dbus: A client library for the D-Bus IPC system.

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D-Bus is a simple, message-based protocol for inter-process communication, which allows applications to interact with other parts of the machine and the user's session using remote procedure calls.

D-Bus is a essential part of the modern Linux desktop, where it replaces earlier protocols such as CORBA and DCOP.

This library is an implementation of the D-Bus protocol in Haskell. It can be used to add D-Bus support to Haskell applications, without the awkward interfaces common to foreign bindings.

Example: connect to the session bus, and get a list of active names.

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import Data.List (sort)
import DBus
import DBus.Client

main = do
    client <- connectSession
 
    -- Request a list of connected clients from the bus
    reply <- call_ client (methodCall "/org/freedesktop/DBus" "org.freedesktop.DBus" "ListNames")
        { methodCallDestination = Just "org.freedesktop.DBus"
        }
 
    -- org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames() returns a single value, which is
    -- a list of names (here represented as [String])
    let Just names = fromVariant (methodReturnBody reply !! 0)
 
    -- Print each name on a line, sorted so reserved names are below
    -- temporary names.
    mapM_ putStrLn (sort names)
$ ghc --make list-names.hs
$ ./list-names
:1.0
:1.1
:1.10
:1.106
:1.109
:1.110
ca.desrt.dconf
org.freedesktop.DBus
org.freedesktop.Notifications
org.freedesktop.secrets
org.gnome.ScreenSaver

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Dependencies base (>=4.16 && <5), bytestring (<0.13), cereal (<0.6), conduit (>=1.3.0 && <1.4), containers (<0.7), deepseq (<1.6), exceptions (<0.11), filepath (<1.5), lens (<5.3), network (>=3.1.2.1 && <3.2), parsec (<3.2), random (<1.3), split (<0.3), template-haskell (>=2.18 && <2.22), text (<2.2), th-lift (<0.9), transformers (<0.7), unix (<2.9), vector (<0.14), xml-conduit (>=1.9.0.0 && <1.10.0.0), xml-types (<0.4) [details]
License Apache-2.0
Author John Millikin <john@john-millikin.com>
Maintainer Andrey Sverdlichenko <blaze@rusty.zone>
Category Network, Desktop
Home page https://github.com/rblaze/haskell-dbus#readme
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/rblaze/haskell-dbus
Uploaded by blaze at 2023-12-26T20:35:58Z
Distributions Arch:1.3.1, Debian:1.2.16, Fedora:1.2.29, LTSHaskell:1.3.2, NixOS:1.3.2, Stackage:1.3.2, openSUSE:1.3.2
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