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blitz / Cl Dbus

Licence: mit
cl-dbus aims to be a complete implementation of the DBUS protocol used in popular desktop environments.

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This library aims to be an implementation of the D-BUS specification.

  • Introduction

If you don't want to hack on this, you can stop reading at this point and delete the directory containing this file.

Okay, you are still here.

  • Development resources

The official source code repository of this project is managed in git. To get a copy of the recent development tree, visit:

http://github.com/blitz/cl-dbus

There is currently no fancy project page, bug tracker or whatever. Please coordinate your effort with js at alien8 dot de or use github's communication methods to reach me.

  • Setting up a D-Bus server to play with

Verbose mode is disabled in production builds of dbus, so you need to compile your own dbus-daemon. Grab the source and build it with verbose mode enabled via something like:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus cd dbus ; sh autogen.sh ./configure --enable-verbose-mode --enable-asserts --prefix=$HOME/local make && make install

Now you can start it via:

DBUS_VERBOSE=1 ~/local/bin/dbus-daemon --session --print-address

It prints a lot of debug chatter. Near the end is the session address, which looks something like:

unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-9ucTJli40r,guid=bc23bec2cc2ae2bd45f1477b4b5f6f3d

Pass this string to DBUS-CONNECT.

  • Some notes

** Implementation-specific code

An effort has been made to include no implementation-specific code, but to rely on various wrapper libraries. This increases the amount of dependencies somewhat, but frees CL-DBUS from a lot of clutter.

** Endianness

Due to simplicity I plan only to support host endianness for outgoing messages, i.e. every message we compose ourselves. Incoming messages should be parsable regardless of their endianness.

  • Information

The D-BUS spec: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html

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