On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 11:44 +0200, Manuel Yguel wrote: > Thanks a lot Dan, your explanations were very clear. > Thank to you I got a running example doing creation, connection, > disconnection and deletion of the settings. I attached the code I wrote. > It is not completely mature yet since it mixes c++ and C. But I intend > to put some orthodoxy in it later. > I have an other question, I have seen that the connection called "Test > of my" is still visible in the list of scanned networks displayed by the > network-manager-applet. I thought first that it was because the list was > not updated but it seems not to be the case. Worse: I am able to click > on it and it looks like it tries to activate it, however I think it does > not work. > Is this a problem related to the applet or did I miss to remove > something when managing the adhoc connection ?
Is the stale connection still visible in "nmcli dev wifi list" output? Is it also still visible in the "iwlist wlan0 scan" output? Dan > > Manuel > > > On 04/10/2014 05:52 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 14:44 +0200, Manuel Yguel wrote: > >> I have successfully created and deleted adhoc networks from the glib API > >> thanks to Dan help. However my test program suffers from one problem: > >> the network connection configurations get stored in the network manager > >> memory and pollute the user interface. Thus I try to call > >> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings.Connection.Delete for a certain > >> NMConnection object without any success so far. > >> I can see in the D-bus (with qdbusviewer) the configuration for a single > >> network connection and I am able to call the Delete method on it > >> (because I can see it appears when the setting configuration is recorded). > >> However I do not know how to get the number (x) in the path that appears at > >> org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/x > >> in order to create a proxy for that "Settings.Connection object" and > >> call the Delete method on it later. > >> First I would like to know if there is a way to get the path of the > >> object storing the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings.Connection > >> from the glib API ? > > When you add the connection to NetworkManager originally, NM will return > > to you the object path that you can use to work with the Connection > > object later. With the libnm-glib API, when you call: > > > > gboolean nm_remote_settings_add_connection (NMRemoteSettings *settings, > > NMConnection *connection, > > > > NMRemoteSettingsAddConnectionFunc callback, > > gpointer user_data); > > > > "callback" is called when the add is completed, and your callback has > > the prototype of: > > > > typedef void (*NMRemoteSettingsAddConnectionFunc) (NMRemoteSettings > > *settings, > > NMRemoteConnection > > *connection, > > GError *error, > > gpointer user_data); > > > > The NMRemoteConnection object (a subclass of NMConnection) represents > > the actual connection known by NM. You can throw away the NMConnection > > that you handed to nm_remote_settings_add_connection(), it is unchanged > > by the call. The NMRemoteConnection is the "live" object, which you can > > keep around and use later with functions like: > > > > void nm_remote_connection_delete (NMRemoteConnection *connection, > > NMRemoteConnectionResultFunc callback, > > gpointer user_data); > > > >> I was first thinking that it may be a NMSettingConnection object. I was > >> able to access it but I was only able to get the uuid or the human name > >> of the connection. > >> I also tried the nm_connection_get_path on the NMConnection object but I > >> get a NULL string. > >> I am quite stuck now and any help would be much appreciated. > > I think the issue is that you might still be using the NMConnection that > > you built up to send to NM with the add_connection() call. That object > > isn't consumed by add_connection(), but serves as a template and can be > > disposed after calling add_connection(). The NMRemoteConnection is what > > you want to use. > > > > I've committed some more documentation to libnm-glib's NMRemoteSettings > > object which describes this and hopefully helps you out. > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=2200687b0f92d553dc79e54b672069b2b704203d > > > > There are also some examples here, the ones you're interested in have > > "libnm-glib" in the name: > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/C/glib > > > > Let us know if you have further questions! > > > > Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > networkmanager-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
