source: trunk/src/dbus/qdbuspendingreply.cpp@ 603

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#include "qdbuspendingreply.h"
#include "qdbuspendingcall_p.h"
#include "qdbusmetatype.h"

/*!
    \class QDBusPendingReply
    \inmodule QtDBus
    \since 4.5

    \brief The QDBusPendingReply class contains the reply to an asynchronous method call

    The QDBusPendingReply is a template class with up to 8 template
    parameters. Those parameters are the types that will be used to
    extract the contents of the reply's data.

    This class is similar in functionality to QDBusReply, but with two
    important differences:

    \list
      \o QDBusReply accepts exactly one return type, whereas
         QDBusPendingReply can have from 1 to 8 types
      \o QDBusReply only works on already completed replies, whereas
         QDBusPendingReply allows one to wait for replies from pending
         calls
    \endlist

    Where with QDBusReply you would write:

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/src_qdbus_qdbusreply.cpp 0

    with QDBusPendingReply, the equivalent code (including the blocking
    wait for the reply) would be:

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/src.qdbus.qdbuspendingreply.cpp 0

    For method calls that have more than one output argument, with
    QDBusReply, you would write:

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/src_qdbus_qdbusreply.cpp 1

    whereas with QDBusPendingReply, all of the output arguments should
    be template parameters:

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/src.qdbus.qdbuspendingreply.cpp 2

    QDBusPendingReply objects can be associated with
    QDBusPendingCallWatcher objects, which emit signals when the reply