[maemo-developers] D-BUS service name confusion

[From: Luca Donaggio]

I can confirm Eero statement: in grsync I use it.opbyte.grsync both for
X-Osso-Service and for osso_initialize() and it works.

Luca Donaggio



On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> ext Axel Sommerfeldt wrote:
> > In the Maemo 4.0 Tutorial, section "Integrating Applications to maemo
> > Framework", there is an example desktop file with the line:
> >
> > X-Osso-Service=org.maemo.example_libosso
> >
> > But when I take a look at the examples provided by Nokia, only the
> > application name is stated here, for example:
> >
> > X-Osso-Service=maemopad
> >
> > But which one is correct, the "long" term (found in the Tutorial) or the
> > "short" term (found in the maemopad example)?
> >
> > Which confuses me even more is a statement found in the documentation of
> > osso_initialize(): [1]
> >
> > "Note that the D-BUS service name will be 'com.nokia.application', where
> > 'application' is the value you gave as the parameter."
> >
> > So a DBUS service name have to be
> "com.nokia.<your-application-name-here>"?
> >
> > Furthermore one can found there:
> >
> > "Note also that this argument must be identical to the X-Osso-Service
> > value in the desktop file, or the D-BUS daemon will kill your
> application."
> >
> > Mixing all of this together, I come to the conclusion that the "short"
> > X-Osso-Service line is correct (because the argument of
> > osso_initialize() must be identical to this value) and using a DBUS
> > service name like "org.maemo.example_libosso" is wrong, because it must
> > be "com.nokia.example_libosso" instead. Is this correct?
> >
> > At least the Tutorial is inconsistent to the example and to the
> > documentation of osso_initialize(). But what information is correct and
> > what is wrong?
> >
> > [1] http://maemo.org/api_refs/4.0/libosso/index.html
>
> Please file a bug against documentation to bugs.maemo.org
> with the above details.
>
> AFAIK com.nokia. is automatically prepended to service names
> that contain only one path element (no dots).  I think it
> would be better to use a long name as "com.nokia." is not
> appropriate service prefix for 3rd party software.
>
>
>        - Eero
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