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Problem

Until now, the communication between our network model and its D-Bus interface worked only in one direction (from D-Bus to the model). And that was pretty limiting.

Solution

In #885 we introduce the usage of oneshot::channel() to enable bi-directional communication between the model and the D-Bus interface. It worked rather well, so it is time to extend this approach.

Some use cases that are covered:

  • Perform a complex validation in the model (considering the whole model) and return the result to the D-Bus interface.
  • Return the D-Bus path of a new connection (implemented in this PR).

But there is another interesting implication: the model is the single source of truth (no more cloned data in the interface). In the future, we are expected to listen to NetworkManager and update some parts of our model accordingly. Not having to replicate that information to D-Bus (except when new things add or disappear) makes things easier.

Note: org.opensuse.Agama1.Network.Device and org.opensuse.Agama1.Network.Devices are excluded by now.

Testing

  • Added a new unit test
  • Tested manually

To do

  • Reduce the boilerplate associated to the usage of channels.

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coverage: 74.991% (+0.03%) from 74.963%
when pulling 3eb41cd on improve-network-d-bus
into 5e882f8 on master.

impl Connections {
/// Creates a Connections interface object.
///
/// * `objects`: Objects paths registry.
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LGTM, just added some suggestions but only about documentation

@imobachgs imobachgs marked this pull request as ready for review December 27, 2023 12:46
Co-authored-by: Knut Alejandro Anderssen González <[email protected]>
@imobachgs imobachgs merged commit 3deeadc into master Dec 27, 2023
@imobachgs imobachgs deleted the improve-network-d-bus branch December 27, 2023 13:33
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Prepare for releasing Agama 8. It includes the following pull requests:

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