qt_dbus_metaobject_skip_annotations = false;
+
 QDBusMetaObjectGenerator::Type
 QDBusMetaObjectGenerator::findType(const QByteArray &signature,
                                    const QDBusIntrospection::Annotations &annotations,
@@ -178,7 +180,7 @@ QDBusMetaObjectGenerator::findType(const QByteArray &signature,
     result.id = QVariant::Invalid;
 
     int type = QDBusMetaType::signatureToType(signature);
-    if (type == QVariant::Invalid) {
+    if (type == QVariant::Invalid && !qt_dbus_metaobject_skip_annotations) {
         // it's not a type normally handled by our meta type system
         // it must contain an annotation
         QString annotationName = QString::fromLatin1("com.trolltech.QtDBus.QtTypeName");
@@ -201,6 +203,20 @@ QDBusMetaObjectGenerator::findType(const QByteArray &signature,
             return result;      // unknown type is invalid too
 
         result.name = typeName;
+    } else if (type == QVariant::Invalid) {
+        // this case is used only by the qdbus command-line tool
+        // invalid, let's create an impossible type that contains the signature
+
+        if (signature == "av") {
+            result.name = "QVariantList";
+            type = QVariant::List;
+        } else if (signature == "a{sv}") {
+            result.name = "QVariantMap";
+            type = QVariant::Map;
+        } else {
+            result.name = "QDBusRawType::" + signature;
+            type = -1;
+        }
     } else {
         result.name = QVariant::typeToName( QVariant::Type(type) );
     }
diff --git a/tools/qdbus/qdbus/qdbus.cpp b/tools/qdbus/qdbus/qdbus.cpp
index 6ec8224..4e5cf9a 100644
--- a/tools/qdbus/qdbus/qdbus.cpp
+++ b/tools/qdbus/qdbus/qdbus.cpp
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
 #include <QtDBus/QtDBus>
 #include <private/qdbusutil_p.h>
 
+Q_DBUS_EXPORT extern bool qt_dbus_metaobject_skip_annotations;
+
 static QDBusConnection connection(QLatin1String(""));
 static bool printArgumentsLiterally = false;
 
@@ -99,7 +101,7 @@ static void printArg(const QVariant &v)
         else if (arg.currentSignature() == QLatin1String("a{sv}"))
             printArg(qdbus_cast<QVariantMap>(arg));
         else
-            printf("qdbus: I don't know how to display an argument of type '%s'\n",
+            printf("qdbus: I don't know how to display an argument of type '%s', run with --literal.\n",
                    qPrintable(arg.currentSignature()));
     } else {
         printf("%s\n", qPrintable(v.toString()));
@@ -311,7 +313,11 @@ static int placeCall(const QString &service, const QString &path, const QString
                 int id = QVariant::nameToType(types.at(i));
                 if (id == QVariant::UserType)
                     id = QMetaType::type(types.at(i));
-                Q_ASSERT(id);
+                if (!id) {
+                    fprintf(stderr, "Cannot call method '%s' because type '%s' is unknown to this tool\n",
+                            qPrintable(member), types.at(i).constData());
+                    return 1;
+                }
 
                 QVariant p;
                 QString argument;
@@ -435,6 +441,7 @@ static void printAllServices(QDBusConnectionInterface *bus)
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
+    qt_dbus_metaobject_skip_annotations = true;
     QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);
     QStringList args = app.arguments();
     args.takeFirst();
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