How to discover introspection toplevel objects

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Tue Jan 24 14:05:50 PST 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 22:23 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> once an application knows an introspectable object is can look into the 
> introspection data to find children.
> 
> However I didn't find any documentation, or maybe I missed the relevant parts, 
> on how to discover those "toplevel" objects.
> 
> So, how should an application proceed if it wants to introspect an unknown 
> peer application?
> 

Read the specification
(http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html). There is a
method on the bus called org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>



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