[dbus-cplusplus-devel] DBus server implementation

[Schmottlach, G. <gle...@ha...>]

 

Has anyone attempted creating a DBus server using the DBus-C++ binding?
I'd like to create a service that a client can call directly and bypass
the dbus-daemon. I see an (apparently) incomplete implementation of a
server in server.h.

 

I have managed to create a server that detects a new connection from the
client. I then create a service inheriting from a generated adaptor but
it appears my adaptor does not provide the basic interface(s) exposed by
org.freedesktop.DBus. To remedy this I used dbusxx-xml2cpp to generate
an org.freedesktop.DBus adaptor which my service inherited from as well,
e.g.

 

class SimpleServiceImpl

   :

   public com::SimpleService_adaptor,

   public org::freedesktop::DBus_adaptor,

   public DBus::IntrospectableAdaptor,

   public DBus::ObjectAdaptor

{

...

}

 

The SimpleService adaptor describes the services I'm trying to implement
while the DBus_adaptor contains those methods that must be implemented
to support the "stock" DBus server interface. I provided a generic
implementation of the DBus server methods. When I run the client I keep
getting an exception that the "AddMatch" method was not found although I
do provide an implementation in DBus adaptor class. It's as if the
methods in the DBus_adaptor have not been registered. Normally a service
would register its interface with the dbus-daemon but for a local server
this won't occur (because there is no daemon running to register with).
Likewise, the client does not attempt to connect directly to a
system/session/activation bus but instead does a direct connect to the
server I have written.

 

Has anyone been able to create a true server that listen's on a
local-socket and allows a client to connect to it directly (bypassing
the dbus-daemon)? It seems like I'm close to my goal but it appears the
dbusxx-xml2cpp generator creates a proxy used by the client that
"assumes" it will be talking to the daemon rather than a direct
connection to a server. How do I make my server appear to be a daemon?

 

Any suggestions would be helpful . . .