kishoredbn / dbus-process-to-process

Messaging with Dbus in go and C++

Curious how dbus could be used for process to process communication,

This is a minimal example of a project with three applications. A client and server in C++ and a client in golang.

The Server listens on dbus for a message. ./build/server. The client sends a message to the server, ./build/client/client "hello world".

The server will now print hello world and tell the client thanks.

Building

Requirements

clang or gcc, make, cmake,and sdbus-cpp which is used as a high level dbus library.

Intructions

for detailed build instructions checkout the dockerfile which details how the project is built on arch linux.

Run

To test I suggest testing in docker-compose.

1. docker-compose build
2. in one terminal, docker-compose up
3. In another terminal, docker-compose exec dbuscpp /bin/bash -c "source .env && ./build/client 'hello world'" to test the C++ client or for golang docker-compose exec dbuscpp /bin/bash -c "source .env && ./go/src/client/dbus 'hello world'"