Core

The WpCore API is mostly transparent to lua, as the core object is not exposed to the scripts.

For some functionality, though, the following static functions are exposed.

Core.get_info()

Returns a table with information about the core. The table contains the following fields:

Field	Contains
cookie	The value of `wp_core_get_remote_cookie()`
name	The value of `wp_core_get_remote_name()`
user_name	The value of `wp_core_get_remote_user_name()`
host_name	The value of `wp_core_get_remote_host_name()`
version	The value of `wp_core_get_remote_version()`
properties	The value of `wp_core_get_remote_properties()`

Returns: information about the core
Return type: table

Core.idle_add(callback)

Binds wp_core_idle_add_closure()

Schedules to call callback the next time that the event loop will be idle

Parameters: callback (function) – the function to call; the function takes no arguments and must return true/false, as it is a GSourceFunc: return true to have the event loop call it again the next time it is idle, false to stop calling it and remove the associated GSource
Returns: the GSource associated with this idle callback
Return type: GSource, see GSource.destroy()

Core.timeout_add(timeout_ms, callback)

Binds wp_core_timeout_add_closure()

Schedules to call callback after timeout_ms milliseconds

Parameters: callback (function) – the function to call; the function takes no arguments and must return true/false, as it is a GSourceFunc: return true to have the event loop call it again periodically every timeout_ms milliseconds, false to stop calling it and remove the associated GSource
Returns: the GSource associated with this idle callback
Return type: GSource, see GSource.destroy()

GSource.destroy(self)

For the purpose of working with Core.idle_add() and Core.timeout_add(), the GSource object that is returned by those functions contains this method.

Call this method to destroy the source, so that the associated callback is not called again. This can be used to stop a repeating timer callback or just to abort some idle operation

This method binds g_source_destroy

Core.sync(callback)

Binds wp_core_sync()

Calls callback after synchronizing the transaction state with PipeWire

Parameters: callback (function) – a function to be called after syncing with PipeWire; the function takes one argument that will be an error string, if something went wrong and nil otherwise and returns nothing

Core.quit(): Quits the current wpexec process

Note

This can only be called when the script is running in wpexec; if it is running in the main WirePlumber daemon, it will print a warning and do nothing

Core.require_api(..., callback)

Ensures that the specified API plugins are loaded.

API plugins are plugins that provide some API extensions for use in scripts. These plugins must always have their name end in “-api” and the names specified here must not have the “-api” extension.

For instance, the “mixer-api” module provides an API to change volume/mute controls from scripts, via action signals. It can be used like this:

Core.require_api("mixer", function(mixer)
  -- get the volume of node 35
  local volume = mixer:call("get-volume", 35)

  -- the return value of "get-volume" is a GVariant(a{sv}),
  -- which gets translated to a Lua table
  Debug.dump_table(volume)
end)

See also the example in GObject.call()

Note

This can only be called when the script is running in wpexec; if it is running in the main WirePlumber daemon, it will print a warning and do nothing

Parameters

... (strings) – a list of string arguments, which specify the names of the api plugins to load, if they are not already loaded
callback – the function to call after the plugins have been loaded; this function takes references to the plugins as parameters