Tomboy and python, using dbus

Tomboy expose a bunch of methods on the dbus interface.

Dbus is a kind of component-oriented middleware comunicating by messages.

Here http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/09/26/using-the-tomboy-d-bus-interface
I found a description of the dbus interface that tomboy propose to the programmer, so I gave it a try in order to implement a few scripts :

• showAllNotes


• showNotebook myNbkName

The previously cited blog article on arstechnica cites this deeper plugin example.

showAllNotes

#!/usr/bin/env python

## In Tomboy, display all the notes.

## Licence : GPL
## Date    : 2009-01-14 

# This uses the tomboy dbus interface and the methods exposed by tomboy

import sys, dbus, gobject, dbus.glib

# Get the D-Bus session bus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
# Access the Tomboy D-Bus object
obj = bus.get_object("org.gnome.Tomboy", "/org/gnome/Tomboy/RemoteControl")
# Access the Tomboy remote control interface
tomboy = dbus.Interface(obj, "org.gnome.Tomboy.RemoteControl")

# Show every note
for n in tomboy.ListAllNotes(): tomboy.DisplayNote(n)

showNotebook

#!/usr/bin/env python

## In Tomboy, display all the notes labeled under a given "Notebook"

## Licence : GPL
## Date    : 2009-01-14 

# This is based on the underliying Tomboy tag mechanism (unused)
# knowing that a given notebook "mynotebookname" will be under the
# tag : "system:notebook:mynotebookname"
# (Thanks to irc.gnome.org#tomboy:sandy for the hint)


import sys, dbus, gobject, dbus.glib

# Get the D-Bus session bus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
# Access the Tomboy D-Bus object
obj = bus.get_object("org.gnome.Tomboy", "/org/gnome/Tomboy/RemoteControl")
# Access the Tomboy remote control interface
tomboy = dbus.Interface(obj, "org.gnome.Tomboy.RemoteControl")

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
  for note in tomboy.GetAllNotesWithTag("system:notebook:" + "".join(sys.argv[1:])):
    tomboy.DisplayNote(note)
else : sys.stderr.write("Notebook name not specified. Exiting.\n")