RE: DBus APIs for HCI/L2CAP?

["Tom Allebrandi" <wyrles@ytram.com>]

Hi Luiz  -

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:27 AM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz said:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Tom Allebrandi <wyrles@ytram.com> wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > Is there a DBus API for issuing HCI commands? I want to be able to
> > issue vendor specific commands.
> >
> > Also, I want to be able set the Limited Inquiry Access Code for both
> > discovery and discoverability. I see the Discoverable property in
> > org.bluez.Adapter but I don't see any way to set the IAC.
> >
> > Similarly, is there a DBus API for L2CAP? I need to be able to
> > manually setup channels and control the packets that I send over those
> channels.
> >
> > I'm working with profiles that are not yet implemented in BlueZ. Also,
> > I need to be able to generate malformed packets for test purposes.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that I can do all of the above with BTIO or the socket
> > interface. I'm just trying to be a good boy and use DBus :-).
> 
> D-Bus is not really meant for data, it is a high level/convenient API for
> applications, so if you are trying to implement a profile you should
probably
> stick with sockets or use BTIO as bluetoothd and obexd does.
> 

Ok. As I said, I'm trying to be a good boy. I've heard Marcel say words like
"use DBus not sockets" enough times that I was starting in from that end
:-). BTIO looks like a reasonable compromise.

Do you (or anyone) know if there is a Perl<->.so interface? (Perl for
Windows has an interface package that allows arbitrary functions to be
called from any old DLL. (I've never figured out XS.))

I'm not afraid of C/C++ programming, I just do a lot of my scripted type
stuff in Perl.

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In my case, I'm not actually implementing whole profiles. I'm more
interested in creating feature/function centric parts of profiles similar to
the way test cases work in PTS.

That, and some downstack support API thingies since {system("hcitool");} is
just clumsy.

Thanks for the info.

Cheers!

--- tom