Introspection

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Mon Dec 8 00:10:22 PST 2008


Colin Walters wrote:
>One thing that came up in the initial report is introspection.  Almost
>nothing explicitly allows it right now.  I see a few options:
>
>1) Have projects use rules of the form
>    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
>               send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" />
>2) Add rule syntax like: <allow introspect="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>,
>and add that to the config files
>3) Blanket allow introspection as a global exception to the default-deny
> policy
>
>Opinions?  Other options?  1) and 2) require updating almost
>everything, 3) requires another DBus release.

org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable
org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer
org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties

Those interfaces should be available for all programs. Ok, maybe 
Properties on a case-by-case basis (if the app has properties, it has to 
enable that interface).

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