C-API Examples

[Rob Taylor]

Kosina, Martin wrote:
> Thiago wrote:
>> The way I see it, the libdbus-1 C API is so low level that 
>> it's hard to get right. There are many pitfalls, including services not
> 
>> listing their interface introspection correctly (think HAL, for
> example).
> 
> Yes, its been a bit overwhelming. Having written a somewhat similar IPC
> system from scratch, I do recognize some of the basic patterns involved
> - although you are right, at ~75 KLOC, the codebase is pretty hard to
> grasp sometimes. I am unfortunately fighting the internals (due to the
> Win32 porting effort) and the public interface concepts at the same
> time, not an ideal situation, either.
> 
> Matt wrote:
>> http://www.matthew.ath.cx/misc/dbus/ is one that I compiled when I
>> worked it out while writing a simple app and the Java bindings.
> 
> Thanks - that is very helpful. I can get everything to connect/register
> on the bus, but it seems that _dbus_connection_read_write_dispatch()
> never does any reading (so the send/receive or listen/query pairs never
> exchange anything). (It seems status is always DBUS_DISPATCH_COMPLETED
> after the initial exchange, hence
> _dbus_connection_do_iteration_unlocked() never gets subsequently called
> ?) I put a breakpoint at _dbus_read() and it never gets hit...
> 
> Has anyone tried these recently ? I suspect something might have
> changed, because _dbus_connection_read_write_dispatch() doesn't even run
> without some //hacking due to a call to _dbus_return_val_if_fail(),
> which appears to assert that the function call does not start with an
> '_' (leading me to believe its been a while since this actually worked -
> but perhaps I am missing something simple ?).
> 
> 
> Re: low-level API choice
>> Can you share with us your reasons for that?
> 
> Ok, this is going to be slightly OT, but since you asked :-) We don't
> want the Qt or Glib dependencies, especially on Windows. The application
> is a CORBA-like distributed component system used for a very particular
> purpose, by people that currently live and breathe perl - so to be
> adopted, it must be VERY simple to use and set up, i.e. no special
> libraries, mingw-type toolchains, etc. D-bus looked very interesting
> because of the existing object registration, but perhaps we are
> stretching the use-case a bit...
>

This might be a silly comment, but what about using the perl bindings? ;)

Thanks,
Rob Taylor