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NAME

sd_bus_call_method, sd_bus_call_methodv, sd_bus_call_method_async, sd_bus_call_method_asyncv - Initialize a bus message object and invoke the corresponding D-Bus method call

SYNOPSIS

#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>

DESCRIPTION

sd_bus_call_method() is a convenience function for initializing a bus message object and calling the corresponding D-Bus method. It combines the sd_bus_message_new_method_call(3), sd_bus_message_append(3) and sd_bus_call(3) functions into a single function call.

sd_bus_call_method_async() is a convenience function for initializing a bus message object and calling the corresponding D-Bus method asynchronously. It combines the sd_bus_message_new_method_call(3), sd_bus_message_append(3) and sd_bus_call_async(3) functions into a single function call.

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return a non-negative integer. On failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.

Errors
See the man pages of sd_bus_message_new_method_call(3), sd_bus_message_append(3), sd_bus_call(3) and sd_bus_call_async(3) for a list of possible errors.

NOTES

Functions described here are available as a shared library, which can be compiled against and linked to with the libsystemd pkg-config(1) file.

The code described here uses getenv(3), which is declared to be not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the functions described here must not call setenv(3) from a parallel thread. It is recommended to only do calls to setenv() from an early phase of the program when no other threads have been started.

EXAMPLES

Example 1. Make a call to a D-Bus method that takes a single parameter

/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0 */

/* This is equivalent to:
* busctl call org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 \
* org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager GetUnitByPID $$
*
* Compile with 'cc print-unit-path-call-method.c -lsystemd'
*/

#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>

#define _cleanup_(f) __attribute__((cleanup(f)))
#define DESTINATION "org.freedesktop.systemd1"
#define PATH "/org/freedesktop/systemd1"
#define INTERFACE "org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager"
#define MEMBER "GetUnitByPID"

static int log_error(int error, const char *message) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", message, strerror(-error));
return error;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
_cleanup_(sd_bus_flush_close_unrefp) sd_bus *bus = NULL;
_cleanup_(sd_bus_error_free) sd_bus_error error = SD_BUS_ERROR_NULL;
_cleanup_(sd_bus_message_unrefp) sd_bus_message *reply = NULL;
int r;

r = sd_bus_open_system(&bus);
if (r < 0)
return log_error(r, "Failed to acquire bus");

r = sd_bus_call_method(bus, DESTINATION, PATH, INTERFACE, MEMBER, &error, &reply, "u", (unsigned) getpid());
if (r < 0)
return log_error(r, MEMBER " call failed");

const char *ans;
r = sd_bus_message_read(reply, "o", &ans);
if (r < 0)
return log_error(r, "Failed to read reply");

printf("Unit path is \"%s\".\n", ans);

return 0;
}

This defines a minimally useful program that will open a connection to the bus, call a method, wait for the reply, and finally extract and print the answer. It does error handling and proper memory management.

HISTORY

sd_bus_call_method(), and sd_bus_call_method_async() were added in version 221.

sd_bus_call_methodv(), sd_bus_call_method_asyncv() were added in version 246.

SEE ALSO

systemd(1), sd-bus(3), sd_bus_message_new_method_call(3), sd_bus_message_append(3), sd_bus_call(3), sd_bus_set_property(3), sd_bus_emit_signal(3)