I'm trying to write a script that inserts text into a document being edited from Kate with one keystroke.

It seems that instead of integers, the cursor location is passed as a QPoint data type. qdbus doesn't know what to do with it when it's returned by a function such as...

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qdbus org.kde.kate-XXXXX /Kate/Document/3 org.kde.KTextEditor.Document.endOfLine 1


dbus-send interprets this value as struct{int32:X int32:Y} but I can't figure out the syntax for passing it back to dbus-send, such as in the following command:

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dbus-send --session --dest=org.kde.kate-XXXXX --type=method_call /Kate/Document/3 org.kde.KTextEditor.Document.insertText array:int32:0,1 string:"FOO" boolean:false

If an array cannot be coerced to QPoint, then what can? Or am I just getting the array syntax wrong?

Thanks.