Packages: gio-2.0 D-Bus Program: client [DBus (name = "org.example.Test")] interface Test : Object { public abstract int get_test () throws DBusError, IOError; } MainLoop main_loop; void main () { // client var conn = Bus.get_sync (BusType.SESSION); conn.get_proxy.begin ("org.example.Test", "/org/example/test", 0, null, (o,r) => { try { Test test = ((DBusConnection) o).get_proxy.end (r); assert (test.get_test () == 4711); } catch { } finally { main_loop.quit (); } }); main_loop = new MainLoop (null, false); main_loop.run (); } Program: server [DBus (name = "org.example.Test")] class Test : Object { public int get_test () throws DBusError, IOError { return 4711; } } MainLoop main_loop; void client_exit (Pid pid, int status) { // client finished, terminate server assert (status == 0); main_loop.quit (); } void main () { var conn = Bus.get_sync (BusType.SESSION); conn.register_object ("/org/example/test", new Test ()); // try to register service in session bus var request_result = conn.call_sync ("org.freedesktop.DBus", "/org/freedesktop/DBus", "org.freedesktop.DBus", "RequestName", new Variant ("(su)", "org.example.Test", 0x4), null, 0, -1); assert ((uint) request_result.get_child_value (0) == 1); // server ready, spawn client Pid client_pid; Process.spawn_async (null, { "dbus_async_connection_client" }, null, SpawnFlags.DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD, null, out client_pid); ChildWatch.add (client_pid, client_exit); main_loop = new MainLoop (); main_loop.run (); }