nih-dbus-tool(1) General Commands Manual nih-dbus-tool(1)
NAME
nih-dbus-tool - D-Bus binding code generator
SYNOPSIS
nih-dbus-tool [OPTIONS]... [-o FILE] [XMLFILE]
nih-dbus-tool [OPTIONS]... -o FILE --system|--session --dest=NAME OBJECT-PATH
DESCRIPTION
OVERVIEW
The D-Bus introspection format is an XML document describing the interfaces implemented by a particular object, including the methods and
signals of that interface along with their arguments and the properties of that interface.
A single document describes a single object, represented by the root <node> tag. Interfaces implemented by that object are specified by
<interface> tags within it. Methods, signals and properties defined by the interface are described by <method>, <signal> and <property>
tags within the interface. Arguments to methods and signals are defined by <arg> tags within them. Names and other values are specified
as attributes to the tag.
Additional properties for external tools or software may be given in <annotation> tags. These may appear within interfaces, methods, sig-
nals, properties and arguments. nih-dbus-tool makes use of many of these. Note that argument annotations are an nih-dbus-tool extension
to the format.
nih-dbus-tool's parser is reasonably liberal, to allow for future expansion of the D-Bus introspection format. Any unknown tag, attribute
or annotation, or any tag not in an expected location, will be ignored with a warning. However a missing root node tag, missing
attributes, illegal or invalid format values for defined attributes or non well-formed XML will result in an error.
Character data and comments are not considered part of description, and are not parsed.
OPTIONS
AUTHOR
Written by Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
BUGS
Report bugs at <https://launchpad.net/libnih/+bugs>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
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