Using gdbus-codegen: GIO Reference Manual

## Using gdbus-codegen

dbus-glib comes with dbus-binding-tool, which can produce somewhat nice client- and server-side wrappers for a D-Bus interface. With GDBus, gdbus-codegen is used and like its counterpart, it also takes D-Bus Introspection XML as input:

Example 2. Example D-Bus Introspection XML

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If this XML is processed like this

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    gdbus-codegen --interface-prefix org.gtk.GDBus.Example.ObjectManager. \
                  --generate-c-code generated-code                        \
                  --c-namespace Example                       \
                  --c-generate-object-manager                 \
                  --generate-docbook generated-docs                       \
                  gdbus-example-objectmanager.xml

then two files `generated-code.h` and `generated-code.c` are generated. Additionally, two XML files `generated-docs-org.gtk.GDBus.Example.ObjectManager.Animal` and `generated-docs-org.gtk.GDBus.Example.ObjectManager.Cat` with Docbook XML are generated.

While the contents of `generated-code.h` and `generated-code.c` are best described by the gdbus-codegen manual page, brief examples of how this generated code can be used can be found in ??? and ???.