Announcing snapd-glib

[Robert Ancell]

I blogged an introduction to snapd-glib:
http://bobthegnome.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/introducing-snapd-glib.html

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:33 PM Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> At the Heidelberg sprint we decided to create a library that would allow
> GLib based projects to more easily access snapd and reduce duplication
> across these projects.
>
> I've got the first cut of this done, meet snapd-glib!
>
> - On Launchpad [1]
> - Implements all [2] of the snapd REST API [3].
> - Provides both synchronous and asynchronous methods
> - Supports GObject introspection (i.e. Python etc support)
> - Supports Vala.
> - Will support Qt/QML in the future [4].
> - Uploaded to Ubuntu Yakkety, will be there once it is accepted into the
> NEW queue. Use the libsnapd-glib-dev or gir1.2-snapd-0 packages.
> - Currently using so version number 0 - ABI is not guaranteed to be stable
> until we go to 1.
> - Will SRU to Ubuntu 14.04 once the API/ABI is stable.
>
> Here's a taste of the API:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import gi
>
> gi.require_version ('Snapd', '0')
> from gi.repository import Snapd
>
> c = Snapd.Client ()
> c.connect_sync ()
> snaps = c.list_sync ()
> for s in snaps:
>     print s.get_name () + ' ' + s.get_version ()
>
> Happy Hacking! (And patches welcome).
>
> --Robert
>
> [1] http://launchpad.net/snapd-glib
> [2] OK, just the main stuff and what I was able to get to work. But the
> goal is to access everything there.
> [3] https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/master/docs/rest.md
> [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614797
>
>
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