After some discussion on IRC with Stéphane Letz, I created abstract description of the API that is needed to implement current jackdbus functionality (i.e. without the coming patchbay and transport control interfaces). I've decided to describe it in C++ just because it will be more clear to general public than plain C OO abstraction, or UML diagram. jackdbus code itself is in plain C. Hope is that such abstraction will help to have same D-Bus interface implemented (and much of related code - shared) for both jackd and jackdmp. // -*- Mode: C++ ; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // DESCRIPTION: // Abstraction of the API needed to implement jackdbus // /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #ifndef JACKSERVER_H__775F79BA_DDE0_4FEA_AC4B_7BE05638499C__INCLUDED #define JACKSERVER_H__775F79BA_DDE0_4FEA_AC4B_7BE05638499C__INCLUDED /** Parameter types, intentionally similar to jack_driver_param_type_t */ typedef enum { JackParamInt = 1, JackParamUInt, JackParamChar, JackParamString, JackParamBool, } jack_param_type_t; class ImmutableString; class ImmutableVariant; template<class T> class ImmutableSet; class JackConfigurationParameter { public: ImmutableString& GetName() const; ImmutableString& GetShortDescription() const; ImmutableString& GetLongDescription() const; jack_param_type_t GetType() const; ImmutableVariant& GetValue() const; void SetValue(ImmutableVariant& value); }; class JackConfigurationDriverParameter: public JackConfigurationParameter { public: bool IsSet() const; ImmutableVariant GetDefault() const; }; class JackConfigurableObject { public: virtual ImmutableSet<JackConfigurationParameter>& GetParameters() const = 0; // helpers JackConfigurationParameter& FindParameter(ImmutableString& parameter_name); }; class JackDriver: public JackConfigurableObject { }; class JackEngine: public JackConfigurableObject { }; class JackServerInterface: public JackEngine { public: ImmutableSet<JackDriver> GetAvailableDrivers(); void StartServer(JackDriver& driver); // next ones are called only on started server void StopServer(); double GetLoad() const; // In percent unsigned int GetSampleRate() const; // in Hz double GetLatency() const; // in milliseconds bool IsRealtime() const; // whether engine is running unsigned int GetXruns() const; void ResetXruns(); // reset value being returned by GetXruns() to 0 }; #endif // #ifndef JACKSERVER_H__775F79BA_DDE0_4FEA_AC4B_7BE05638499C__INCLUDED