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$ make org.freedesktop.systemd1.h
  GEN      org.freedesktop.systemd1.h
nih-dbus-tool:marshal.c:172: Not reached assertion failed in marshal
/bin/bash: line 4: 12193 Aborted                 (core dumped) /usr/bin/nih-dbus-tool --package=upstart --  mode=proxy --prefix=systemd --default-interface=org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager --output=org.freedesktop.systemd1.h org.freedesktop.systemd1.xml

that seems to explode upon seeing DBUS_TYPE_VARIANT, looking at the code, indeed there is no support to generate that. Not a blocker for me, for now.

better late than never

I'm not sure if it's deliberate or not, but can license be changed to LGPL-2.1+ or GPL-2.0+? Instead of current GPL-2.0-only ?

I just can't find examples nor a manual... could you... ?

Hi Scott,

We're using NIH for https://github.com/cgmanager/cgmanager. However, we need to use SCM_CRED/SCM_CREDENTIALS which is not supported by dbus on Linux.

We were therefore wondering about the possibility of adding a new D-Bus annotation to nih-dbus-tool say "client must send SCM creds with this method". FWICS, annotations only affect the tools that generate bindings code but are also some sort of loose contract between the D-Bus client and the server.

The D-Bus spec only seems to touch on the precise meaning of annotations very lightly unless I'm missing something. The D-Bus tutorial does cover them in a little more detail, but it seems unreasonable to consider the tutorial part of the official spec to me.

What the spec does refer to is "well-known" annotations which implies that other annotations may be possible? Indeed, I notice that although NIH supports async methods it does so using "com.netsplit.Nih.Method.Async" rather than the semi-well-known "org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" (semi since it's not in the spec, but is in the tutorial!)

Can you offer any advice or insight into this?

Cheers,

James.