DBus Spy Integration

• Status: Completed

Problem

Often during development, a developer needs to look at a DBus service to see how to communicate with it. It would be nice if we could integrate d-feet with Builder to make this a bit simpler.

Goals

• To give quick access to bus information

Anti-Goals

Affected Modules

Interfaces

• No new interfaces are necessary

Risks

• Spending too much time on this minor feature.

Implementation Details

• We need this in C because d-feet is just too slow. The org.freedesktop.systemd1 bus name takes forever to load.

• We need this to be low in memory usage because a lot of strings are parsed from peers.

• Use a custom GtkTreeModel for browsing the paths

• Use a stringchunk to share pages of memory for strings

Notes

We'll eventually be merging this into d-feet.