Re: How to pass an object-path over d-bus from emacs?

[Michael Albinus]

"Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <fran.burstall@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

> Q: How do I feed a parameter of type o (object-path) over d-bus from
> emacs-lisp?
>
> My reading of the docs is that something of the form
>
>     (list :variant (list :object-path "/some/path/here"))
>
> should do the job.  But the receiving application complains:
>
>    playerctl-WARNING **: 20:10:52.843: mpris:trackid is a string, not a
> D-Bus object reference
>
> Any idea what I am missing?

If you just need the object path, say ':object-path "/some/path/here"'
(w/o the surrounding apostrophes). See the examples in
.../test/lisp/net/dbus-tests.el

> ---Fran

Best regards, Michael.