[Gambas-user] Dbus unique name seems incorrect

[Brian G]

Has anyone else experienced this?

"Failure is the key to success; 
 each mistake teaches us something"  .. Morihei Ueshiba
Brian G

----- On Jan 16, 2022, at 2:26 PM, Brian G brian at westwoodsvcs.com wrote:

> Hi Benoît,
> 
>  When working with the policykit1, some of the methods require a unique name. By
>  the DBus standard a unique name must start with a colon. Normally the Hello
>  method would return a unique id, but that crashes when I try to us it.
> 
> When I try to pass the dbus name to the Kit I get an invalid name error. Upon
> research the name must start with a : to be unique.
> 
> When working with the PolicyKit1:
> 
>  Dim Proxy As New DBusProxy(App, "/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority",
>  "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority")
>  Dim System_Bus_Name As String = DBus.name
>  Dim subject As Variant = ["system-bus-name", ["name": System_Bus_Name]]
>  Dim action_id As String = "org.freedesktop.policykit.exec"
>  Dim Details As Variant = New Collection
>  Dim flags As Integer = 1
>  Dim cancellation_id As String = ""
>  Dim sresult As Variant = Proxy.CheckAuthorization(subject, action_id, details,
>  flags, cancellation_id)
>            org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed:Error getting subject: Error Parsing
>            system-bus-name subject: 'org.gambas.Auth-537384' is not a unique name.
> 
>  Would it be possible to change how the naming works?
> 
> "Failure is the key to success;
> each mistake teaches us something"  .. Morihei Ueshiba
> Brian G
> 
> ----- On Jan 16, 2022, at 1:05 PM, Benoît Minisini g4mba5 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Le 16/01/2022 à 03:26, Brian G a écrit :
>>> In the db.dbus module
>>> 
>>> the dbus.unique is false to start but seems to try and create a unique name
>>> 
>>> When set to true it appears to create a non unique name.
>>> 
>>> And as far as a unique name goes, it must start with a : for the system
>>> to recognize it as unique...
>> 
>> Where did you see that?
>> 
>> Setting DBus.Unique changes just the name used for registering to the D-Bus.
>> 
>> If not set, the name includes the application name and the process PID.
>> If set, just the application name, so that two instances of the same
>> application will use the same name.
>> 
>> It's just a trick, and D-Bus is not concerned by it.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> --
>> Benoît Minisini
>> 
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