How to define a new d-bus interface that can be introspected?

I've created a custom d-bus service which seems to be registered and can be activated by a dbus call, however it has no interface definition and can not be introspected by tools like d-feet.

I'm trying to figure out how to do this, I've created the following interface file:

<!DOCTYPE node PUBLIC
    "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Object Introspection 1.0//EN"
    "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/introspect.dtd" >
<node xmlns:doc="http://www.freedesktop.org/dbus/1.0/doc.dtd">
  <interface name="com.me.test.Manager">
    <method name="Start">
      <arg name="name" direction="in" type="s">
        <doc:doc><doc:summary>Name of new contact</doc:summary></doc:doc>
      </arg>
      <arg name="email" direction="in" type="s">
        <doc:doc><doc:summary>E-mail address of new contact</doc:summary></doc:doc>
      </arg>
      <arg name="id" direction="out" type="u">
        <doc:doc><doc:summary>ID of newly added contact</doc:summary></doc:doc>
      </arg>
      <doc:doc>
        <doc:description>
          <doc:para>
            Adds a new contact to the address book with their name and
            e-mail address.
          </doc:para>
        </doc:description>
      </doc:doc>
    </method>
  </interface>
</node>

I've named the file this:

/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.me.test.Manager.xml

However I still do not see any object on the session bus when I search for "com.me.test" using d-feet browser. How does this interface actually get registered by dbus, does dbus monitor this directory? I've tried restarting dbus but that didn't help

Solution

your service need to call org.freedesktop.DBus.RequestName to be visible under ceertain name and after that respond to org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect requests

Here is example how I implemented it in my dbus library - https://github.com/sidorares/node-dbus/blob/master/lib/stdifaces.js#L24-L92