How to discover introspection toplevel objects

[John (J5) Palmieri]

You should be able to call Introspect on the root object "/" on any
service that exports Introspect.  Not sure if we actually implement it
that way, but we should.

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:12 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 23:05, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I am afraid this is a misunderstanding :)
> 
> ListNames returns a list of applications or connections on the bus, right?
> 
> I'll use an example:
> ListNames includes "org.freedesktop.DBus" for the bus itself, correct?
> 
> Assuming that "/org/freedesktop/DBus" is introspectable (haven't checked) how 
> would an application know about "/org/freedesktop/DBus"?
> 
> Is this a default object that always exists in any connected application?
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> 
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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>