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

[Konstantinos Smanis]

If I'm not awfully off-topic, why not use DBus Activation?

On 8/5/09, David Jarvie <djarvie at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, August 5, 2009 7:31 am, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If my understanding is correct, KApplication automatically registers a
> D-Bus service for the application in its constructor. Following your
> advice, that would imply that applications can't use their default D-Bus
> service for a callable interface, but must instead set up an additional
> service which they would register later. That might be practical for
> objects/methods which the application explicitly creates, but what about
> default ones like com.trolltech.Qt.QWidget?
>
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> David Jarvie.
> KDE developer.
> KAlarm author & maintainer.
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>
>

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