Docs and specs?

[Henri Bergius]

On 8/9/07, keith preston <keithpre at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just took a look and no luck, gajim is in python.   However this generally
> isn't a problem.   Geoclue is first and foremost a  DBus API specification.
>  We for ease of use provide easy c client bindings and most of the backends
> are written in C, but a Python bindings should not be difficult at all.

Getting location in Python is really not very difficult:

    # Start with getting position from GeoClue
    bus = dbus.SessionBus()

    # TODO: Get the GeoClue interface to use from
/schemas/apps/geoclue/position/defaultpath
    # and /schemas/apps/geoclue/position/defaultserviceGConf keys
    proxy_obj =
bus.get_object('org.foinse_project.geoclue.position.hostip',
'/org/foinse_project/geoclue/position/hostip')
    geoclue_iface = dbus.Interface(proxy_obj,
'org.foinse_project.geoclue.position')

    # Get the coordinates from the service
    coordinates = geoclue_iface.current_position()

    print "According to GeoClue you are in %s %s." % (coordinates[0],
coordinates[1])

This is a bit old code done for a maemo application, so it uses only
coordinate-based location (not civic as it could), and doesn't check
for appropriate backend to use from GeoClue's GConf (gconf support was
not available in maemo-python at that time).

So even with pure D-Bus this isn't much code. On top of this I've
understood the INdT guys are looking to make Python bindings.

> Keith Preston

/Bergie

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