This page lists the language bindings for D-Bus, their status and, if appropriate, links to download them.

GLib

You can find latest glib bindings in Freedesktop's git repo. To access with git:

• users with commit access: git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-glib
• anonymous read only access: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-glib

API documentation

A page for working on a roadmap for dbus-glib's future can be found at DBusGLibRoadmap.

The latest release is dbus-glib-0.74.tar.gz. (2007-06-27)

• Init threading first to stop a warning from new GLib.
• Remove the XML documentation support in configure
• Fix typo in _dbus_gvalue_signals_error (#10837) (Thanks to Peter Kjellerstedt)
• Update GLib requirement (Closes #10889).
• Document dbus-gtype-specialized
• Add simple test suite for peer objects.
• Support peer-to-peer proxies. (Closes #10233).
• Add dbus_connection_get_g_connection.
• Stop compiler warnings (Closes #10374).
• Handle dbus errors which are not name has no owner
• Update abstract socket test from DBus, which now cross-compiles
• Rename the error quark to be unique
• Update AUTHORS

The previous release is dbus-glib-0.73.tar.gz. (2006-02-13)

• Allow passing of NULL to strv out arguments.

  (Patch due to Luiz Augusto von Dentz < luiz.dentz@gmail.com >. Fixes bug #8795.)

• Make uscore_to_wincaps return NULL when passed NULL. (Fixes bug #8318.)

• Only respond to NameOwnerChanged if its one of our names. (Patch by Kimmo Hämäläinen < kimmo.hamalainen@nokia.com >. Fixes bug #8235.)

• Fix dbus-binding-tool to generate headers usable from C++.

  (Thanks to Christian Persch < chpe@gnome.org >. Fixes bug #6358.)

• Only require --prefix for server side binding generation. (Fixes reopened bug #4185.)
• Clarify documentation for dbus_g_method_get_sender. (Fixes #8832.)
• Add new API for specifying the timeout in DBusGProxy calls.

  (Patch due to S. Nalliami < snallammai@novell.com >. Fixes bug #9832.)

• Don't check for libxml2 when expat not found. (Fixes bugs #9894 and #9000.)
• Add configure flags --with-introspect-xml. (Fixes bug #9105)
• Use dbus_threads_init_default() rather than using own threading primitives. (Fixes bug #9259.)
• Reduce dependency to dbus version 0.93, error out if correct version

  not found. (Patch due to Luiz Augusto von Dentz < luiz.dentz@gmail.com >. Fixes bug #8793.)

• Allow dbus and dbus-glib to live in different prefixes. (Fixes bug #9384.)
• Add pkg-config support for uninstalled use.

  (Fix due to Damien Carbery < damien.carbery@sun.com >. Fixes bug #9769.)

Python

• Releases are always available from http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/

• API and other documentation are at http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/

• Recent release history

• dbus-python is maintained in git: dbus-python gitweb

• For users with commit access: git clone git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-python
• For anonymous read only access: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-python

• Bugs are tracked in the freedesktop.org bugzilla: search for dbus-python bugs or file a dbus-python bug

The current version is dbus-python 0.82.3, the "not for Trial-3" release. (2007-09-27)

Fixes:

• Out-of-tree builds with an absolute $(srcdir) can now build docs and run tests

• Closing private dbus.Bus no longer raises KeyError (fd.o #12096)

• async_err_cb(MyException()) now works (fd.o #12403)

• dbus.service.Object.remove_from_connection no longer claims that multiple exports aren't possible (fd.o #12432)
• Setting _dbus_error_name as a class attribute of DBusException subclasses works again

Deprecations:

• dbus.Bus(private=True) (use dbus.bus.BusConnection in new code, dbus.Bus basically just adds the shared-connection behaviour)

Licensing:

• Code for which Collabora is the only copyright holder is now under the same permissive MIT/X11 license under which dbus core is being relicensed (this allows everything the old license would have allowed, and more)

Java

There are now three versions of Java D-Bus. Since version 2.0 it has been a complete native implementation of the protocol and not a wrapper around the reference implementation. 1.x versions are feature-complete bindings around the reference implementation, but only work with 1.5-compatible VMs (Currently only Sun). There are older 1.4-compatible bindings which are feature incomplete and have not had much optimization work. See below if you want to try these.

Java D-Bus is hosted in freedesktop.org's git repository and can be accessed:

For users with commit access: git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-java

For anonymous read only access: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-java

The latest release is dbus-java-2.4.tar.gz. (2008-02-05) Version 2.4:

• Add DBusMemberName to force method names or signal names to something

  • other than the Java name (suggested byaViktar Vauchkevich <vctr -at- yandex -dot- ru>)

• Don't respond to Introspect/Ping except on the right interface

  • (pointed out by Serkan Kaba <serkan_kaba -at- yahoo -dot- com>)

• Automatically unexport objects which go out of scope in the
  • parent program (don't hold a strong reference). This is now optional and not the default for 1. sanity and 2. a possible

    bug in the WeakReference workings in Sun.

• Add fallback objects---a single object can be called for any
  • object under a given path prefix.
• Add support for localization of strings via gettext.
• Throw a nicer error when signals are not declared as part of an
  • interface.
• .viewerclasses needs to depend on .binclasses
• Use libunixsocket-java support for writing multiple byte arrays at
  • once to write message vectors
• check that the unix-socket-received uid matches for connections to
  • DBusDaemon
• Update to use libunixsocket-java syntax which works on BSDs
• Fix utf-8 characters used in test to actually be the same character...
• Add code to preallocate the buffer array array (Suggested by Adam

  • Bennett <cruxic -at- gmail -dot- com>)

• Fix warnings when building with gcj (fixes a bug in Peer handling and
  • DBusSerializable handling)

The previous release was dbus-java-2.3.2.tar.gz. (2007-12-01)

Version 2.3.2:

• Fix empty array/map bug (reported by Jan Kümmel

  • <freedesktop -at- snorc -dot- org>)

• Add licence headers to files missing them

• Fix minor bug in AbstractConnection.java (reported by Frank Benoit

  • <benoit -at- tionex -dot- de>

• Make Marshalling more verbose and descriptive in the presence of
  • mismatched parameter lists (suggested by Anibal Sanchez

    <anibal -dot- sanchez -at- sunya -dot- com -dot- ar>)

• Fix struct type parsing error (spotted by Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes

  • <gunnar -dot- grimnes -at- dfki -dot- de> and Frank Benoit <keinfarbton -at- googlemail -dot- com>)

• Fix parsing of serializable classes
• Anonymous SASL (needs testing)

Version 2.3.1:

• Fix regression in normal array handling (spotted by Anibal Sanchez <anibal -dot- sanchez -at- sunya -dot- com -dot- ar>

Version 2.3:

• Apply recursive-path patch for DBusViewer (written by Zsombor Gegesy

  • <gzsombor -at- gmail -dot- com>)

• Add Class-Path to jar manifests
• Update documentation for nested classes
• Documentation build fix
• Add test for arrays-of-structs
• Fix arrays-of-structs bug (spotted by Daniel Machado

  • <cdanielmachado -at- gmail -dot- com>)

• Fix bashism in Makefile
• add DBusInterfaceName annotation to override the Java interface name as
  • the name exported on the bus.

The last release binding the reference implementation is libdbus-java-1.13.tar.gz.

Documentation and API reference for the Java implementation of D-Bus is here.

The older 1.4-compatible bindings are still available here.

The Maintainer is Matthew Johnson < dbus@matthew.ath.cx >

Qt4

The D-Bus bindings for Qt4 are distributed alongside Qt itself, starting with version 4.2. The latest release can be found at http://www.trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/index. More recent versions can be found in Qt's nightly snapshots.

Perl

The Perl bindings currently work on any Perl >= 5.8.x and any D-Bus version from 0.33.0 onwards. They can be downloaded from CPAN under the Net-DBus module:

• Net-DBus-0.33.3.tar.gz

• API documentation

• Tutorials

The maintainer is Daniel P. Berrange, and the source code is managed in a Mercurial repository at http://hg.berrange.com/libraries/net-dbus--devel

C++

dbus-cpp was started almost three years ago to provide a C++ API for D-Bus, but is unfortunately abandoned since then. For this reason PaoloDurante wrote a pure C++ binding while working on the OpenWengo softphone.

The most recent version is available on freedesktop.org via Git, just do

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-c++/

Pascal

Pascal bindings are in progress and details can be found here.

Qt3

There is a Qt3 backport of the Qt4 bindings available under WebSVN@KDE and [ http://people.freedesktop.org/~krake/dbus-1-qt3/libdbus-1-qt3-0.8.tar.gz Sources ca. 600 KB]

Check out through anonymous SVN is also avialable: svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/dbus-qt4-qt3backport

API documentation can be found here: API Docs

The maintainer is Kevin Krammer < kevin.krammer@gmx.at >

.NET

The .NET bindings located in the D-Bus GIT server is unmaintained. They are scheduled to be removed unless a maintainer steps up. The have been split and placed in a git repo for anyone who would like to pick up maintainership. It can be accessed via git at:

For users with commit access: git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-mono

For anonymous read only access: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-mono

For those interested in .NET support, the D-Bus Sharp implementation provides an alternative and is in active development. D-Bus Sharp is not a binding to the reference implementation, but an alternative implementation of the D-Bus protocol.

Ruby

The most active and complete ruby implementation at this point is the ruby-dbus project at https://trac.luon.net/ruby-dbus/. This is a follow on from the original ruby-dbus project on rubyforge.

Sven Herzberg was asked by a friend to develop dbus bindings for ruby. His git repository is located at: http://www.blaubeermuffin.de/rdbus.git

Scheme

Chicken Scheme binding can be found at chicken's Egg Repository as dbus egg. The same place contains few short usage samples.

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