Overview#
You can find the DBus API Specification here. While this was the initial specification that was used for development, the actual implementation may not have been completely faithful to it due to technical issues that had to be resolved. You can find the technical DBus specification here, and examples of it’s consumption in some of the embedded applications (e.g. fret)
Further reading:
Options for interacting with the API#
There are a number of options for interacting with the API.
Using the rot command line tool and Oxide-Utils.
Making calls using dbus-send.
Generating classes using the automatic interface xml files.
Making D-Bus calls manually in your language of choice.
For the purposes of this documentation we will document using CLI Tool (rot) as well as using Qt generated classes.