NM api from python

[Rémi Cardona <remi cardona free fr>]

Hi all

This question might also interest Brian Millett with his very recent 
thread about the NM api.

I'm currently writing a python/glade interface to NM to try a different 
approach for the GUI. (I'm not 100% sure a notification icon is the best 
way to go, so I want to try something else before complaining :))

For the NM dbus api, I found this on the web
http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/NetworkManager%20DBUS%20API.txt

I'm not sure if it's either too old or too new (I use NM-0.5.1) but not 
all the info in there is correct. Having this kind of document either in 
CVS or on a website (found it through google ...) is clearly a good idea.

Now I'm having some issues with dbus in python

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        self.bus = dbus.SystemBus()
        self.NetworkManager_obj = self.bus.get_object( 
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager', '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager')
        self.NetworkManager = dbus.Interface(self.NetworkManager_obj, 
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager')

        self.Devices = []
        for device_path in self.NetworkManager.getDevices():
            self.Devices.append( dbus.Interface( self.bus.get_object( 
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager', device_path), 
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Devices'))

        self.Devices.reverse()

        for device in self.Devices:
            print "<device>"
            print "\t getName() : " , device.getName()
            print "</device>"

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The problem I have is that it will read the correct values for the first 
device (eth0) and then it'll take about 30 seconds to read the values 
from the second device (eth1). I added self.Devices.reverse() to try a 
different device first, but to no avail.

So I'm not sure whether it's a dbus/python or NM issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Rémi