dbus_bus_connection.md

Module dbus_bus_connection

• Description
• Function Index
• Function Details

Implements the connection to a D-Bus bus.

Copyright (c) 2014 Jean Parpaillon

Behaviours: dbus_connection.

Authors: Jean Parpaillon (jean.parpaillon@free.fr).

Description

Actually, the following addresses classes are supported:

• unix
• tcp

Other classes are ignored, in particular kernel.

Function Index

call/2	Send a message to the bus connection, synchronously.
cast/2	Send a message to the bus connection, asynchronously.
close/1	Stop the bus proxy.
connect/1	Start a proxy to a bus.
get_bus_id/1	Retrieve a bus_id from well-known names.

Function Details

call/2

call(Bus::{'?MODULE', dbus_connection()} | dbus_connection(), Msg::dbus_message()) -> {ok, term()} | {error, term()}

Send a message to the bus connection, synchronously.

cast/2

cast(Bus::{'?MODULE', dbus_connection()} | dbus_connection(), Msg::dbus_message()) -> ok | {error, term()}

Send a message to the bus connection, asynchronously.

close/1

close(Bus::{'?MODULE', dbus_connection()} | dbus_connection()) -> ok

Stop the bus proxy

connect/1

connect(Bus_id::bus_id() | dbus_known_bus()) -> {ok, dbus_connection()} | {error, term()}

Start a proxy to a bus.

get_bus_id/1

get_bus_id(X1::dbus_known_bus()) -> bus_id() | {unsupported, [bus_id()]}

Retrieve a bus_id from well-known names