[virt-tools-list] Question about the Gsettings and dconf and Design document.

[Cole Robinson]

On 11/17/2015 11:40 AM, Avaneendra Alugupalli wrote:
> hi Cole
>  Thanks for the response.
>>
> 
>>The functions that add/remove/list the URIs in config.py are add_conn,
>> remove_conn, list_conn_uris respectively. They are called from engine.py
> 
> From the code in virt-manager.py main handler, I find that the 
> config object is getting created before the engine object?. Is that for the first
> time when I run the virt-manager app. config sees default values of connections/
> uris to none [] and then engine creates them. And even if the app is exited
> we still have non default values ("qemu:///sysmtem" and "lxc://") in the dconf?.
> perhaps not delete those values from dconf?.
> 

Sorry, I'm not really following what you are saying. Can you describe the
problem you are hitting, step by step, and exactly what you are trying to
determine?

Also, take a look at dconf-editor, it's a UI tool for exploring dconf values.
Might explain what you are seeing.

- Cole

> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com
> <mailto:crobinso at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/16/2015 02:17 PM, Avaneendra Alugupalli wrote:
>     > hi
>     >  I am trying to understand the code for virt-manager and found that during the
>     > config object create, gets the connections / uris using the Gsettings API. and
>     > these are the entries in dconf database.
>     >
>     > forchild inself._settings.list_children():
>     > childschema =self._root +"."+child
>     > self._settingsmap[child] =Gio.Settings.new(childschema)
>     >
>     >
>     > returns connections/uris as "qemu:///system" and "lxc:///". From the
>     >
>     > I can see that data
>     >
>     <https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/tree/master/data>/org.virt-manager.virt-manager.gschema.xml
>     > makes
>     > default entry for these fields. How ever am unable to track who is updating
>     > the connections/uris to "qemu:///system" and "lxc:///" strings.
> 
>     The functions that add/remove/list the URIs in config.py are add_conn,
>     remove_conn, list_conn_uris respectively. They are called from engine.py
> 
>     > Also is there any architecture/ design document to understand the code at very
>     > higher
>     > level?.
> 
>     No unfortunately :/
> 
>     - Cole
> 
>