Shape of things to come
I just committed the first version of a working GObject binding to the Conduit DBus API. You can check out an example test program here.
Contrived Example-like Code
/* The running conduit app/daemon */
ConduitGApplication *application = conduit_g_application_new ();
/* Get two dataproviders, a datasource and datasink */
ConduitGDataprovider *source = conduit_g_application_get_dataprovider(application, "TestSource");
ConduitGDataprovider *sink = conduit_g_application_get_dataprovider(application, "TestSink");
/* Put them in a conduit so we can sync them */
ConduitGConduit *conduit = conduit_g_application_build_conduit(application,source,sink);
g_signal_connect (conduit, "sync-progress", (GCallback) _sync_progress_cb, NULL);
g_signal_connect (conduit, "sync-completed", (GCallback) _sync_completed_cb, NULL);
g_signal_connect (conduit, "sync-conflict", (GCallback) _sync_conflict_cb, NULL);
/* Add it to the GUI so the user can see it (optional) */
ConduitGSyncset *gui_syncset = conduit_g_syncset_new(application, "/syncset/gui");
conduit_g_syncset_add_conduit(gui_syncset, conduit);
/* Perform the sync (boom!) */
conduit_g_conduit_sync(conduit);
g_main_loop_run (mainloop);
Conclusion
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A GObject binding to the Conduit DBus API means you can synchronize your application data, from within your application, in very few lines of code;
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Your application is not going to crash
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Your application is not going to hang or block the UI
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The difficult sync logic for interfacing with various other places can be written in Python (faster, more productive, most web-services get python bindings first), live in the Conduit source tree, and immediately be available to all other applications which use Conduit to sync stuff.
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In SVN NOW!
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Hat-tip to Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen whose Xesam Glib bindings provided a useful starting point, and saved me much autotools pain.
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Yes, the names are a bit long.Who has a better idea for the prefix, gcond_ perhaps?
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Who wants to help me integrate this into;
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Cheese
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Evolution
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GNOME Phone Manager
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$YOUR_APP_HERE
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