gdbus: Add a way to emit a signal

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37890#c6 where it was
discovered that dbus-send(1) actually doesn't work (either libdbus-1's
flush implementation or dbus-send(1)'s usage of it is broken) so it's
useful to have here.

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
David Zeuthen
2011-06-04 12:33:39 -04:00
parent 0c8bb8d479
commit 0b41002474
2 changed files with 242 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
<refnamediv>
<refname>gdbus</refname>
<refpurpose>Introspect and call remote objects</refpurpose>
<refpurpose>Tool for working with D-Bus objects</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -54,6 +54,22 @@
<arg choice="plain">ARG1</arg>
<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat">ARG2</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>gdbus</command>
<arg choice="plain">emit</arg>
<group>
<arg choice="plain">--system</arg>
<arg choice="plain">--session</arg>
<arg choice="plain">--address <replaceable>address</replaceable></arg>
</group>
<arg choice="plain">--object-path <replaceable>/path/to/object</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice="plain">--signal <replaceable>org.project.InterfaceName.SignalName</replaceable></arg>
<group>
<arg choice="plain">--dest <replaceable>unique_bus_name</replaceable></arg>
</group>
<arg choice="plain">ARG1</arg>
<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat">ARG2</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>gdbus</command>
<arg choice="plain">help</arg>
@@ -63,8 +79,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
<command>gdbus</command> offers a simple commandline utility for
introspecting and calling methods on remote objects.
<command>gdbus</command> is a simple tool for working with D-Bus objects.
</para>
<refsect2>
<title>Commands</title>
@@ -95,6 +110,14 @@
values.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>emit</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Emits a signal. Each argument to include in the signal must be specified as a serialized
<link linkend="GVariant"><type>GVariant</type></link> except that strings do
not need explicit quotes.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>help</option></term>
<listitem><para>
@@ -238,6 +261,20 @@ The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager is owned by :1.5
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/4141: org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.AccessPoint.PropertiesChanged ({'Strength': &lt;byte 0x64&gt;},)
</programlisting>
<para>
Emitting a signal:
</para>
<programlisting>
$ gdbus emit --session --o /foo -s org.bar.Foo "['foo', 'bar', 'baz']"
</programlisting>
<para>
Emitting a signal to a specific process:
</para>
<programlisting>
$ gdbus emit --session --o /foo -s org.bar.Foo someString --dest :1.3
</programlisting>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>

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@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ usage (gint *argc, gchar **argv[], gboolean use_stdout)
" introspect Introspect a remote object\n"
" monitor Monitor a remote object\n"
" call Invoke a method on a remote object\n"
" emit Emit a signal\n"
"\n"
"Use \"%s COMMAND --help\" to get help on each command.\n"),
program_name);
@@ -524,6 +525,196 @@ _g_variant_parse_me_harder (GVariantType *type,
/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
static gchar *opt_emit_dest = NULL;
static gchar *opt_emit_object_path = NULL;
static gchar *opt_emit_signal = NULL;
static const GOptionEntry emit_entries[] =
{
{ "dest", 'd', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &opt_emit_dest, N_("Optional destination for signal (unique name)"), NULL},
{ "object-path", 'o', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &opt_emit_object_path, N_("Object path to emit signal on"), NULL},
{ "signal", 's', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &opt_emit_signal, N_("Signal and interface name"), NULL},
{ NULL }
};
static gboolean
handle_emit (gint *argc,
gchar **argv[],
gboolean request_completion,
const gchar *completion_cur,
const gchar *completion_prev)
{
gint ret;
GOptionContext *o;
gchar *s;
GError *error;
GDBusConnection *c;
GVariant *parameters;
gchar *interface_name;
gchar *signal_name;
GVariantBuilder builder;
guint n;
ret = FALSE;
c = NULL;
parameters = NULL;
interface_name = NULL;
signal_name = NULL;
modify_argv0_for_command (argc, argv, "emit");
o = g_option_context_new (NULL);
g_option_context_set_help_enabled (o, FALSE);
g_option_context_set_summary (o, _("Emit a signal."));
g_option_context_add_main_entries (o, emit_entries, GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
g_option_context_add_group (o, connection_get_group ());
if (!g_option_context_parse (o, argc, argv, NULL))
{
if (!request_completion)
{
s = g_option_context_get_help (o, FALSE, NULL);
g_printerr ("%s", s);
g_free (s);
goto out;
}
}
error = NULL;
c = connection_get_dbus_connection (&error);
if (c == NULL)
{
if (request_completion)
{
if (g_strcmp0 (completion_prev, "--address") == 0)
{
g_print ("unix:\n"
"tcp:\n"
"nonce-tcp:\n");
}
else
{
g_print ("--system \n--session \n--address \n");
}
}
else
{
g_printerr (_("Error connecting: %s\n"), error->message);
g_error_free (error);
}
goto out;
}
/* All done with completion now */
if (request_completion)
goto out;
if (opt_emit_object_path == NULL)
{
g_printerr (_("Error: object path not specified.\n"));
goto out;
}
if (!g_variant_is_object_path (opt_emit_object_path))
{
g_printerr (_("Error: %s is not a valid object path\n"), opt_emit_object_path);
goto out;
}
if (opt_emit_signal == NULL)
{
g_printerr (_("Error: signal not specified.\n"));
goto out;
}
s = strrchr (opt_emit_signal, '.');
signal_name = g_strdup (s + 1);
interface_name = g_strndup (opt_emit_signal, s - opt_emit_signal);
if (!g_dbus_is_interface_name (interface_name))
{
g_printerr (_("Error: %s is not a valid interface name\n"), interface_name);
goto out;
}
if (!g_dbus_is_member_name (signal_name))
{
g_printerr (_("Error: %s is not a valid member name\n"), signal_name);
goto out;
}
if (opt_emit_dest != NULL && !g_dbus_is_unique_name (opt_emit_dest))
{
g_printerr (_("Error: %s is not a valid unique bus name.\n"), opt_emit_dest);
goto out;
}
/* Read parameters */
g_variant_builder_init (&builder, G_VARIANT_TYPE_TUPLE);
for (n = 1; n < (guint) *argc; n++)
{
GVariant *value;
error = NULL;
value = g_variant_parse (NULL,
(*argv)[n],
NULL,
NULL,
&error);
if (value == NULL)
{
g_error_free (error);
error = NULL;
value = _g_variant_parse_me_harder (NULL, (*argv)[n], &error);
if (value == NULL)
{
g_printerr (_("Error parsing parameter %d: %s\n"),
n,
error->message);
g_error_free (error);
g_variant_builder_clear (&builder);
goto out;
}
}
g_variant_builder_add_value (&builder, value);
}
parameters = g_variant_builder_end (&builder);
if (parameters != NULL)
parameters = g_variant_ref_sink (parameters);
if (!g_dbus_connection_emit_signal (c,
opt_emit_dest,
opt_emit_object_path,
interface_name,
signal_name,
parameters,
&error))
{
g_printerr (_("Error: %s\n"), error->message);
g_error_free (error);
goto out;
}
if (!g_dbus_connection_flush_sync (c, NULL, &error))
{
g_printerr (_("Error flushing connection: %s\n"), error->message);
g_error_free (error);
goto out;
}
ret = TRUE;
out:
if (c != NULL)
g_object_unref (c);
if (parameters != NULL)
g_variant_unref (parameters);
g_free (interface_name);
g_free (signal_name);
g_option_context_free (o);
return ret;
}
/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
static gchar *opt_call_dest = NULL;
static gchar *opt_call_object_path = NULL;
static gchar *opt_call_method = NULL;
@@ -1698,6 +1889,16 @@ main (gint argc, gchar *argv[])
}
goto out;
}
else if (g_strcmp0 (command, "emit") == 0)
{
if (handle_emit (&argc,
&argv,
request_completion,
completion_cur,
completion_prev))
ret = 0;
goto out;
}
else if (g_strcmp0 (command, "call") == 0)
{
if (handle_call (&argc,
@@ -1797,7 +1998,7 @@ main (gint argc, gchar *argv[])
{
if (request_completion)
{
g_print ("help \ncall \nintrospect \nmonitor \n");
g_print ("help \nemit \ncall \nintrospect \nmonitor \n");
ret = 0;
goto out;
}