My comments on D-BUS

[Havoc Pennington]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 17:22 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:43:57 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > It's undocumented but exists. You call Introspect() on an object path
> > and it returns a big XML string with the object instances at or below
> > that path along with the method information.
> > 
> > Implementing Introspect() is currently left to the bindings though so an
> > object implemented in raw libdbus will frequently suck it up and not
> > have the method.
> 
> Hmm, is that actually required for all DBUS services? If so then I guess
> Christian and I have some work to do for Galago and the notification
> daemon ...
> 

It isn't strictly required, but a good language binding probably does
need to use it (or require manual type specification as the perl
bindings do)

Havoc