On 9/13/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 08:16 -0400, Jacob wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:51:27 -0600 > > "Pat Sissons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm currently writing a Ruby NM wrapper library that operates over the > > > DBus. The trouble is that I don't really have any concrete spec to > > > build it with. I have been using > > > http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/NetworkManager%20DBUS%20API.txt > > > and > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-October/msg00233.html > > > along with dbus-send and dbus-monitor for debugging and testing. > > > Although I have done quite a bit with these resources, I'm positive > > > that a lot of the functionality is left to be implemented simply > > > because I'm not aware of its existence, the signals being a prime > > > example. I have managed to extract a fair number of the NM interface > > > signals from the NM source, but I know there is much much more. I > > > have found absolutely no documentation on the NMI interface. > > > > > > Anyways, if anyone knows of or can produce a clean spec for 0.6.4 (and > > > any future versions that don't include introspection) that would be > > > great, if not, any pointers on a more efficient way of deciphering the > > > spec would be great too. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > Forgive me if I'm wrong, but from what I've heard just browsing this list, > > NetworkManager's documentation is lacking everywhere, or is very difficult > > to find. If there is no real documentation, a Wiki of some kind could be > > set up for NM, so that knowledge could be added as it is mentioned here in > > this list. > > Yeah, sorry :( The current dbus interface is pretty ad-hoc and hasn't > changed much in 2 years. It won't necessarily be easy to pull out the > details (especially for activation of a device with wireless security), > but I'm happy to help where I can. I've done nm clients in both C and > python. > > 0.7 bits are much better thought out and correctly use interfaces and > objects in a much more understandable manner. That also means it will > be a lot simpler to extract the D-Bus interface details and put them > into documentation formats. > > dan > > > > Then again, I'm always screaming "Wiki fixes that!"... :) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >
Yea i was browsing the source today trying to fill in as many details as I could. I came across the createWirelessNetwork and saw that it uses a variable number of arguments that are detailed further in libnm-util/dbus-helpers.c I will leave that part of the development to the end since that will take a little more effort. I think I have a handle on the NMI interface as well, i'll likely work on that tomorrow. The 0.7 svn source includes the introspect xml files, so theoretically, i shouldn't have to worry about the specs anymore than reading those files. And in the case of ruby-dbus, introspection is built in so the methods will be created automagically for me. I will look forward to its release, however, i noticed that gutsy (i'm an ubuntu boy) is only using 0.6.5. So it looks like a little wait yet before 0.7 is mainstream. Also, I'm really looking forward to a wiki if someone can provide/create one. I have a fair amount of documentation that many might find useful. And this would also allow corrections to my assumptions that may have been wrong (i know there must be some). -- Pat _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
