Dbus Service with Python (for gtk2)

dbus_service.py

# myservice.py
# simple python-dbus service that exposes 1 method called hello()
 
import gtk
import dbus
import dbus.service
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
 
class MyDBUSService(dbus.service.Object):
    def __init__(self):
        bus_name = dbus.service.BusName('org.frankhale.helloservice', bus=dbus.SessionBus())
        dbus.service.Object.__init__(self, bus_name, '/org/frankhale/helloservice')
 
    @dbus.service.method('org.frankhale.helloservice')
    def hello(self):
        return "Hello,World!"
 
DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
myservice = MyDBUSService()
gtk.main()
 
#######################
 
# consumeservice.py
# consumes a method in a service on the dbus
 
import dbus
 
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
helloservice = bus.get_object('org.frankhale.helloservice', '/org/frankhale/helloservice')
hello = helloservice.get_dbus_method('hello', 'org.frankhale.helloservice')
print hello()