Object Hierarchy

  GObject
   +----GypsyControl

Description

GypsyControl is the object that controls the gypsy-daemon process. It is a singleton object, meaning that there can only be one instance of it per application. Once the object has been created (or referenced if it had already been created for the application) with gypsy_control_get_default(), it can be used to tell gypsy-daemon what GPS device to connect to with gypsy_control_create(). This call returns the D-Bus path to the GPS object in gypsy-daemon. This path is then used to create other objects, such as GypsyPosition, or GypsyCourse.

As gypsy-daemon is able to connect to multiple GPS devices, the one GypsyControl can be used to create them, returning a different path for each GPS device. Gypsy-daemon can connect to both serial port devices which have an entry in /dev and Bluetooth devices natively without the need to use rfcomm to set up a /dev entry. To do this you pass either the device path or the Bluetooth address of the device to gypsy_control_create().

Once the program has finished with the GPS, the GypsyControl object should by unreferenced with g_object_unref().

. . .

GypsyControl *control;
char *path_bt, *path_dev;
GError *error = NULL;

. . .

control = gypsy_control_get_default ();
/ * Use a Bluetooth device * /
path_bt = gypsy_control_create (control, "aa:bb:cc:dd:ee", &error);
if (path_bt == NULL) {
  g_warning ("There was an error creating aa:bb:cc:dd:ee - %s", error->message);
  g_error_free (error);
  error = NULL;
}

/ * Use a serial port device * /
path_dev = gypsy_control_create (control, "/dev/gps", &error);
if (path_dev == NULL) {
  g_warning ("There was an error creating /dev/gps - %s", error->message);
  g_error_free (error);
  error = NULL;
}

. . .

/ * Use the paths here to create listener objects * /

. . . 

g_free (path_bt);
g_free (path_dev);

. . .

/ * The program has finished with Gypsy now, unref the object. * /
g_object_unref (G_OBJECT (control));

Details

typedef struct _GypsyControl GypsyControl;

#define GYPSY_CONTROL_DBUS_SERVICE "org.freedesktop.Gypsy"

#define GYPSY_CONTROL_DBUS_PATH "/org/freedesktop/Gypsy"

#define GYPSY_CONTROL_DBUS_INTERFACE "org.freedesktop.Gypsy.Server"

GypsyControl*       gypsy_control_get_default           (void);

char*               gypsy_control_create                (GypsyControl *control,
                                                         const char *device_name,
                                                         GError **error);