Talk:Dbus

I tried to make up some working minimal example in python to access navit via python.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import dbus
 
# You must initialize the gobject/dbus support for threading
# before doing anything.
import gobject
gobject.threads_init()
 
from dbus import glib
glib.init_threads()
 
# Create a session bus.
import dbus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
 
# Create an object that will proxy for a particular remote object.
remote_object = bus.get_object("org.navit_project.navit", # Connection name
                               "/org/navit_project/navit/default_navit" ) # Object's path
 
# Introspection returns an XML document containing information
# about the methods supported by an interface.
print "Introspection data:"
print remote_object.Introspect()
 
iface = dbus.Interface(remote_object, dbus_interface="org.navit_project.navit")
iter = iface.attr_iter()
path = remote_object.get_attr_wi("navit",iter)
navit = bus.get_object('org.navit_project.navit', path[1])
iface.attr_iter_destroy(iter)
 
print "Zoom to Berlin, Germany"
navit.set_center_by_string("geo: 13.383333 52.516667")
 
iface2 = dbus.Interface(remote_object, dbus_interface="org.navit_project.navit.navit")
iface2.set_attr("zoom", 1024)

This works but questions remain:

• Why is iface2 needed and navit.set_attr doesn't work ?
• The beginning is taken from https://wiki.python.org/moin/DbusExamples - is threading necessary ?
• How can be tested if an instance of navit is running ?

After the questions are answered I would find it useful to put this example on the page itself or is there a better place or a directory in the source tree with such examples ?

--C holtermann (talk) 18:40, 9 November 2013 (CET)