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SD_BUS_...INATION(3) sd_bus_message_set_destinationSD_BUS_...INATION(3)sd_bus_message_set_destination, sd_bus_message_get_destination, sd_bus_message_get_path, sd_bus_message_get_interface, sd_bus_message_get_member, sd_bus_message_set_sender, sd_bus_message_get_sender - Set and query bus message addressing information
#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>int sd_bus_message_set_destination(sd_bus_message *message,const char *destination);const char*sd_bus_message_get_destination(sd_bus_message *message);const char* sd_bus_message_get_path(sd_bus_message *message);const char* sd_bus_message_get_interface(sd_bus_message *message);const char* sd_bus_message_get_member(sd_bus_message *message);int sd_bus_message_set_sender(sd_bus_message *message,const char *sender);const char* sd_bus_message_get_sender(sd_bus_message *message);
sd_bus_message_set_destination()sets the destination service name for the specified bus message object. The specified name must be a valid unique or well-known service name.sd_bus_message_get_destination(),sd_bus_message_get_path(),sd_bus_message_get_interface(), andsd_bus_message_get_member() return the destination, path, interface, and member fields frommessage header. The return value will beNULLismessage isNULL or the message is of a type that does not use those fields or the message does not have them set. Seesd_bus_message_new_method_call(3) andsd_bus_message_set_destination(3) for more discussion of those values.sd_bus_message_set_sender()sets the sender service name for the specified bus message object. The specified name must be a valid unique or well-known service name. This function is useful only for messages to send on direct connections as for connections to bus brokers the broker will fill in the destination field anyway, and the sender field set by original sender is ignored.sd_bus_message_get_sender()returns the sender field frommessage. When a string is returned, it is a pointer to internal storage, and may not be modified or freed. It is only valid as long as themessage remains referenced and this field has not been changed by a different call.
On success, these calls return 0 or a positive integer. On failure, these calls return a negative errno-style error code.Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems:-EINVAL Themessage parameter or the output parameter areNULL.-EPERM Forsd_bus_message_set_destination()andsd_bus_message_set_sender(), the message is already sealed.-EEXIST The message already has a destination or sender field set.
Functions described here are available as a shared library, which can be compiled against and linked to with thelibsystemd pkg-config(1) file. The code described here usesgetenv(3), which is declared to be not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the functions described here must not callsetenv(3) from a parallel thread. It is recommended to only do calls tosetenv()from an early phase of the program when no other threads have been started.
sd_bus_message_set_destination()andsd_bus_message_set_sender() were added in version 237.sd_bus_message_get_destination(),sd_bus_message_get_path(),sd_bus_message_get_interface(),sd_bus_message_get_member(), andsd_bus_message_get_sender()were added in version 240.
systemd(1),sd-bus(3),sd_bus_new(3),sd_bus_set_sender(3)
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