[avahi] DBUS

Sebastien Estienne sebastien.estienne at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 06:33:42 EST 2005


2005/7/27, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.de>:
> Hi!
> 
> Since lathiat seems to have vanished without a trace (at least he
> doesn't respond to my emails), I took some time today to get DBUS
> support in avahi working, partially at least.
> 
> Current SVN contains support for registering mDNS services via
> DBUS. Support for browsing/resolving is not yet available.
> 
> The interface available through DBUS is described here:
> 
> http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/avahi-daemon/DBUS-API?rev=171&root=flexmdns&view=auto
> 
> Yes, it is very superficial, but together with the doxygen docs should
> be enough to get clients working.
> 
> An example client written in python is available here:
> 
> http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/avahi-daemon/dbus-test.py?rev=172&root=flexmdns&view=auto
> 
> Sebastien, do you want to join me in wrapping the missing APIs?
Yes sure, i'll look at what you did asap.

Maybe we could start writting the DBUS-API (filling the document that
you started), and then we can share the implementation part

what do you think?

> 
> For the Debian users: This requires DBUS 0.3x which isn't in Debian
> yet. And python2.4-gtk2 which is missing, too. The former I compiled
> in a temporary directory, while for the latter I stole a package from
> ubuntu.
> 
> Lennart
> 
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