"-" not allowed in dbus-interface or dbus-object path

[Kaustubh Atrawalkar]

Thanks Thiago. I will be replacing all the dashes with underscore for
creating an interface.

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:

> On Friday 05 December 2008 14:19:16 Kaustubh Atrawalkar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I m writing a server-client architecture in which i m creating a dbus
> > interface based on the application name to be launched via server. But i
> m
> > not able to use "-" in the application executable names. Some how dbus
> > gives error while creating the dbus interface. Is this expected behavior?
> > Why does dbus doesn't allow any special symbol in interface name?
>
> Yes, that's expected. Interface names are expected to be valid C/C++/Java
> identifiers (traditional anyways, not including higher Unicode).
>
> In fact, interface names are modelled after Java class names and package
> names. The practice of replacing dashes (from DNS's LDH) with underscores
> is
> well established.
>
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