I guess what I do not understand is how the application gets the data
by executing the command. What I see in that implementation is simply a
return of a command to run with an existing file as an argument,
instead of a way to retrieve a new file.
The difference is that the former says "I have a <type>, what can I do
with it?" while the latter says "I want to do something with a <type>,
how/where can I get one?".
El Tue, 18 de Mar 2014 a las 8:45 PM, Akshay Shekher
<voldyman...@gmail.com> escribió:
The earlier implementation IIRC worked in the following way.
App -> contractor [give me a list if programs that handle file type x]
<- [program a b ... ..]
App asks the user to select one or selects one itself and
App -> Contractor [program Id x, for file/uri y]
<- [command string]
App executes this using execv or something similar.
The '->' is for dbus function calls and '<-' for return.
Dbus is just a protocol for doing interprocess communication so a
program/script can use contractor if it can use dbus.
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