Binder interface for wpa_supplicant?

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 08:07 -0800, Paul Stewart wrote:
> 
> I'll add the obligatory comment that for other projects we did end up
> writing a tool [1] for taking in an XML D-Bus interface definition
> (as taken from an introspection) and generating abstract object
> definitions for all of the D-Bus RPC objects in our
> applications.  This meant that implementing the functionality just
> required writing a subclass of each of these generated objects.  We
> ended up adding a couple small annotations to the XML, e.g.,
> asynchronous vs. synchronous methods.

Nice.

> As Christopher says, Binder has it's own interface definition
> language and semantics.
> Writing a "master interface definition language" to generate those
> two other definition languages sounds a little too academic. :-)

Yeah, it probably is. It seems it ought to be possible, but I've never
really played with either (binder or dbus) much...
Perhaps kdbus will eventually take over everything ;-)

johannes