Re: Creating NetworkManager connections via DBus API

[Stuart Longland <stuartl vrt com au>]

Hi Dan,
On 08/07/14 02:55, Dan Williams wrote:
> As thomas already mentioned, these should be covered in the API
> documentation that he linked.  Note that IPv4 addresses are arrays of
> uint32 (address/prefix/optional gateway) and IPv4 routes are too
> (network/prefix/next-hop/metric).  The address/network/next-hop IP
> address members are network-byte-order.  So the code in Python to push
> that into the dict that can be sent over D-Bus is something like this,
> taken from:
[...]
> this is mainly because Python doesn't have strongly-typed variables, but
> D-Bus does, so you have to tell Python what the mapping is between the
> Python types and the D-Bus types.

Yep, just experimenting with python-networkmanager, it seems this is one
of the details it looks after: IP addresses are translated to strings,
endianness is taken care of, etc.  Dicts are plain Python dicts.

Just looking at the documentation there though, am I correct in assuming
that to set up a simple connection, you would have a dict of the form:

{'connection': { global connection settings },
 'ipv4': { IPv4 address settings },
 'ipv6': { IPv6 address settings },
}

and so the 'connection' bit would be mandatory, and you might have *one*
each of the other setting types?

Regards,
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