On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:16:12AM -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote: > On 05/06/2014 09:34 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote: > >On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:30:42AM -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote: > >>On 05/06/2014 03:52 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote: > >>>On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:21:37AM +0200, Sumit Bose wrote: > >>>>>It's easy to call DBus from python, java and friends. There's no need to > >>>>>pass that interaction through the bottleneck (albeit simple bottleneck) > >>>>>that this library provides. At the current time this library is not > >>>>>thread-safe, not loop-integratable, not-abi-extensible etc. It would > >>>>>need to look significantly different to provide the foundation for what > >>>>>you provide there. And why? The callers you suggest already have solid > >>>>>ways to call DBus. It's sssd/tevent that doesn't. > >>>>I agree with Stef here. Currently we have not planned bindings for those > >>>>languages for the simple library. The intended users with the simple > >>>>library are existing/legacy applications written in C which might be > >>>>happier with a "classical" interface. Due to the nature of the languages > >>>>I would expect that applications written in Ruby, Python or Java will > >>>>find it more easy to use the DBUS API directly. > >>>> > >>>>bye, > >>>>Sumit > >>>+1 this is what we've envisioned from the start. The bindings would go > >>>directly do the InfoPipe interface, that's also why we're spending so > >>>much time on making them work as one would expect from a full DBus API, > >>>with getsetters etc. But some users (like Nikos earlier on the list) just > >>>wanted a very /simple/ get-key-value-pair API and this library can be it. > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>sssd-devel mailing list > >>>sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > >>>https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel > >>You lost me. > >>Who is the consumer of the library then other than one apache module? > >The apache module calls DBus directly. I think the confusion comes from > >the fact that the apache modules call /functions/ from the DBus API that > >we developed while we're fleshing out the objects. > > > >Right now, Pavel would use the library and IIRC Sumit would as well. > For what? OpenLMI? And for...?
libwbclient-sssd, the replacement for libwbclient which calls SSSD instead of winbind. bye, Sumit > > > > >>Do we have a design page where it is clearly spelled out whom we are > >>targeting with this effort? > >https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/DBusSimpleAPI > >_______________________________________________ > >sssd-devel mailing list > >sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > >https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel > > > -- > Thank you, > Dmitri Pal > > Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio > Red Hat, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > sssd-devel mailing list > sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel _______________________________________________ sssd-devel mailing list sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel
