dbus-inspect

Command line D-Bus inspector.

Usecase

It's an alternative to D-Feet which requires a graphical environment or a nicer-looking replacement of busctl introspect.

Installation

You can compile it from sources or install it using go get:

go get -u github.com/goautomotive/dbus-inspect

Usage

List all available destinations on the system bus:

% dbus-inspect -system ⏎

fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 611 /usr/bin/wpa_supplicant -u
org.bluez 977 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
org.freedesktop.Accounts 616 /usr/lib/accounts-daemon
org.freedesktop.Avahi 624 avahi-daemon: running [homebook.local
org.freedesktop.ColorManager 709 /usr/lib/colord
org.freedesktop.DBus 615 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
...

Inspect a particular destination, say org.bluez:

% dbus-inspect -system org.bluez ⏎

/
  org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable
    Methods
      Introspect() → (xml String)
  org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager
    Methods
      GetManagedObjects() → (objects Dict{Object, Dict{String, Dict{String, Variant}}})
    Signals
      InterfacesAdded(object Object, interfaces Dict{String, Dict{String, Variant}})
      InterfacesRemoved(object Object, interfaces Array[String])

/org/bluez
  org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable
    Methods
      Introspect() → (xml String)
  org.bluez.AgentManager1
    Methods
      RegisterAgent(agent Object, capability String) → ()
      UnregisterAgent(agent Object) → ()
      RequestDefaultAgent(agent Object) → ()
  org.bluez.ProfileManager1
    Methods
      RegisterProfile(profile Object, UUID String, options Dict{String, Variant}) → ()
      UnregisterProfile(profile Object) → ()
...

For additional help use -h or -help

Contributing

All contributions are welcome! Just fill in an issue or submit a pull request.