Packages: gio-2.0 D-Bus Program: client [DBus (name = "org.example.Test")] interface Test : Object { [DBus (name = "Baz")] public signal void bar (string j); } MainLoop main_loop; void main () { // client Test test = Bus.get_proxy_sync (BusType.SESSION, "org.example.Test", "/org/example/test"); unowned DBusProxy proxy = (DBusProxy) test; unowned DBusInterfaceInfo? iface_info = proxy.get_interface_info (); assert (iface_info != null); assert (iface_info.signals != null); assert (iface_info.signals[0] != null); assert (iface_info.signals[0].name == "Baz"); assert (iface_info.signals[0].args != null); assert (iface_info.signals[0].args[0] != null); assert (iface_info.signals[0].args[0].signature == "s"); assert (iface_info == (DBusInterfaceInfo?) typeof (Test).get_qdata (Quark.from_string ("vala-dbus-interface-info"))); } Program: server [DBus (name = "org.example.Test")] class Test : Object { public signal void foo (int i); } 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_interface_info_client" }, null, SpawnFlags.DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD, null, out client_pid); ChildWatch.add (client_pid, client_exit); main_loop = new MainLoop (); main_loop.run (); }