[maemo-developers] DBus Methods and Signals Introspection or Documentation

[From: Faheem Pervez]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Wei Li <ttlee1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am doing a project of middleware on Maemo/N900. I need to find the methods
> and signals related to the hardware, for example, HAL (especially the
> objects under /com/nokia since it is somehow proprietary). However, I
> couldn't find a detailed documentation on that. And I also used tools such
> as mdbus2, but since it lacks documentation and so does DBus itself, I
> couldn't figure out how to do the introspection to find the information I
> want. Anyone knows how to find that? Thanks!
>

You'll get more information if you specify *what* interface you're
trying to figure out. The best way I found for me was looking, using
strings, in a library that calls a D-Bus method, finding the name of
that method call and working out its arguments by trial and error.

Graham Cobb's https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/wiki/index.php?Tools&id=1106&type=g
may also be of help.

Best regards,
Faheem