Main event loop in networkmanager.

[Anders Gnistrup <agn datarespons dk>]

Hi

FIrst post to this maillist.

My problem is that I need to receive signal from the networkmanager.
This is done using connect_to_signal and it seems quite easy.
But when testing I get the error message -> create a glib event loop.
And thats My problem. I already have a loop.

The short description of my application is a interface able to configure some wireless network interfaces from a remote host using a XMLrpc from twisted. (There is no screen on target platform)

the application loop is a XMLrpc interface (reactor), where several rpc is available. Some of these graps information from the networkmanager dbus interface. This is OK, because it is a synchronous API. But when adding a new connection (using addConnection), the succes/fail is a signal (networkmanager version 0.84). So I need to create a asynchronous loop. (I know this is changed in networkmanager version 0.9)

So I have two solutions:
1) Tell the networkmanger signal to use my loop. (seems impossible, if please tell me how)
2) Create a second thread and start a loop using:
   from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
   DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
   additional code ......
   loop = gobject.MainLoop()
   loop.run

The second solution creates new problems. I need to make data thread safe, and there is no need for two thread. It's only signals!

I have searched the net for a solution for (1), but I can't find any
(2) is possible but does not seems "right"

Regards Anders Gnsitrup