[avahi] browsing without event loop ?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:

> On Mon, 03.09.07 16:57, Ludovic Courtès (ludovic.courtes at laas.fr) wrote:

>> My guess is that it's because it's cumbersome.
>> 
>> Sometimes, you'd like to write something like:
>> 
>>   for machine in services(type=_workstation._tcp)
>>   do
>>     shutdown $machine
>>   done
>> 
>> Using the call-back API makes it hard to express such simple things.
>
> You're welcome to run the Avahi event loop only until a certain
> condition holds. i.e.:
>
> while (avahi_client_get_state(client) != AVAHI_CLIENT_FAILURE) {
>     if (avahi_simple_poll_iterate(p, NULL) != 0)
>         break;       
> }

Sure, but it's harder to parse than the above.

> You are aware of AvahiThreadedPoll which does exactly this in C and
> has been part of Avahi since 0.6.3?

I did come across this page some time ago, but I had not interpreted it
as "what I want to do".  ;-)

Thanks for the link, I'll look into it.

Ludo'.