Hi list,<div><br></div><div>I am new to DBUS and new to Avahi, and I've encountered a major learning curve issue.</div><div><br></div><div>The documentation on the Avahi website doesn't seem to be.... complete to say the least. When I go to <a href="http://avahi.org/">http://avahi.org/</a> I see "Error: Failed to load processor TracNav No macro or processor named 'TracNav' found" and cannot browse the Wikipedia. </div>
<div><br></div><div>With that said, I am trying to communicate with Avahi via DBUS to return all broadcasted services of a particular domain. I will need to get all the details, similar if I were to use "avahi-browse -d <domain> -aktrp". </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have reviewed the Avahi-introspection document (XML), but it's implicit (IMHO), and I am not sure what method call does what to avahi. I've tried tinkering, and making assumptions about which values/parameters will get me the desired results, but I am not getting anywhere. Below is the code I have started - the only goal of adding this to the email is to show you how little headway I have made into solving this problem - although I did spend about 4 hours scouring the internet over the last 3 days trying to find documentation. </div>
<div><br></div><div><div>import dbus</div><div><br></div><div>__bus_name__ = 'org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server'</div><div><br></div><div>sys_bus = dbus.SystemBus()</div><div># get an object called / in org.freedesktop.Avahi to talk to</div>
<div>raw_server = sys_bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Avahi', '/')</div><div> </div><div># objects support interfaces. get the org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server interface to our org.freedesktop.Avahi object.</div>
<div>server_interface = dbus.Interface(raw_server, __bus_name__)</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Furthermore, using d-feet (or qdbus from CL) gives me the following methods to interact with:</div>
<div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">bool <br>
int <br>method <br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.AddressResolverNew <br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.DomainBrowserNew <br>
org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetState <br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.StateChanged<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.EntryGroupNew <br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetVersionString <br>
org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetAlternativeHostName <br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.HostNameResolverNew <br>QDBusObjectPath<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetAlternativeServiceName <br>
org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.IsNSSSupportAvailable <br>QString<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetAPIVersion <br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.RecordBrowserNew <br>signal<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetDomainName <br>
org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.ResolveAddress <br>uint<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetHostName <br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.ResolveHostName <br>void<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetHostNameFqdn <br>
org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.ServiceBrowserNew<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetLocalServiceCookie <br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.ServiceResolverNew<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetNetworkInterfaceIndexByName <br>
org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.ServiceTypeBrowserNew<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.GetNetworkInterfaceNameByIndex<br>org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.SetHostName</blockquote><div><br></div><div>What do any of these do? Some of them are obvious to me, and work just fine - say for instance "GetState" or "GetAPIVersion". Those just return a value. But Im looking for a little more complexity, perhaps I bit off more than I can chew?</div>
<div><br></div><div>If anything, I am just looking for a document I can learn from that might help me figure out how to get a parsable list of services for a particular domain (which includes the resolved information). Can anyone point me in the right direction?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div></div><div><br></div><div>-J</div><div><br></div><div><div>----<br><img src="http://jrcresearch.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sig.gif" width="200" height="67"><br clear="all">
<br>J. R. Carroll<div><div>Independent Researcher through Hurtz Labs</div><div>Research Methods, Test Development, and Statistics</div><div><a href="http://www.jrcresearch.net/" target="_blank">www.jrcresearch.net</a></div>
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