Convert WiFi access point flags to connection profile security settings

[Adrien Cossa]

Hi Beniamino,

thanks, that's very helpful.

On 06.05.24 09:36, Beniamino Galvani wrote:

There is a better way: you can use the AddAndActivate2() D-Bus API [1]
and pass as `specific_object` the path of an AP object. NM will
autocomplete the security settings automatically [2]. You only need to
supply a PSK if you are connecting to a WPA-PSK/SAE network. For
reference, you can look at how nmcli does it in [3].

[1] https://networkmanager.dev/docs/api/latest/gdbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.html#gdbus-method-org-freedesktop-NetworkManager.AddAndActivateConnection2
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/blob/1.49.0-dev/src/core/devices/wifi/nm-wifi-utils.c#L533
[3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/blob/1.49.0-dev/src/nmcli/devices.c#L3643


Is there a way to get the same auto-completion feature when adding a new connection profile, but without activating it?

I was thinking of AddConnection2() [4], but it does not allow to pass an AP's path...

[4] https://networkmanager.dev/docs/api/latest/gdbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings.html#gdbus-method-org-freedesktop-NetworkManager-Settings.AddConnection2

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