[PATCH 3/3] docs: message bus messages - describe generic error codes
Tom Gundersen
teg at jklm.no
Tue Apr 25 12:53:45 UTC 2017
Describe the error codes given for invalid interface/method/signature.
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>
---
doc/dbus-specification.xml | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
index 11530d10..a3ec0f70 100644
--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
+++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
@@ -5218,7 +5218,15 @@
<title>Message Bus Messages</title>
<para>
The special message bus name <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus</literal>
- responds to a number of additional messages.
+ responds to a number of additional messages. The message bus may return a
+ number of different error messages on failure, in particular,
+ <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownInterface</literal> if the
+ given interface is not known,
+ <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod</literal> if the given
+ method is not known and
+ <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs</literal> if the signature
+ is not as expected for the method. Individual methods may return further
+ error codes as indicated below.
</para>
<sect3 id="bus-messages-hello">
--
2.12.2
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