Autopilot does not honor the object cache when creating the root introspection object

[Thomi Richards]

Currently, if a user defines a custom proxy class for the node at the root of the introspection tree, it does not get returned by the launch_* methods.

The reason for this is that, in _search.py, the _get_proxy_bases_from_introspection_xml does this:

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def _get_proxy_bases_from_introspection_xml(introspection_xml):
    bases = [ApplicationProxyObject]
---

and ApplicationProxyObject is defined (just a few lines further down) as:

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class ApplicationProxyObject(ap_dbus.DBusIntrospectionObject):
---

So, the root proxy object will never pick up any CPC's in the object registry. To fix this, let's make ApplicationProxyObject a simple mixin class:

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class ApplicationProxyObject(object):
    """A class that better supports query data from an application."""

    def __init__(self):
        self._process = None
---

and then use the existing methods defined in autopilot.introspection._object_registry to get the appropriate proxy class:

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def _get_proxy_bases_from_introspection_xml(introspection_xml):
    bases = [ call_to_get_proxy_class(...), ApplicationProxyObject]
---

I'm too lazy to figure out what the exact call should be, but I'm sure it exists in the _object_registry module. This will probably involve changing the _get_proxy_bases_from_introspection_xml function to take some additional parameters, or some refactoring to pass in the base class.

The test case for this should be:

Write a simple Qml app script, and define a custom proxy class for the root node. Assert that:

* When launching the app, we get an instance of the CPC, not a generated class.
* When calling the get_root_instance call on any other proxy object, we get an instance of the CPC, not a generated class.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:autopilot at revision 511, scheduled for release in autopilot, milestone 1.4

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopilot - 1.5.0+14.10.20140812-0ubuntu1

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autopilot (1.5.0+14.10.20140812-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Thomi Richards ]
  * Release of Autopilot. Bugfix for lp:1306330 & lp:1348399 (LP:
    #1306330, #1078732, #1348399)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:53:34 +0000