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Improved version of Java-DBus library provided by freedesktop.org with support for Java 11+.

The new major is no drop-in replacement for 2.7.x or 3.x.x version! It requires code changes and at least Java 11.

Main difference is the separation of dbus-java functions (now called dbus-java-core) and the transports. A transport provides the code to connect to DBus daemon on various ways (e.g. unix socket or TCP).

When updating to 4.x you have to add at least one transport to your project. If you add a unix socket transport, you have to choose between jnr-unixsocket and native-unixsocket. The later will require Java 16+, while jnr-unixsockets will work with Java 11 but will pull-in jnr-posix and friends to your project.

The native-unixsockets will work almost like the jnr-unixsockets except it does not support abstract unixsockets. If you don't know what abstract unixsockets are, you'll probably don't need it and you can use native-unixsockets when using proper Java version.

If you use TransportFactory directly, you have to replace it with TransportBuilder.

If you have used the SPI to extend the MessageReader/Writer of dbus-java, you have to update your code. Old providers will not work with dbus-java 4.x because of changed SPI interfaces (sorry!).

The changes were required due to the support of native-unixsocket which is using java.nio, while the old dbus-java code uses the old java.io socket API.

With dbus-java 4.x, java.nio is used for all transports and therefore required changes on the SPI. ISocketProvider will now use SocketChannel instead of Socket in the exported methods.

DBus-Java does not support file descriptors out of the box. When trying to use file descriptors you may see weird NullPointerExceptions thrown in Message class when using dbus-java 3.x. In dbus-java 4.x you should see error messages indicating that file descriptors are not supported.

File descriptors were not implemented because they require a custom pre-compiled library written in C (therefore architecture and OS depended) and will only work when using dbus-java in combination with dbus-java-transport-jnr-unixsocket.

To add file-descriptor support:

• (dbus-java 4.x only): Add dbus-java-transport-jnr-unixsocket dependency to your project
• (dbus-java 4.x only): Remove dbus-java-transport-native-unixsocket if you have used it before
• Add dependency com.rm5248:dbus-java-nativefd to your classpath

When using dbus-java-nativefd, you have to use version 2.x when using dbus-java 4.x and 1.x if you use dbus-java 3.x. DBus-java will automatically detect dbus-java-nativefd and will then provide access to file descriptors.

See the list in our Wiki

This project receives code contributions and donations from LogonBox.
However LogonBox is not responsible for this project and does not take influence in the development.
The library will remain open source and MIT licensed and can still be used, forked or modified for free.

• Provide classloader to ServiceLoader in TransportBuilder (for loading actual transports) and AbstractTransport (for loading IMessageReader/Writer implementations), thanks to cthbleachbit (#210, PR#211)
• Added missing connect() method to AbstractTransport to allow connecting the underlying transport manually, thanks to brett-smith (#212)
• Fixed issue with SASL DATA command when no actual data is sent, thanks to Prototik (#214)
• Fixed SASL AUTH did not read enough data when COOKIE was used, thanks to Prototik (#215)

• Fixed thread priority settings were never passed to thread factory, thanks to DaveJarvis (#190)
• Fixed possible NullPointer dereference in ReceivingService, thanks to DaveJarvis (#191)
• Make ReceivingServiceConfig final in builder, thanks to DaveJarvis (#192)
• Fixed issues with code generator, creating tuple classes without proper imports and having issues creating nested structs (struct in struct) (#195)
• Updated dependencies
• Applied checkstyle suggestions
• Fixed 'type' was not passed when creating dynamic proxy, thanks to drivera73 (PR#198)
• Fixed some possible NullPointerExceptions (#201, #202, #204)
• Improved encapsulation in BusAddress (and subclasses), deprecated getParameter(String) method (#202)
• Fixed potentially leaking streams in SASL addCookie()/findCookie() methods (#205)
• Replaced old school PrintStream file writing with Files.write (#205)
• Replaced usages of calls to System.currentMillis() for locking and waiting due to possible issues when NTP changes time during lock/wait (#206)
• Reduced duplicated code (#206)
• Updated PMD rules / enabled build failing when PMD/Checkstyle rules are violated
• Replaced most usages of System.out.print and friends in unit tests (use a proper logger instead)
• Improved logging (changed usage of LoggingHelper, added a better deepToString)
• Support DBUS_TEST_HOME_DIR system property
• Fixed issue with broken MethodReturn messages when running as server (#207)
• Changed SASL to read responses bytewise to prevent reading to much (and break the following message)
• Added option to change authentication mode used in DBusDaemon (--auth-mode/-m)
• Improved handling of broken connections in DBusDaemon
• Fixed leaking threads in DBusDaemon
• Fixed EmbeddedDBusDaemon.startInBackgroundAndWait(long) did not properly wait for the sender thread to be started (#208)
• Fixed DBusDaemon never used MessageWriter/MessageReader provided on classpath (always used the default implementation)
• Some refactorings in DBusDaemon/EmbeddedDBusDaemon
• Improved AbstractTransport to support listener connections properly (you have to use listen() method now, this allows proper usage of detected MessageReader/MessageWriter implementation)
• New option in TransportBuilder to enforce Dbus-Keyring directory permissions (like adviced in DBus Spec). The default is not to check permissions, so the behavior is the same as before (dbus-java didn't care about permissions before)
• Fixed OSGi packaging

• Updated dependencies
• Compare bus type names using US locale (#185)
• Smaller cleanup/redesign in DBusDaemon
• Fixed regression: Signals could not be created when using @DBusInterfaceName("XX") on signal interface classes (#186)

• Deprecated TransportBuilder.isListening(boolean) as method name signals that a boolean is returned but TransportBuilder is returned. Please use TransportBuilder.listening(boolean) instead. Old method will be removed in 4.3.0
• Applied more PMD/CPD suggestions
• Deprecated DBusConnectionBuilder.getSystemEndianness() and DirectConnectionBuilder.getSystemEndianness(), use BaseConnectionBuilder.getSystemEndianness() instead
• Refactoring of DBusConnectionBuilder and DirectConnectionBuilder to use same base class BaseConnectionBuilder to reduce duplicated code
• Moved receiving thread configuration stuff from BaseConnectionBuilder to ReceivingServiceConfigBuilder to configure receiving thread-pools e.g. use DBusConnectionBuilder.forSessionBus().receivingThreadConfig().withXXX and continue either with .buildConnection() to get the connection object or .connectionConfig() to get back to the chosen connection builder
• Added methods withXXXThreadPriority methods to ReceivingServiceConfigBuilder to allow changing the thread priority set for ReceivingService thread pool threads (#173)
• Improved handling with different transports and address (e.g. fail early if no transport is provided for given address)
• Added possibility to add custom retry-handler to ReceivingService using the builder
• ReceivingService will now throw IllegalThreadPoolStateException (subclass of IllegalStateException) instead of IllegalStateException directly
• Use BusAddress internally instead of Strings
• Use subclasses of BusAddress in Tcp/UnixTransport
• Added method isBusType(String) to BusAddress class which allows checking which kind of transport is used case-insensitive and null-safe
• Support a custom callback on transports right before connecting (preConnectCallback) (#174)
• Reorganized TransportBuilder, this will also deprecate a lot of methods (withXXX) which were moved to configure() (which returns a TransportConfigBuilder)
• Transport configuration is now accessible using the DBusConnectionBuilder or DirectConnectionBuilder (by using e.g. DBusConnectionBuilder.forSession().transportConfig())
• New TransportConfig supports additional configuration by providing a Map<String,Object> which allows passing arbitrary values to the transport
• Updated SPI ITransportProvider which now takes a TransportConfig object instead of the timeout int. For compatibility the old method is still present (and will be delegated), but should be considered deprecated and will be removed in the future
• Improved handling of remaining messages to send when disconnection is happening due to IOException. In case the disconnect is forced by an exception the remaining messages will be omitted. Otherwise connection may block because of waiting for a replies for MethodCalls. It is assumed that a disconnection caused by an exception might have closed the transport already so no further messages may be send or received.
• Allow setting the SASL user ID manually, thanks to brett-smith (PR#178)
• Moved all SASL related configuration to SaslConfig bean, deprecated methods in AbstractTransport directly related to that change
• Removed usage of AbstractConnection.TCP_ADDRESS_PROPERTY as this was a special behavior for using/testing DBusDaemon
• EmbeddedDBusDaemon will no longer set AbstractConnection.TCP_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, instead you have to handle the address you used for construction of EmbeddedDBusDaemon yourself
• DBusConnectionBuilder.forSessionBus() will use the same validation applied to system addresses
• Replaced calls to expensive method calls when logging with call which only gets executed if log level is enabled
• Changed signal handling to use a matching method instead of relying on having a suitable map-key for every possible signal (causes high memory usage / lots of temporary objects, see #182)
• Removed usage of SignalTuple class
• Improved InputMessageStreamReader to use a final socket channel and some more final member variables for constant size buffers (#183)
• Improved Message class to not create superflous Variant objects to populate message header (#184)

• Fixed regression not allowing to use classes directly implementing DBusInterface to be exported on the bus (#157)
• Throw AuthenticationException when SASL command was unreadable during logon handshake, thanks to brett-smith (PR#158)
• Fixed issue with handling signals in wrong order (#159)
• Applied changes found by PMD/IntelliJ static code analyzers
• Deprecated DBusConnection.newConnection/DBusConnection.getConnection, please use DBusConnectionBuilder
• Deprecated public constructors of DirectConnection, please use DirectConnectionBuilder
• Added dbus-java-example module which contains samples and demonstration code on how to use dbus-java
• Fixed issue when exporting nested objects (#163)
• Added bom ("Bill of Material") project module, thanks to mk868 (PR#167)
• Fixed missing value in deprecated annotation; Removed duplicated code, thanks to mk868 (PR#168)

• Requires at least Java 11
• Added transport which uses native unix sockets provided by Java 16+ (see: #145)
• Splitted dbus-java to multiple modules:
  • dbus-java-core: Core dbus-java functions (always required)
  • dbus-java-transport-jnr-unixsocket: Unix socket support based on jnr-unixsocket
  • dbus-java-transport-native-unixsocket: Unix socket support based on native unix sockets (Java 16+ required)
  • dbus-java-transport-tcp: TCP based DBus messaging
  • dbus-java-utils: utilities which may help during development
• Updated dependencies