Discovering services

[Matthew Johnson]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Havoc Pennington wrote:

>>> 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).
>> 
>> Fully agree, I've seen several interesting dcop applications grow out of 
>> people playing with the command line client and discovering the potential. 
>> This is made much easier by self-documenting over the bus.
>
> This has been discussed and a rough plan outlined several times, but no 
> patches yet.
>
There was disagreement over what should be included in the Introspect
call, and what should be made into a separate call. I'm fully in favour
of including a single-line documentation annotation with method calls.

What needs patching? presumably it's only the documentation of what
annotations should be included in the XML, or possibly adding a new
element to the DTD (although this doesn't seem neccessary).

Matt

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