[dbus-cplusplus-devel] Detecting When Client Connects/Disconnects

[Jason, J. <jam...@in...>]

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find what I needed in a quick search of the archives.  If it is there, simply pointing me to the relevant discussion thread would be great.

I have a class that implements the adaptor and I would like to do the following:
- detect when a client disconnects from my session bus (either by cleanly shutting down or even if it crashes)
- obtain the client that is sending a message (i.e., calling one of my exported methods)

The reason I would like to do this is that when a client calls some of my exposed methods, I allocate some resources on the client's behalf.  When the client calls one of these methods, I need to determine the unique client that is requesting it.  I need to know when the client disconnects (or dies) so that I can look at my held resources and clean up the ones that have been created on behalf of the client.

A quick perusal of the header files and mapping out the inheritance hierarchy for the classes, I don't see how I can get from my class that derives from *_adaptor and DBus::ObjectAdaptor to a class that can give me this information.  I see that the DBus::Server class has an on_new_connection callback, but that doesn't appear to be what I want.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks.
Jamie

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