documenting object associations

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, at 05:25, Brad Bishop wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 09:17:55AM +1030, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
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>>On Sat, 30 Oct 2021, at 05:04, Brad Bishop wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I recently submitted a patch[1] that tries to establish a mechanism for
>>> documenting our DBus object associations[2].
>>>
>>> The patch has been merged - I am sending this simply to highlight the
>>> change and to encourage everyone to document your past, present and
>>> future associations using this mechanism.  In case you missed the review
>>> feel free to reply here with suggestions for improvements.
>>
>>Seems unfortunate that there's duplication :/ Is there a way to resolve it?
>
> Right, I assume you mean that name and reverse_name are sort of 
> duplicated in both interfaces.  We could drop the reverse_names - it 
> probably isn't useful to know the reverse traversal association in the 
> context of the origin interface?  Now that you have me thinking about it 
> reverse_name is kind of an artifact of how associations are implemented.

Yeah, all of that :)