On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 09:18 +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in the process of writing a web frontend for a small Linux-based > appliance, thus am in need of a tool for configuring the network interfaces. > > NetworkManager seems to be a good fit in that it supports a wide variety > of networks and runs as a daemon which is then accessed by unprivileged > users. The web front-end software we're writing is based on Django, and > I'm creating a collection of models which will represent the > configuration of the network interface. There's a nice Python library; > python-networkmanager which provides an abstraction ontop of DBus so > accessing NetworkManager isn't too painful. > > https://pythonhosted.org/python-networkmanager/ > > So my task now, is knowing the name of a network device, its intended IP > address, routes, DNS configuration, etc, is to figure out how to tell > NetworkManager about it and get it to connect. > > Now, there's a DBus spec which describes the objects here: > https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/unstable/spec.html > > Great. By the looks of things, I create a > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings.Connection object, then hand > that to org.freedesktop.NetworkManager's ActivateConnection method. > > But how do I encode my address settings in a Settings.Connection object? > Where do I find a list of the settings and their possible values?
Hi! There's actually a bunch of Python examples here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/python that use both plain dbus and Python GObject introspection. The GObject introspection ones are similar to python-networkmanager actually. I'm not sure how python-networkmanager accepts a new connection to add, but perhaps the examples give you an idea how to do that? I'd expect it to be a normal "dict of dicts" like the examples above show which is then passed to org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings.AddConnection(). Let me know if this helps, happy to answer any more questions you might have! Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
