[erlang-questions] erlang D-Bus implementation ?

[Michael Truog]

On 11/27/2015 08:28 AM, Jean Parpaillon wrote:
> Hi all,
> There have been several tentative to have a pure erlang implementation
> of D-Bus RPC system, most of them forks of (unmaintained) http://source
> forge.net/projects/dbus-erlang/
>
> I have also forked it some years ago and use it in another project. I
> can't say it's perfectly operational but at least for consuming D-Bus
> services it works. Exposing D-Bus services is not possible. The
> original erlang-dbus was proposing a gen_dbus behaviour for that but I
> preferred to focus on robust service consuming first.
>
> My version is there: https://github.com/lizenn/erlang-dbus/
>
> TODO list:
> - documentation ;)
> - testing: test infra is operational (with travis-ci) but coverage is
> really low
> - gen_dbus coding
> - well know interfaces coding: Properties (partly coded in
> dbus_properties_proxy), ObjectManager, ...
>
> In a far future, we could imagine OTP to include it, as DBus is used
> for many services and as cros-language RPC system. The only problem
> regarding OTP is most DBus implementations runs on top of UNIX sockets,
> which requires platform dependant code. OTP version could be
> operational with TCP sockets (implemented in erlang-dbus), with an
> option of communicating through UNIX socket with ports.
>
> Is anybody interested in contributing ?
You can track UNIX socket support at https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/612 .