I’m building an Python application that has to connect and disconnect from Wifi on linux box. It's my very first experience with d-bus and gobject.
This daemon runs a gobject.MainLoop. Once a timeout_add_seconds awake (triggers by an action of user in GUI), I have to disconnect current running Wifi and connect to a new one:
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
from networkmanager import NetworkManager
import networkmanager.applet.settings as settings
from networkmanager.applet import USER_SERVICE
from networkmanager.applet.service import NetworkManagerUserSettings, NetworkManagerSettings
import time
import memcache
import gobject
loop = gobject.MainLoop()
nm = NetworkManager()
dummy_handler = lambda *args: None
def get_device(dev_spec, hint):
candidates = []
devs = NetworkManager().GetDevices()
for dev in devs:
if dev._settings_type() == hint:
candidates.append(dev)
if len(candidates) == 1:
return candidates[0]
for dev in devs:
if dev["Interface"] == dev_spec:
return dev
print "Device '%s' not found" % dev_spec
return None
def kill_allconnections():
connections=nm['ActiveConnections']
for c in connections:
print c.object_path
nm.DeactivateConnection(c.object_path)
class Wifi(object):
def connect(self, ssid, security="open", password=None):
"Connects to given Wifi network"
c=None # connection settings
us = NetworkManagerUserSettings([])
if security=="open":
c = settings.WiFi(ssid)
elif security=="wep":
c = settings.Wep(ssid, password)
elif security=="wpa":
c = settings.WpaPsk(ssid, password)
else:
raise AttributeError("invalid security model '%s'"%security)
svc = USER_SERVICE
svc_conn = us.addCon(c.conmap)
hint = svc_conn.settings["connection"]["type"]
dev = get_device("", hint)
appath = "/"
nm.ActivateConnection(svc, svc_conn, dev, appath, reply_handler=dummy_handler, error_handler=dummy_handler)
def change_network_settings():
key="station:network:change"
change=cache.get(key)
if change is not None:
print "DISCONNECT"
kill_allconnections()
print "CHANGE SETTINGS"
wifi=cache.get(key+':wifi')
if wifi is not None:
ssid=cache.get(key+':wifi:ssid')
security=cache.get(key+':wifi:security')
password=cache.get(key+':wifi:password')
print "SWITCHING TO %s"%ssid
Wifi().connect(ssid, security, password)
cache.delete(key)
return True
def mainloop():
gobject.timeout_add_seconds(1, change_network_settings)
try:
loop.run()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
loop.quit()
if __name__=="__main__":
mainloop()
This runs perfectly for a first connection (read : the box is not connected, daemon is ran and box connects flawlessly to Wifi). Issue is when I try to connect to another Wifi : kill_allconnections() is ran silently, and connect method raises an exception on nm.ActivateConnection:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "stationd.py", line 40, in change_network_settings
Wifi().connect(ssid, security, password)
File "/home/biopredictive/station/lib/network.py", line 88, in connect
us = NetworkManagerUserSettings([])
File "/home/biopredictive/station/lib/networkmanager/applet/service/__init__.py", line 71, in __init__
super(NetworkManagerUserSettings, self).__init__(conmaps, USER_SERVICE)
File "/home/biopredictive/station/lib/networkmanager/applet/service/__init__.py", line 33, in __init__
dbus.service.Object.__init__(self, bus, opath, bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 480, in __init__
self.add_to_connection(conn, object_path)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 571, in add_to_connection
self._fallback)
KeyError: "Can't register the object-path handler for '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings': there is already a handler"
It looks like my former connection didn’t release all its resources ?
Would you please help ?
