Re: Add new conntion with DBus API

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Wednesday 05 of May 2010 11:28:11 Pablo Martí Gamboa wrote:
> On 5 May 2010 10:53, Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 of May 2010 07:39:07 Nguyen Canh Toan wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Currently, I have a purpose of programmatically add & remove connection
> > > configuration through DBus interface
> > > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Connection.
> > > 
> > > I found an API Delete() on
> > > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Connection but I can't find what
> > > function stuff to create new connection.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Did anyone experience with this issue? Could you please to share it to
> > 
> > me?
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Toan Nguyen
> > 
> > You search for AddConnection() method of
> > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings interface.
> > 
> > For a simple python example see:
> > 
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/p
> > ython/add-
> > system-connection.py<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkM
> > anager/tree/examples/python/add-%0Asystem-connection.py>
> > 
> > More complex example can be found here:
> > http://markmail.org/message/2xfwvjqjovu4fk2j
> > 
> > For specification of settings parameters
> > see:
> > http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/settings-spec-08.html
> 
> Wow, I didn't know about this one, thought that gconf was the only was to
> edit the connection. When was this added?

It's been there for some time now.
The commit is 0d69dfe39ef61b42b2024c7fbd8bbad9e9c6d164 from 23.7.2009.

Jirka