Discovering services

[Jamie McCracken]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> If you need this, I think we'd have to look instead at some way to 
> install the introspect information in files. But, that's a pretty large 
> project and adds a fair bit of complexity.
> 

It would be handy if this introspect stuff could be in the service file 
(although the service file is not in xml format which is a bummer I 
guess as it might be too late to change at this stage?)

I suspect any out of process scripting requirement would definitely need 
this *passive* introspection facility.

Another thing missing (unless I have missed it!) in the Dbus introspect 
format is english descriptions of the methods suitable for display in an 
IDE/ script editor - think glib property descriptions and VBA's ability 
to display english descriptions on remote COM method calls in its IDE 
(.Net also has this ability too).

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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