Re: [ANN] L2DBUS - Lua-2-DBus Binding for D-Bus

[David Burgess <dburgess@...>]

Good work!

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Glenn Schmottlach
<gschmottlach@gmail.com> wrote:
> I certainly hope the L2DBUS binding fits your use-case and would appreciate
> any feedback you can provide. We intend to use it heavily for much of our
> middle-ware development on embedded Linux platforms. I love Lua but was
> always a bit disappointed (and surprised) that there wasn't a more complete
> D-Bus binding for the language like what is available for Python and others.
> I hope this package will continue to evolve to fill that niche for Lua. I
> can certainly understand why you might investigate using Vala because using
> the GObject framework directly from 'C' can become tedious.
>
> Glenn
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Tiago Katcipis <katcipis@inf.ufsc.br>
> wrote:
>>
>> From your description i can see everything i wanted on Lua regarding DBus
>> since ever and never got the time to do it. I work on heavily
>> DBus/GDBus/Glib based projects and now it seems that Lua is an option again
>> when writing new DBus services (right now I'm playing a little with Vala).
>>
>> Thanks a lot for sharing this.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tiago Katcipis
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Glenn Schmottlach
>> <gschmottlach@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am pleased to announce the release of a new MIT licensed Lua binding to
>>> Linux's D-Bus IPC library.
>>>
>>> The development of this binding was inspired by others and has been under
>>> development for quite some time. Hopefully those of you who utilize Lua on
>>> Linux platforms (particularly embedded) will appreciate having complete
>>> unfettered access to D-Bus for your development needs.
>>>
>>> The binding currently offers these features:
>>>
>>> * Single threaded but can be utilized with coroutines
>>> * Supports multiple "main loop" implementations: currently libev[1] and
>>> Glib are supported
>>>      - Other foreign main loops (qt, evas_core, etc...) could be added
>>> with some work
>>> * Supports both synchronous and asynchronous (blocking/non-blocking)
>>> client/server implementations
>>> * Built on top of the battle-tested Freedesktop D-Bus reference library
>>> * Integrates nicely with the Lua libev binding[2]
>>> * Supports *all* D-Bus types (including the container types like
>>> structures, dictionaries, arrays, Int64, etc...)
>>> * Supports D-Bus Introspection
>>>      - Dynamically generates proxy bindings based on introspection XML
>>> data
>>> * Provides many high/low level APIs
>>> * Fully documented API courtesy of LDoc[3] (thank you Steve D.)
>>> * Developed and tested with Lua 5.1
>>>      - Compiles cleanly under Lua 5.2 but I haven't done testing on that
>>> platform (yet)
>>>      - Should be compatible with LuaJIT
>>> * Limited dependencies and small footprint
>>>      - Does *not* require Glib (no dependencies on GObject)
>>> * Already supports cross-compiling (tested on ARM)
>>> * Several test applications that demonstrate various features
>>>
>>> The L2DBUS module consists of both Lua code and a 'C' module that
>>> utilizes a secondary 'C' library (CDBUS[4]) that partially wraps the D-Bus
>>> reference library. For those of you involved with embedded work, the CDBUS
>>> project provides a minimal, primitive wrapper around D-Bus that might prove
>>> useful for some applications. Unfortunately, it's not heavily documented at
>>> this time.
>>>
>>> This is the 1.0.0 release so there may be some rough spots and bugs that
>>> are still undetected. Time permitting, I plan on continuing to develop this
>>> binding and hope the Lua community will be generous with suggestions or help
>>> identifying issues (patches are appreciated as well ;-).
>>>
>>> Finally, I would like to thank my employer (XS-Embedded - www.xse.com)
>>> for sponsoring this work and allowing me to contribute it completely
>>> unencumbered to the larger Lua community. I hope it proves to be useful for
>>> some of you.
>>>
>>> L2BUS Links:
>>>
>>> Project:      https://github.com/xs-embedded-llc/l2dbus
>>> API Docs:  http://xs-embedded-llc.github.io/l2dbus/api/index.html
>>>
>>> References:
>>>
>>> [1] http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html
>>> [2] https://github.com/brimworks/lua-ev
>>> [3] https://github.com/stevedonovan/LDoc
>>> [4] https://github.com/xs-embedded-llc/cdbus
>>>
>>
>



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David Burgess