#! /usr/bin/python2.4 import gobject import dbus import dbus.service import dbus.glib # (Only if python binding version >= 0.41.0) class Obj(dbus.service.Object): """Sample object exported over D-Bus. """ # Initialize the dbus.service.Object with our "bus name" (i.e. the name # of our connection, not of the bus!) and the path identifying the # object within that connection. def __init__(self, bus_name, object_path): dbus.service.Object.__init__(self, bus_name, object_path) # Anotation: export following method on D-Bus, under given interface @dbus.service.method('org.me.HelloInterface') def hi(self, text): # Return value will be sent to the invoker across D-Bus. print "hello here" + text return "Hello there" @dbus.service.method('org.me.HelloInterface') def fail(self): # Exceptions, too, are propagated to the invoker across D-Bus. print "ohh, this fails" raise Exception, 'Aaaaargh!' # Find a bus to export our object on--in this case, the user's session bus. session_bus = dbus.SessionBus() # Request a well-known name for our connection: "org.me" bus_name = dbus.service.BusName('org.me', bus=session_bus) # Create an Obj, exporting it under the object path '/org/me/test' obj = Obj(bus_name, '/org/me/test') # Enter main event loop gobject.MainLoop().run()