Zeitgeist Framework

Writing a logger in Java?

Asked by Stephan Wissel

I have a custom Java application I would like send events to the Zeitgeist engine. I understand that the preferred way is to submit events via the DBUs API as described here: http://zeitgeist-project.com/docs/0.4/dbus_api.html

Is there some sample code for Java available to write the correct format and message type to dBus?
How to add a datasource via DBus (or otherwise) didn't see it in the doc.

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) said : 		#1

Sorry for the late reply - summer holidays :-)

The "correct" way to do this would be to use the DBus library for Java (hosted somewhere on freedesktop.org I believe) and write complete bindings for the Zeitgeist DBus API, like done for libzeitgeist (see http://people.canonical.com/~kamstrup/projects/libzeitgeist/doc/0.2.2/). This will be somewhat of a detour from you main goal, but would be a highly valued contribution - I may be able to give you some hints along the road if you wanna go there.

Alternatively you can write a simple command line tool in Python (using the zeitgeist Python module with the docs you pointed to), which you then call from Java - not beautiful, but workable until there are full Java bindings ready.

Hope it's enough to help you!

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