On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:30:42AM -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 05/06/2014 03:52 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:21:37AM +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
>>>> It's easy to call DBus from python, java and friends. There's no
need to
>>>> pass that interaction through the bottleneck (albeit simple bottleneck)
>>>> that this library provides. At the current time this library is not
>>>> thread-safe, not loop-integratable, not-abi-extensible etc. It would
>>>> need to look significantly different to provide the foundation for what
>>>> you provide there. And why? The callers you suggest already have solid
>>>> ways to call DBus. It's sssd/tevent that doesn't.
>>> I agree with Stef here. Currently we have not planned bindings for those
>>> languages for the simple library. The intended users with the simple
>>> library are existing/legacy applications written in C which might be
>>> happier with a "classical" interface. Due to the nature of the
languages
>>> I would expect that applications written in Ruby, Python or Java will
>>> find it more easy to use the DBUS API directly.
>>>
>>> bye,
>>> Sumit
>> +1 this is what we've envisioned from the start. The bindings would go
>> directly do the InfoPipe interface, that's also why we're spending so
>> much time on making them work as one would expect from a full DBus API,
>> with getsetters etc. But some users (like Nikos earlier on the list) just
>> wanted a very /simple/ get-key-value-pair API and this library can be it.
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> You lost me.
> Who is the consumer of the library then other than one apache module?
The apache module calls DBus directly. I think the confusion comes from
the fact that the apache modules call /functions/ from the DBus API that
we developed while we're fleshing out the objects.
Right now, Pavel would use the library and IIRC Sumit would as well.
> Do we have a design page where it is clearly spelled out whom we are
> targeting with this effort?
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/DBusSimpleAPI
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Dmitri Pal
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