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authorWilliam Jon McCann <mccann@jhu.edu>2007-03-13 03:42:04 -0400
committerWilliam Jon McCann <mccann@jhu.edu>2007-03-13 03:42:04 -0400
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add the last bits of spec framework
The spec is the introspection format extended with docs. There are tools to build docbook and strip the docs to make dbus introspect xml.
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<node name="/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager"
+ xmlns:doc="http://www.freedesktop.org/dbus/1.0/doc.dtd"
+>
+
+ <interface name="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager">
+ <method name="OpenSession">
+ <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" value=""/>
+ <arg name="cookie" direction="out" type="s">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The secret cookie that is used to identify the new session</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>This method requests that a new <doc:ref type="interface" to="Session">Session</doc:ref>
+ be created for the calling process. The properties of this new Session are set automatically
+ from information collected about the calling process.
+ </doc:para>
+ <doc:para>This new session exists until the calling process disconnects from the system bus or
+ calls <doc:ref type="method" to="Manager.CloseSession">CloseSession()</doc:ref>.
+ </doc:para>
+ <doc:para>It is the responsibility of the calling process to set the environment variable
+ XDG_SESSION_COOKIE to the value of the returned cookie. This cookie should only
+ be made available to child processes of the caller so that they may be identified
+ as members of this session.
+ </doc:para>
+ <doc:para>See this simple example:
+ <doc:example language="c" title="simple example"><doc:code>
+ DBusError error;
+ DBusMessage *message;
+ DBusMessage *reply;
+
+ message = dbus_message_new_method_call ("org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit",
+ "/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager",
+ "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager",
+ "OpenSession");
+ if (message == NULL) {
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ dbus_error_init (&amp;error);
+ reply = dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block (connector->connection,
+ message,
+ -1,
+ &amp;error);
+ if (reply == NULL) {
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ dbus_error_init (&amp;error);
+ if (! dbus_message_get_args (reply,
+ &amp;error,
+ DBUS_TYPE_STRING, &amp;cookie,
+ DBUS_TYPE_INVALID)) {
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ </doc:code></doc:example></doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ <doc:seealso><doc:ref type="method" to="Manager.OpenSessionWithParameters">OpenSessionWithParameters()</doc:ref></doc:seealso>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+ <method name="OpenSessionWithParameters">
+ <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" value=""/>
+ <arg name="parameters" direction="in" type="a(sv)">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>An array of sets of property names and values</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <arg name="cookie" direction="out" type="s">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The secret cookie that is used to identify the new session</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>This method requests that a new <doc:ref type="interface" to="Session">Session</doc:ref>
+ be created for the calling process. The properties of this new Session are from the
+ parameters provided.
+ </doc:para>
+ <doc:para>This new session exists until the calling process disconnects from the system bus or
+ calls <doc:ref type="method" to="Manager.CloseSession">CloseSession()</doc:ref>.
+ </doc:para>
+ <doc:para>It is the responsibility of the calling process to set the environment variable
+ XDG_SESSION_COOKIE to the value of the returned cookie. This cookie should only
+ be made available to child processes of the caller so that they may be identified
+ as members of this session.
+ </doc:para>
+ <doc:para>See the <doc:ref type="interface" to="Session">Session</doc:ref> properties for a list of valid parameters.</doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ <doc:seealso><doc:ref type="interface" to="Session">org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session</doc:ref></doc:seealso>
+ <doc:permission>This method is restricted to privileged users by D-Bus policy.</doc:permission>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+ <method name="CloseSession">
+ <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" value=""/>
+ <arg name="cookie" direction="in" type="s">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The secret cookie that is used to identify the session</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <arg name="result" direction="out" type="b">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>Whether the session was successfully closed</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>This method is used to close the session identified by the supplied cookie.
+ </doc:para>
+ <doc:para>The session can only be closed by the same process that opened the session.
+ </doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+
+ <method name="GetSeats">
+ <arg name="seats" direction="out" type="ao">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>an array of Seat IDs</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>This gets a list of all the <doc:ref type="interface" to="Seat">Seats</doc:ref>
+ that are currently present on the system.</doc:para>
+ <doc:para>Each Seat ID is an D-Bus object path for the object that implements the
+ <doc:ref type="interface" to="Seat">Seat</doc:ref> interface.</doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ <doc:seealso><doc:ref type="interface" to="Seat">org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Seat</doc:ref></doc:seealso>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+
+ <method name="GetSessionForCookie">
+ <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" value=""/>
+ <arg name="cookie" direction="in" type="s">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The secret cookie that is used to identify the session</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <arg name="ssid" direction="out" type="o">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The object identifier for the current session</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>Returns the session ID that is associated with the specified cookie.
+ </doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+ <method name="GetSessionForUnixProcess">
+ <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" value=""/>
+ <arg name="pid" direction="in" type="u">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The POSIX process ID</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <arg name="ssid" direction="out" type="o">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The object identifier for the current session</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>Attempts to determine the session ID for the specified
+ POSIX process ID (pid).
+ </doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+ <method name="GetCurrentSession">
+ <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" value=""/>
+ <arg name="ssid" direction="out" type="o">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The object identifier for the current session</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>Attempts to determine the session ID that the caller belongs to.
+ </doc:para>
+ <doc:para>See this example of using dbus-send:
+ <doc:example language="shell" title="shell example"><doc:code>
+ dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit \
+ --type=method_call --print-reply --reply-timeout=2000 \
+ /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager \
+ org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GetCurrentSession
+ </doc:code></doc:example></doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+ <method name="GetSessionsForUser">
+ <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" value=""/>
+ <arg name="uid" direction="in" type="u">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>User identification</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <arg name="sessions" direction="out" type="ao">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>an array of Session IDs</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>This gets a list of all the <doc:ref type="interface" to="Session">Sessions</doc:ref>
+ that are currently open for the specified user.</doc:para>
+ <doc:para>Each Session ID is an D-Bus object path for the object that implements the
+ <doc:ref type="interface" to="Session">Session</doc:ref> interface.</doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+
+ <method name="GetSystemIdleHint">
+ <arg name="idle_hint" type="b" direction="out">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The value of the system-idle-hint</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>Returns TRUE if the <doc:ref type="property" to="Session:idle-hint">idle-hint</doc:ref>
+ property of every open session is TRUE or if there are no open sessions.
+ </doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+ <method name="GetSystemIdleSinceHint">
+ <arg name="iso8601_datetime" type="s" direction="out">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>An ISO 8601 format date-type string</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>Returns an ISO 8601 date-time string that corresponds to
+ the time of the last change of the system-idle-hint.
+ </doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </method>
+
+ <signal name="SeatAdded">
+ <arg name="sid" type="o">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The Seat ID for the added seat</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>Emitted when a Seat has been added to the system.
+ </doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </signal>
+ <signal name="SeatRemoved">
+ <arg name="sid" type="o">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The Seat ID for the removed seat</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>Emitted when a Seat has been removed from the system.
+ </doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </signal>
+ <signal name="SystemIdleHintChanged">
+ <arg name="hint" type="b">
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:summary>The value of the system-idle-hint</doc:summary>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </arg>
+ <doc:doc>
+ <doc:description>
+ <doc:para>Emitted when the value of the system-idle-hint has changed.
+ </doc:para>
+ </doc:description>
+ </doc:doc>
+ </signal>
+ </interface>
+</node>