How to know when D-Bus interfaces and methods are available

[Thiago Macieira]

David Jarvie wrote:
>There has been some discussion on the kde-pim list about how to
> successfully call D-Bus methods immediately after starting an
> application. The problem is that initially, only the D-Bus service for
> the application exists, and it is necessary to wait until first its
> interfaces and then its methods are ready to be used. Unfortunately
> there seems to be no clean way to know when the D-Bus methods are ready
> to be called.
>
>As pointed out by Ingo Klöcker, this is likely to be a problem
> encountered by others, so I'm forwarding the discussion to core-devel.

The solution is simple:

Don't register the service name until your objects are set up. Or, at the 
latest, make sure that they will be created before the next event loop 
run.

That's Thomas's solution. It's the correct way to go.

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