As of today hammster-dbus has
been released in it's initial version 0.10.0.
While this early release is far from finished it should give interested parties an idea where we are going with this as well as provide an initial foundation for integrating hamster with dbus (hence getting closer to hamsters original feature set).
hamster-dbus contains the means to provide a hamster service that allows
clients just dump their information without caring for any backend logic or be
informed if underlying data changes - something projects like
hamster-bridge may find
interesting. In addition to this, hamster-dbus also provides a new 'dbus
storage backend' that can be used by clients to communicate with a running
'hamster-dbus' service so they do not have to implement the client side logic
themself at all.
Disclaimer: Whilst I invested a significant amount of time into providing a sane and maintainable unittest setup the reality seems to be that unittesting dbus is something not really done nor supported, especially when it comes down to services and their exported objects. In order to get on with things I had to cut my looses at some point and so the test coverage is not as high as I would like (but still significantly better that what seems to be the baseline for dbus services). if anyone has any experience with testing python dbus code I would very interested in hearing from you :)
I hope you find this useful and wish you all a sunny afternoon Eric