D-Bus message protocol

A TypeScript implementation of the D-Bus message protocol.

Installation

npm install d-bus-message-protocol d-bus-type-system

Features

• Designed from the ground up with TypeScript.
• 100% test coverage.
• Depends solely on d-bus-type-system.
• Runs in any ES2020 environment. Uses ArrayBuffer and bigint under the hood.
• Accurate implementation of the D-Bus specification.

Usage example

Serialize a hello message

import {MessageType, serializeMessage} from 'd-bus-message-protocol';

const messageData = serializeMessage({
  messageType: MessageType.MethodCall,
  objectPath: `/org/freedesktop/DBus`,
  interfaceName: `org.freedesktop.DBus`,
  memberName: `Hello`,
  serial: 1,
  destination: `org.freedesktop.DBus`,
});

console.log(messageData);

6c 01 00 01  00 00 00 00  01 00 00 00  6e 00 00 00
06 01 73 00  14 00 00 00  6f 72 67 2e  66 72 65 65
64 65 73 6b  74 6f 70 2e  44 42 75 73  00 00 00 00
01 01 6f 00  15 00 00 00  2f 6f 72 67  2f 66 72 65
65 64 65 73  6b 74 6f 70  2f 44 42 75  73 00 00 00
02 01 73 00  14 00 00 00  6f 72 67 2e  66 72 65 65
64 65 73 6b  74 6f 70 2e  44 42 75 73  00 00 00 00
03 01 73 00  05 00 00 00  48 65 6c 6c  6f 00 00 00

Parse a hello message

import {parseMessages} from 'd-bus-message-protocol';

const messages = parseMessages(messageData);