Packages: gio-2.0 D-Bus Program: client [DBus (name = "org.example.Test")] interface Test : Object { public abstract async string[] list_messages () throws IOError; public abstract async void post_message (string message) throws IOError; } MainLoop main_loop; async void run () { Test test = yield Bus.get_proxy (BusType.SESSION, "org.example.Test", "/org/example/Test"); var events = new AsyncQueue (); DBusConnection connection = ((DBusProxy) test).g_connection; connection.add_filter ((conn, message, incoming) => { if (message.get_interface () == "org.example.Test" && message.get_member () != "ListMessages") { switch (message.get_message_type ()) { case DBusMessageType.METHOD_CALL: events.push (message.get_flags ().to_string ()); break; default: assert_not_reached (); } } return message; }); string[] messages = yield test.list_messages (); assert (messages.length == 0); yield test.post_message ("round-trip"); assert (events.pop () == "G_DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAGS_NONE"); assert (events.try_pop () == null); test.post_message.begin ("fire-and-forget"); assert (events.pop () == "G_DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAGS_NO_REPLY_EXPECTED"); assert (events.try_pop () == null); messages = yield test.list_messages (); assert (messages.length == 2); assert (messages[0] == "round-trip"); assert (messages[1] == "fire-and-forget"); main_loop.quit (); } void main () { run.begin (); main_loop = new MainLoop (null, false); main_loop.run (); } Program: server [DBus (name = "org.example.Test")] class Test : Object { private string[] messages = new string[0]; public async string[] list_messages () { return messages; } public async void post_message (string message) { messages += message; } } MainLoop main_loop; void client_exit (Pid pid, int status) { assert (status == 0); main_loop.quit (); } void main () { var conn = Bus.get_sync (BusType.SESSION); conn.register_object ("/org/example/Test", new Test ()); 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); Pid client_pid; Process.spawn_async (null, { "dbus_async_no_reply_client" }, null, SpawnFlags.DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD, null, out client_pid); ChildWatch.add (client_pid, client_exit); main_loop = new MainLoop (); main_loop.run (); }