The dbus package
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
Properties
| Versions | 0.10, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.10.3, 0.10.4, 0.10.5, 0.10.6, 0.10.7, 0.10.8, 0.10.9, 0.10.9.1, 0.10.9.2, 0.10.10, 0.10.11, 0.10.12 |
|---|---|
| Dependencies | base (>=4.0 && <5.0), bytestring (>=0.9), cereal (>=0.3.4 && <0.4), containers (>=0.1 && <0.6), libxml-sax (==0.7.*), network (>=2.2), network-bytestring (>=0.1.2 && <0.2), parsec (>=2.0 && <3.2), random (==1.0.*), text (>=0.11.1.5 && <0.12), transformers (>=0.2 && <0.4), unix (>=2.2 && <2.7), vector (>=0.7 && <0.11), xml-types (==0.3.*) [details] |
| License | GPL-3 |
| Author | John Millikin <jmillikin@gmail.com> |
| Maintainer | John Millikin <jmillikin@gmail.com> |
| Stability | experimental |
| Category | Network, Desktop |
| Home page | https://john-millikin.com/software/haskell-dbus/ |
| Bug tracker | mailto:jmillikin@gmail.com |
| Source repository | head: bzr branch https://john-millikin.com/branches/haskell-dbus/0.10/ this: bzr branch https://john-millikin.com/branches/haskell-dbus/0.10/ -r haskell-dbus_0.10.4 |
| Uploaded | Fri Nov 2 05:08:26 UTC 2012 by JohnMillikin |
| Distributions | Arch:0.10.12, Debian:0.10.11, Fedora:0.10.12, LTSHaskell:0.10.12, NixOS:0.10.12, Tumbleweed:0.10.12 |
| Downloads | 8652 total (45 in the last 30 days) |
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Downloads
- dbus-0.10.4.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (included in the package)