Is it possible to gather the complete object tree of a DBus connection name using dbus-send?
Currently I am able to do this performing multiple calls to the desired destination specifying the method 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect' and using '/' as path the first time, than retrieving the inner nodes and performing a new call on those.
For example:
$ dbus-send --session --print-reply --reply-timeout=2000 --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Bluetooth.applet / org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect
gives nodes Factory and org. So I proceed with the calls:
$ dbus-send --session --print-reply --reply-timeout=2000 --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Bluetooth.applet /Factory org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect
$ dbus-send --session --print-reply --reply-timeout=2000 --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Bluetooth.applet /org org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect
and so on...
I would like to retrive the complete tree at once.
I know tools like d-feet can do this, but I need a cli interface and dbus-send would be very handy.
No, this is not possible. You can ask bus to list all service names, but there is no way to ask all interfaces, so usually there are two scenarios: 1) You know interface names and use them 2) you start with / and process recursively based on Introspect() responses. D-feet does (2)