Trying introspect with python bindings

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 14:51, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> Using the latest CVS version I changed the list-system-services.py 
> (which might be renamed to list-sytem-names.py) to try to let it return 
> the introspection data for the DBus object but without any luck. This is 
> what the (extra) code looks like:
> 
>    dbus_info = dbus_service.get_object('/org/freedesktop/DBus', 
> 'org.freedesktop.Introspectable')
>    introspect = dbus_info.Introspect()
>    print str(introspect)
> 
> and this is what it returns:
> 
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "list-session-services.py", line 25, in ?
>        introspect = dbus_info.Introspect()
>      File "/home/tako/projects/dbus/dbus/python/dbus.py", line 235, in 
> __call__
>        reply_message = 
> self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, 5000)
>      File "/home/tako/projects/dbus/dbus/python/dbus_bindings.pyx", line 
> 524, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
>        raise DBusException, error.message
>    dbus_bindings.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus does not understand 
> message Introspect
> 
> it does not give an error in the first line asking the object for its 
> interface so I assume DBus implements it (it should, shouldn't it? ;-)).
> 
> Does anybody have any idea why this doesn't work?

> bus_info = dbus_service.get_object('/org/freedesktop/DBus', 
> 'org.freedesktop.Introspectable')
This doesn't actually call the remote object.  It just sets properties
on the proxy object.  I don't think /org/freedesktop/DBus supports
introspection as of yet.

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J5