Re: nm_device_disconnect

[Manuel Yguel <manuel yguel gmail com>]

I took a look at the sources of NetworkManager and I noted that there are several files called nm-device.h 
that offer different interfaces. The one exported in libnm-glib does not expose as much functionality as I 
need. In particular the following function is not provided:

gboolean nm_device_disconnect (NMDevice *device, GError **error)
{
        NMDevicePrivate *priv;

        g_return_val_if_fail (device != NULL, FALSE);
        g_return_val_if_fail (NM_IS_DEVICE (device), FALSE);

        priv = NM_DEVICE_GET_PRIVATE (device);
        if (priv->state <= NM_DEVICE_STATE_DISCONNECTED) {
                g_set_error_literal (error, NM_DEVICE_ERROR, NM_DEVICE_ERROR_NOT_ACTIVE,
                                     "Cannot disconnect an inactive device.");
                return FALSE;
        }

        priv->autoconnect_inhibit = TRUE;    
        nm_device_state_changed (device,
                                 NM_DEVICE_STATE_DISCONNECTED,
                                 NM_DEVICE_STATE_REASON_USER_REQUESTED);
        return TRUE;
}

why is that so ?  I wonder if this function is not exposed due to a synchronization problem with the GUI.

 

-- Manuel


On 04/01/2014 08:16 PM, Dan Winship wrote:
> On 04/01/2014 01:18 PM, Manuel Yguel wrote:
> > however in the include directory of libnm-glib the file nm-device.h
> > contains only the following function:
> >                     void nm_device_disconnect (NMDevice *device,
> > NMDeviceDeactivateFn callback, gpointer user_data);
> >
> > I tried to use the last one with a dummy callback function and with a
> > pointer to a NMClient object but it did not disconnect the network.
> >
> > Thanks for any hint or pointer.
> A libnm-glib method that takes a callback is most likely asynchronous.
> So you need to call nm_device_disconnect() and then run the main loop
> until the callback gets called.
>
> -- Dan