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<a name="id-1.5.5"></a>Migrating to GDBus</h2></div></div></div>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="ch35.html#id-1.5.5.2">Conceptual differences</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="ch35s02.html">API comparison</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="ch35s03.html">Owning bus names</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="ch35s04.html">Creating proxies for well-known names</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="gdbus-example-gdbus-codegen.html">Using gdbus-codegen</a></span></dt>
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<a name="id-1.5.5.2"></a>Conceptual differences</h2></div></div></div>
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      The central concepts of D-Bus are modelled in a very similar way
      in dbus-glib and GDBus. Both have a objects representing connections,
      proxies and method invocations. But there are some important
      differences:
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          dbus-glib uses the <a class="ulink" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus#ReferenceImplementation.28dbus-daemonandlibdbus.29" target="_top">libdbus
          reference implementation</a>, GDBus doesn't. Instead, it
          relies on GIO streams as transport layer, and has its own
          implementation for the D-Bus connection setup and
          authentication. Apart from using streams as transport,
          avoiding libdbus also lets GDBus avoid some thorny
          multithreading issues.
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<li class="listitem"><p>
          dbus-glib uses the GObject type system for method arguments and
          return values, including a homegrown container specialization
          mechanism. GDBus relies on the <a href="../glib-GVariant.html#GVariant"><span class="type">GVariant</span></a> type system which is
          explicitly designed to match D-Bus types.
        </p></li>
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          dbus-glib models only D-Bus interfaces and does not provide
          any types for objects. GDBus models both D-Bus interfaces
          (via the <a class="link" href="GDBusInterface.html" title="GDBusInterface"><span class="type">GDBusInterface</span></a>, <a class="link" href="GDBusProxy.html" title="GDBusProxy"><span class="type">GDBusProxy</span></a> and
          <a class="link" href="GDBusInterfaceSkeleton.html" title="GDBusInterfaceSkeleton"><span class="type">GDBusInterfaceSkeleton</span></a> types) and objects (via the
          <a class="link" href="GDBusObject.html" title="GDBusObject"><span class="type">GDBusObject</span></a>, <a class="link" href="GDBusObjectSkeleton.html" title="GDBusObjectSkeleton"><span class="type">GDBusObjectSkeleton</span></a> and <a class="link" href="GDBusObjectProxy.html" title="GDBusObjectProxy"><span class="type">GDBusObjectProxy</span></a> types).
        </p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
          GDBus includes native support for the <a class="ulink" href="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#standard-interfaces-properties" target="_top">org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties</a> (via the <a class="link" href="GDBusProxy.html" title="GDBusProxy"><span class="type">GDBusProxy</span></a> type) and <a class="ulink" href="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#standard-interfaces-objectmanager" target="_top">org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager</a> D-Bus interfaces, dbus-glib doesn't.
        </p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
          The typical way to export an object in dbus-glib involves
          generating glue code from XML introspection data using
          <span class="command"><strong>dbus-binding-tool</strong></span>. GDBus provides a
          similar tool called <span class="command"><strong>gdbus-codegen</strong></span> that
          can also generate Docbook D-Bus interface documentation.
        </p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
          dbus-glib doesn't provide any convenience API for owning and
          watching bus names, GDBus provides the <a class="link" href="gio-Owning-Bus-Names.html#g-bus-own-name" title="g_bus_own_name ()"><code class="function">g_bus_own_name()</code></a> and
          <a class="link" href="gio-Watching-Bus-Names.html#g-bus-watch-name" title="g_bus_watch_name ()"><code class="function">g_bus_watch_name()</code></a> family of convenience functions.
        </p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
          GDBus provides API to parse, generate and work with <a class="link" href="gio-D-Bus-Introspection-Data.html" title="D-Bus Introspection Data">Introspection
          XML</a>, dbus-glib doesn't.
        </p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
          GTestDBus provides API to create isolated unit tests GDBus Test Scaffolding.
        </p></li>
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