About DBusTL
DBusTL is an easy do to use, extensible C++ wrapper for D-Bus that makes the use of D-Bus with plain C++ easy.
For more help, including code source samples, see the Online Documentation.
Though already quite usefull, DBusTL is still in its infancy, and therefore interface might change at any time before 1.0 release.
Important note: To be used with the most elegant syntax, DBusTL requires a cutting edge C++ feature, that is currently only available with gcc 4.3 and upper. Use of older versions of gcc is possible, but will make the syntax a little more convoluted.
Project status
What's there:
- Easy consumption of D-Bus services (client side D-Bus), provided you do not intend to receive signals.
- Mapping of D-Bus types to standard STL containers.
- Ability to receive signals when using Glib main loop.
- Support representation of any struct or class as D-Bus struct.
- Usable with or without C++ exceptions.
What's not there (yet):
- Only glib main loop support is provided here.
- Documentation of the way to integrate mainloop.
- Server side support (exposing your own services on the bus).
Roadmap
FutureThoughts page lists how i'd like to see DBusTL move on from here. However due to the very limited spare time i have to work on this projet, i cannot make any commitment to how fast thing will get in shape.
News
June 6th, 2009 0.4.0 is out. This is a bugfix/cleanup release:
- Fixed building with gcc 4.4
- Fixed deserialization of unsigned char type, that would abort.
- Internal code refactoring and cleanup
- Some minor API changes regarding custom structs and compat C++ mode
- Support for (de)serialisation of STL containers with user-provided memory allocators
- API incompatible change: Renamed ServerProxy as ObjectProxy
April 7th, 2009 0.3.0 is out. This release adds the following:
- removes dependancy on dbus-glib for main loop support.
- provides alternate DBusTL libraries built without C++ exceptions support.
- more documentation has been written.
March 24th, 2009 After 9 months of beeing kept prisoner on my own PC, i finally found time to push the beast on google code :-). So 0.2.0 is out the door, see the 5 minutes guide to DBusTL.
