SD_BUS_MESSAGE_NEW_METHOD_CALL(3)

NAME
sd_bus_message_new_method_call, sd_bus_message_new_method_return - Create a method call message

SYNOPSIS

#include <elogind/sd-bus.h>

int sd_bus_message_new_method_call(sd_bus *bus, sd_bus_message **m, const char *destination, const char *path, const char *interface, const char *member);

int sd_bus_message_new_method_return(sd_bus_message *call, sd_bus_message **m);

DESCRIPTION

The sd_bus_message_new_method_call() function creates a new bus message object that encapsulates a D-Bus method call, and returns it in the m output parameter. The call will be made on the destination destination, path path, on the interface interface, member member.

Briefly, the destination is a dot-separated name that identifies a service connected to the bus. The path is a slash-separated identifier of an object within the destination that resembles a file system path. The meaning of this path is defined by the destination. The interface is a dot-separated name that resembles a Java interface name that identifies a group of methods and signals supported by the object identified by path. Methods and signals are collectively called members and are identified by a simple name composed of ASCII letters, numbers, and underscores. See the D-Bus Tutorial[1] for an in-depth explanation.

The destination parameter may be NULL. The interface parameter may be NULL, if the destination has only a single member with the given name and there is no ambiguity if the interface name is omitted.

Note that this is a low level interface. See sd_bus_call_method(3) for a more convenient way of calling D-Bus methods.

The sd_bus_message_new_method_return() function creates a new bus message object that is a reply to the method call call and returns it in the m output parameter. The call parameter must be a method call message. The sender of call is used as the destination.

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return a non-negative integer. On failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.

  Errors

Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

-EINVAL
    The output parameter m is NULL.

    The destination parameter is non-null and is not a valid D-Bus service name ("org.somewhere.Something"), the path parameter is not a valid D-Bus path ("/an/object/path"), the interface parameter is non-null and is not a valid D-Bus interface name ("an.interface.name"), or the member parameter is not a valid D-Bus member ("Name").

    The call parameter is not a method call object.

-ENOTCONN
    The bus parameter bus is NULL or the bus is not connected.

-ENOMEM
    Memory allocation failed.

-EPERM
    The call parameter is not sealed.

-EOPNOTSUPP
    The call message does not have a cookie.

NOTES

These APIs are implemented as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the libelogind pkg-config(1) file.

SEE ALSO

elogind(1), sd-bus(3), sd_bus_call(3), sd_bus_call_method(3), sd_bus_path_encode(3)

NOTES

1.  D-Bus Tutorial
    https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-tutorial.html#concepts