[systemd-devel] Python wrappers for the DBus API

[Mirco Tischler]

2013/3/5 Holger Winkelmann <hw at travelping.com>

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> On Mar 5, 2013, at 10:21 PM, Mirco Tischler <mt-ml at gmx.de> wrote:
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> 2013/3/5 Holger Winkelmann <hw at travelping.com>
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>> Hi David,
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>> On Mar 5, 2013, at 9:52 PM, David Strauss <david at davidstrauss.net> wrote:
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>> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Holger Winkelmann <hw at travelping.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Or is there a special journal socket to write to?
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>> > Yes, and the Python module's use of the C library wraps all of that.
>> >
>> > Auke is also correct that you can write to stderr/stdout from a
>> > service running in systemd. That does not support structured logging,
>> > though.
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>> Thats what I expected anyway, so for our logging purposes I would like to
>> have structured
>> logging…
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>> So thanks for the Info, I'll wait for the Documentation of the raw format
>> (or we check the C
>> implementation) for the time being we use the C-Lib.
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>> >
>> > --
>> > David Strauss
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>> --
>> Holger Winkelmann
>> Managing Director
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>> Out of curiosity, what are your reasons to avoid the C library? And I
> personally don't ever expect the raw format to be documented - I see it as
> an implementation detail, not part of any kind of API
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>
> Depends how you see an API, We have a messaging passing background (we are
> Erlang programmer here) and for us the message over the socket is seen as
> the API. and the C-lib wraps this for the C Language.
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> To use the C-API we need to write a NIF function for Erlang where the c
> part needs to be cross compiled for all different architectures. Writing
> the format native to the socket will avoid this.
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> Another example: Just recently we had a project partner being in Java-Land
> was not allowed by management to use any Native Library.
>
> Thanks, that makes more sense. I stupidly assumed you were talking about
python ;-)


> Holger
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> Mirco
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> Holger Winkelmann
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