Ubuntu DBus and Upstart - Service controller

rootshell

Hello,

Been working on a large project that uses QService to create a service. One of the applications I want the abilty to control the service via the local system API. For example on windows I will use the Service Controller API, i have some working code out on my site, "Void Realms Source Code":http://voidrealms.com/index.php?r=source/view&id=22

But my question here is specifically with upstart on Ubuntu. Upstart has a DBus interface which is fairly new to me:
"Upstart DBus":http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/DBusInterface

I did find an example, but for the life of me I cant get it to work - error arguments are incorrect:
"DBus example with Upstart":https://gitorious.org/chakra/kcm-systemd/source/706ef9bdbbca3172d478d53a568d1f8321a95b95:tests/trainingtests.cpp

Can anyone point me in the right direction or show me a working example of how to query Upstart via DBus? Ideally I would like to be able to start / stop and query the service state.

Thanks!

[Update]
Thought i had this solved but found I am still a long ways off...so far the only thing I can get working is getting a list of job paths from the Upstart dbus interface.

Working code is:

Pro file:
qt += dbus

Code file:

@void test::performTest()
{
QDBusInterface interface(
QLatin1String("com.ubuntu.Upstart"),
QLatin1String("/com/ubuntu/Upstart"),
QLatin1String("com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6"),
QDBusConnection::systemBus()
);

qDebug() << "Getting all jobs";

QDBusReply< QList<QDBusObjectPath> > reply = interface.call("GetAllJobs");
if(reply.isValid())
{
    foreach(QDBusObjectPath obj, reply.value())
    {
        qDebug() << "PATH = " << obj.path() << "\r\n";
    }
}
else
{
    qDebug() << reply.error();
}

}@

Even after reviewing the documentation I am still a bit lost - anyone have any experience controlling upstart jobs via DBus or should I just fire off a QProcess and read the output of initctl?

rootshell

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