Hi, this is Chapter II of Art of Making Plugins (Please read that, if you want, its not necessary though). I want to implement IPC in my Gtk application written in Python. What are the best IPC mechanism available? It will be great and excellent if that IPC mechanism is a GNOME project, like something provided by Gio module.
I read about GDBUS, and I like it, but it doesn’t support Windows (from the DBUS website, or does it?), so I looking for similar to that. One constraint is that it should be able to transport basic data like string, number and variable-length list. Please help me with this.
DBus works fine on Windows and macOS; on those platforms you don’t have access to a shared system and session buses, but you can use DBus for IPC within your application.
dbus-python, which wraps the reference libdbus implementation library, and has some syntactic sugar for Python types; it’s not really maintained, and has a series of well-known design problems
dbussy, a binding that uses asyncio, but does not really integrate with GLib’s main loop, so it’s more geared towards pure Python projects
GDBus, which is part of Gio and as such it’s heavily integrated within the GLib/GTK/GNOME core platform; the PyGObject bindings have some glue code that makes it slightly more Pythonic, but you may end up using GLib.Variant and other low level API if you get out of the beaten path; additionally, if you’re defining your own interfaces, you’ll have to generate your own code to create proxies and skeleton objects
I don’t have Python examples to give you, I’m afraid.
Pipes approach seems limited to UNIX platforms, so I’m not going with it. Let me have a look at sockets approach, yeah, things are getting more abstract. [Hope I don’t end up in Assembly language ]
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