b2l-tools/lgi/samples/GDbus/list-system-services.lua

#! /usr/bin/env lua

local help = [[
Usage: lua list-system-services.lua [--session|--system]
List services on the system bus (default) or the session bus.
]]

--[[
This example is the rewrite of list-system-services.py in Lua.
Copyleft (C) 2012 Ildar Mulyukov
Original copyright follows:
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local lgi = require 'lgi'
local Gio = lgi.require 'Gio'

-- main(argv):
   local argv = {...}

   local factory = function()
      return Gio.bus_get_sync(Gio.BusType.SYSTEM)
   end

   if #argv > 1 then
        print(help)
        return -1
   else
      if #argv == 1 then
         if argv[1] == '--session' then
            factory = function()
               return Gio.bus_get_sync(Gio.BusType.SESSION)
            end
         else
            if argv[1] ~= '--system' then
               print(help)
               return -1
            end
         end
      end
   end

   -- Get a connection to the system or session bus as appropriate
   -- We're only using blocking calls, so don't actually need a main loop here
   local bus = factory()

   -- This could be done by calling bus.list_names(), but here's
   -- more or less what that means:

   -- Get a reference to the desktop bus' standard object, denoted
   -- by the path /org/freedesktop/DBus.
   -- dbus_object = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.DBus',
   --                      '/org/freedesktop/DBus')

   -- The object /org/freedesktop/DBus
   -- implements the 'org.freedesktop.DBus' interface
   -- dbus_iface = dbus.Interface(dbus_object, 'org.freedesktop.DBus')

   -- One of the member functions in the org.freedesktop.DBus interface
   -- is ListNames(), which provides a list of all the other services
   -- registered on this bus. Call it, and print the list.
   -- services = dbus_iface.ListNames()
   local var, err = bus:call_sync('org.freedesktop.DBus', 
      '/org/freedesktop/DBus',
      'org.freedesktop.DBus',
      'ListNames',
      nil,
      nil,
      Gio.DBusConnectionFlags.NONE,
      -1)
   -- We know that ListNames returns '(as)'
   local services = var[1].value

   -- services.sort() - is incorrect as GVariant is immutable
   for i = 1, #services do
      print (services[i])
   end