Dbus device API

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1 A dbus API that allows setting/getting hardware specifics in a platform independent way.
2 The existing Neo1973 DBus API

A dbus API that allows setting/getting hardware specifics in a platform independent way.

May be written as devmand (see linuxtogo.org)
May be the successor to zaurusd
May be formalized using the FreeSmartPhone.org initiative

Could be based on [1] Or based on [2]

The existing Neo1973 DBus API

Here is the list of objects that advertise themselves on dbus on my Neo1973 right now. Each object links to a page with an overview of the API for the object (based on the results of calling Introspect), followed by the XML from an Introspect call.

The (arbitrary) way I constructed the overview of the API is as follows:

Bus name: <bus name within the given bus>
Object name: <object name within that bus name>
  interface: <some interface the object provides>
    (outval1:type, outval2:type) methodName(inval1:type,inval2:type)
    signal (arg1:type)

The types are just a direct transcription of the type in the Introspect XML.

The types:

s - string
b - boolean
ax - array of x (where x is another entry in this list)
<someone please add any new types for which you know the meaning>

TODO: finish filling out the list; double check for objects ending in a digit (since I filtered those out, some rightly and now I see some incorrectly).

Session Bus

org_freedesktop_DBus._
org_freedesktop_Notifications._org_freedesktop
- Notifications
org_gnome_evolution_dataserver_AddressBook._org_gnome_evolution_dataserver_addressbook
- BookFactory
- file_3a__2f__2f__2f_home_2f_root_2f__2e_evolution_2f_addressbook_2f_local_2f_system
org_gnome_evolution_dataserver_Calendar._org_gnome_evolution_dataserver_calendar
org_openmoko_PhoneKit._org_openmoko_PhoneKit

Starter Bus

For some reason this appears to be identical to the Session Bus. There is a tree of GConf nodes returned in the Introspection, but they just refer to more nodes, the leaf nodes don't advertise any interfaces or functionality via Introspect.