[SSSD] [PATCH] libsss_dbus

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Tue May 6 15:16:12 UTC 2014


On 05/06/2014 09:34 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> 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.
For what? OpenLMI? And for...?

>
>> 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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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

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