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!... :)
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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
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