Re: on-the-fly D-Bus proxy creation

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello,

Hi,

> One can call a D-Bus method as a normal method of CaribouDaemonProxy.
> This is really handy and I wished to have similar feature in Elisp
> (though I haven't ever written any practical D-Bus code in Elisp).
>
> Thanks to cl-generic, I gave it a try.  With the attached code (far from
> complete though), a client can be implemented as:
>
>   (dbus-define-proxy search-provider "\
>   <node>
>     <interface name=\"org.gnome.Shell.SearchProvider2\">
>       <method name=\"GetInitialResultSet\">
>         <arg type=\"as\" name=\"terms\" direction=\"in\" />
>         <arg type=\"as\" name=\"results\" direction=\"out\" />
>       </method>
>       <!-- actually, there are more methods in this interface -->
>     </interface>
>   </node>")
>
> Then you can create a client and call D-Bus methods:
>
>   (setq search-provider
>         (search-provider-make :session
>                               "org.gnome.Weather.BackgroundService"
>                               "/org/gnome/Weather/BackgroundService"))
>   (search-provider-call-GetInitialResultSet search-provider '("tokyo"))
>
> If this seems to be useful, I can finish it off as a patch.

There was some related work, see <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/128998>.
I don't know the status, 'tho.

> Thanks,
> 
> Daiki Ueno

Best regards, Michael.