Packages: gio-2.0 D-Bus Program: client async void run () { try { var bus = yield Bus.@get (BusType.SESSION); dynamic DBusProxy test = yield new DBusProxy (bus, DBusProxyFlags.NONE, null, bus.get_unique_name (), "/org/example/test", "org.example.Test"); string s; int i = test.do_foo (42, out s); assert (i == 23); assert (s == "foo"); } catch { } main_loop.quit (); } MainLoop main_loop; void main () { main_loop = new MainLoop (); run.begin (); main_loop.run (); } Program: server [DBus (name = "org.example.Test")] class Test : Object { public int do_foo (int i, out string s) throws Error { assert (i == 42); s = "foo"; return 23; } } MainLoop main_loop; void client_exit (Pid pid, int status) { // client finished, terminate server assert (status == 0); main_loop.quit (); } void main () { var conn = Bus.get_sync (BusType.SESSION); conn.register_object ("/org/example/test", new Test ()); // try to register service in session bus var request_result = conn.call_sync ("org.freedesktop.DBus", "/org/freedesktop/DBus", "org.freedesktop.DBus", "RequestName", new Variant ("(su)", "org.example.Test", 0x4), null, 0, -1); assert ((uint) request_result.get_child_value (0) == 1); // server ready, spawn client Pid client_pid; Process.spawn_async (null, { "dbus_dynamic_method_client" }, null, SpawnFlags.DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD, null, out client_pid); ChildWatch.add (client_pid, client_exit); main_loop = new MainLoop (); main_loop.run (); }