[avahi] DBUS API completed

[Trent Lloyd]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 04:34:42PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Hurrah!
> 
> The BDUS API is now fully implemented:
> 
>     http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/avahi-daemon/DBUS-API?root=flexmdns&view=auto
> 
> Though certainly some improvements like adding DBUS introspection and
> limiting the resources that can be allocated via DBUS can be made, the
> API is ready for public consumption.
> 
> This python script 
> 
>      http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/avahi-daemon/dbus-test.py?root=flexmdns&view=auto
> 
> shows how to use this stuff. Its really a bad example since it doesn't
> deal with conflicts for the services it creates, but nonetheless it
> shows how things work basically.
> 
> Any real documentation isn't available yet. Enums are wrapped as
> integers for the client, so it might be non-trivial to make use of
> them. Consult core.h if you need the integer value of an enum.
> 
> A pygtk tool similar to avahi-discover but using this DBUS-API should
> be easy to write. Anyone?
> 
> A C client wrapper hiding the DBUS subtleties is still to be done.

I am currently working on this.

Unfortunately dbus in C isn't quite as nice as in python :)

Trent

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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.