Re: Porting KDE3 NetworkManager to 0.9

[Robert Xu <robxu9 gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 17:48, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 14:15 -0400, Robert Xu wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Given the fact that I am relatively new at this stuff, forgive me if I
>> am asking very noobish questions...
>>
>> I am trying to figure out how to implement the Register/Unregister
>> functions and the SecretAgent interfaces.
>
> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/09/ref-migrating.html
>
> has more information on the architecture changes in 0.9.  One big one is
> that the session applets (knetworkmanager, nm-applet, etc) no longer
> store whole connections; they only store secrets.  Thus they become
> secret agents instead of full settings storage services.  They no longer
> need to advertise a D-Bus service.
>
>> - Where would I implement Register/Unregister? When the program starts
>> up/closes down?
>
> Yes, whenever the thing that's going to respond to secrets requests (ie,
> the secret agent) starts up and shuts down.

So at program start/end...

>
>>     - (what c++ call do I make to do that? >>;)
>
> Probably the Qt D-Bus bindings, which I think is what the old KDE stuff used.
>
>> - For SecretAgent interfaces, KNetworkManager has a storage file that
>> handles this stuff. Should this all be depreciated for NM's new
>> handling?
>
> Not necessarily; you'd still need to store secrets somewhere, and the
> storage files are probably as good as any.  But you wont' need to store
> whole connections; just secrets.  So at a minimum you'll need to store
> the secret itself, the key name of the secret (ie 'psk' or 'password' or
> whatever), and the UUID of the connection the secret is for.

So the old storage backend just has to be modified to store secrets
instead of connections...

>
>>     - (again, how do you call the functions in c++? relatively new to
>> dbus calling in c++ >>;)
>
> Usually with Qt/KDE you'd use the Qt D-Bus bindings to do anything D-Bus
> related.  Unfortunately I don't know much about those, but others on
> this list (like Will Stephenson and Eckhart Woerner) know the Qt/KDE
> side of things.
>

Ok, thanks!



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