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| author | Robert Günzler <r@gnzler.io> | 2025-10-23 16:29:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Robert Günzler <r@gnzler.io> | 2025-11-12 16:06:42 +0100 |
| commit | 509da8ebd1cb4f76eae0ffed179b9af1be73f8dd (patch) | |
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add varlink note
Signed-off-by: Robert Günzler <r@gnzler.io>
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diff --git a/src/inc/varlink.htm b/src/inc/varlink.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7de95de --- /dev/null +++ b/src/inc/varlink.htm @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +<!-- Generated file, you may edit and discard varlink.md :) --> +<p><a href="https://varlink.org" target="_blank">varlink</a> is a neat +little standard for doing debuggable IPC. It takes some of the nice +properties of DBUS, like the introspection capabilities, and combines +them with simple standard tools/technologies in the form of unix sockets +and JSON.</p> +<p>For C, there is a library by <a href="https://emersion.fr" +target="_blank">emersion</a> called vali, which does pretty much all you +need to get going: <a +href="https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/announcing-vali/" class="uri" +target="_blank">https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/announcing-vali/</a></p> +<p>When you have written your service, here is how to interact with it +just using standard utils, socat and jq:</p> +<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">cat</span> <span class="op"><<-EOF</span> <span class="kw">|</span> <span class="ex">jq</span> <span class="at">--raw-output0</span> <span class="kw">|</span> <span class="ex">socat</span> STDIO UNIX-CONNECT:<span class="st">"</span><span class="va">$SOCKET</span><span class="st">"</span> <span class="kw">|</span> <span class="ex">jq</span></span> +<span id="cb1-2"><a href="#cb1-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="st"> {</span></span> +<span id="cb1-3"><a href="#cb1-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="st"> "method": "org.varlink.service.GetInfo",</span></span> +<span id="cb1-4"><a href="#cb1-4" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="st"> }</span></span> +<span id="cb1-5"><a href="#cb1-5" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="op">EOF</span></span></code></pre></div> +<p>This is equivalent to using the varlink cli tool and running: +<code>varlink info $SOCKET</code></p> +<div class="sourceCode" id="cb2"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb2-1"><a href="#cb2-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">cat</span> <span class="op"><<-EOF</span> <span class="kw">|</span> <span class="ex">jq</span> <span class="at">--raw-output0</span> <span class="kw">|</span> <span class="ex">socat</span> STDIO UNIX-CONNECT:<span class="st">"</span><span class="va">$SOCKET</span><span class="st">"</span> <span class="kw">|</span> <span class="ex">jq</span></span> +<span id="cb2-2"><a href="#cb2-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="st"> {</span></span> +<span id="cb2-3"><a href="#cb2-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="st"> "method": "org.varlink.service.GetInterfaceDescription",</span></span> +<span id="cb2-4"><a href="#cb2-4" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="st"> "parameters": {</span></span> +<span id="cb2-5"><a href="#cb2-5" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="st"> "interface": "com.example.Foobar"</span></span> +<span id="cb2-6"><a href="#cb2-6" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="st"> }</span></span> +<span id="cb2-7"><a href="#cb2-7" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="st"> }</span></span> +<span id="cb2-8"><a href="#cb2-8" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="op">EOF</span></span></code></pre></div> +<p>This will return the service interface (if the service listening at +the socket actually implements it.</p> +<p>Note the use of <code>jq --raw-output0</code>. It is possible to omit +the jq invocations, the input JSON data should be followed by a NUL +byte.</p> |