X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fdbus-send.1.xml.in;h=67b6dfd27b5af63faf98a2043a782c1e56022e97;hb=3ccb027c907f9ee2890028e83b60296204bbf478;hp=af4f158d3e66b6148d649286e33237f16f67ab3e;hpb=4057fcb66f5b7820431b6569e6e48b771a79fa5f;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fdbus.git diff --git a/doc/dbus-send.1.xml.in b/doc/dbus-send.1.xml.in index af4f158..67b6dfd 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-send.1.xml.in +++ b/doc/dbus-send.1.xml.in @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ - dbus-send - --system --session + dbus-send + --system --session --address=ADDRESS --dest=NAME --print-reply =literal --reply-timeout=MSEC @@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ DESCRIPTION The dbus-send command is used to send a message to a D-Bus message -bus. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more +bus. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information about the big picture. -There are two well-known message buses: the systemwide message bus -(installed on many systems as the "messagebus" service) and the +There are two well-known message buses: the systemwide message bus +(installed on many systems as the "messagebus" service) and the per-user-login-session message bus (started each time a user logs in). The and options direct dbus-send to send messages to the system or session buses respectively. @@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ which is the name of a connection on the bus to send the message to. If The object path and the name of the message to send must always be specified. Following arguments, if any, are the message contents -(message arguments). These are given as type-specified values and +(message arguments). These are given as type-specified values and may include containers (arrays, dicts, and variants) as described below. <contents> ::= <item> | <container> [ <item> | <container>...] <item> ::= <type>:<value> <container> ::= <array> | <dict> | <variant> -<array> ::= array:<type>:<value>[,<value>...] +<array> ::= array:<type>:<value>[,<value>...] <dict> ::= dict:<type>:<type>:<key>,<value>[,<key>,<value>...] <variant> ::= variant:<type>:<value> <type> ::= string | int16 | uint 16 | int32 | uint32 | int64 | uint64 | double | byte | boolean | objpath @@ -83,11 +83,11 @@ or nested containers (e.g. arrays of variants). array:string:"1st item","next item","last item" \ dict:string:int32:"one",1,"two",2,"three",3 \ variant:int32:-8 \ - objpath:/org/freedesktop/sample/object/name + objpath:/org/freedesktop/sample/object/name -Note that the interface is separated from a method or signal +Note that the interface is separated from a method or signal name by a dot, though in the actual protocol the interface and the interface member are separate fields. @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ and the interface member are separate fields. Block for a reply to the message sent, and print any reply received -in a human-readable form. +in a human-readable form. It also means the message type () is method_call. @@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ The default is implementation‐defined, typically 25 seconds. + ADDRESS + +Send to ADDRESS. + + + TYPE Specify method_call or signal (defaults to "signal"). @@ -156,4 +162,3 @@ The default is implementation‐defined, typically 25 seconds. see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ -