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authorDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2020-03-16 20:41:57 +0100
committerYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2020-03-17 17:12:58 +0900
commit9735c644be672f5ba3b319417e266648ed133d42 (patch)
tree2e8b84d0ac812c8d1b973bb26b6f2829ecf5d2c6 /man/sd_bus_message_new_method_call.xml
parenta4f4a4e44100025cfbe01b042db386e0e933c627 (diff)
downloadsystemd-9735c644be672f5ba3b319417e266648ed133d42.tar.gz
sd-bus: Add sd_bus_method_call/sd_bus_method_call_async docs + cleanups.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_message_new_method_call.xml b/man/sd_bus_message_new_method_call.xml
index 0d181ed82e..1201262690 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_message_new_method_call.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_message_new_method_call.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
<funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-bus.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
<funcprototype>
- <funcdef>int sd_bus_message_new_method_call</funcdef>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_message_new_method_call</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>sd_bus *<parameter>bus</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>sd_bus_message **<parameter>m</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>const char *<parameter>destination</parameter></paramdef>
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
- <funcdef>int sd_bus_message_new_method_return</funcdef>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_message_new_method_return</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>sd_bus_message *<parameter>call</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>sd_bus_message **<parameter>m</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
@@ -70,7 +70,11 @@
has only a single member with the given name and there is no ambiguity if the interface name is
omitted.</para>
- <para>The <function>sd_bus_message_new_method_call()</function> function creates a new bus
+ <para>Note that this is a low level interface. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_call_method</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for a more convenient way of calling D-Bus methods.</para>
+
+ <para>The <function>sd_bus_message_new_method_return()</function> function creates a new bus
message object that is a reply to the method call <parameter>call</parameter> and returns it in
the <parameter>m</parameter> output parameter. The <parameter>call</parameter> parameter must be
a method call message. The sender of <parameter>call</parameter> is used as the destination.
@@ -80,8 +84,8 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
- <para>This function returns 0 if the message object was successfully created, and a negative
- errno-style error code otherwise.</para>
+ <para>On success, these functions returns a non-negative integer. On failure, they return a
+ negative errno-style error code.</para>
<refsect2 id='errors'>
<title>Errors</title>
@@ -160,6 +164,7 @@
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_path_encode</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_call_method</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>