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This crate provides types and functions for working with i3's IPC protocol within tokio. It re-exports the crate i3ipc-types
because it is also used for a synchronous version of the code.
I expect the most common use case will be to subscribe to some events and listen:
```rust use std::io; use tokio::stream::StreamExt; use tokio_i3ipc::{ event::{Event, Subscribe}, I3, };
async fn main() -> io::Result<()> { let mut i3 = I3::connect().await?; let resp = i3.subscribe([Subscribe::Window]).await?;
println!("{:#?}", resp);
let mut listener = i3.listen();
while let Some(event) = listener.next().await {
match event? {
Event::Workspace(ev) => println!("workspace change event {:?}", ev),
Event::Window(ev) => println!("window event {:?}", ev),
Event::Output(ev) => println!("output event {:?}", ev),
Event::Mode(ev) => println!("mode event {:?}", ev),
Event::BarConfig(ev) => println!("bar config update {:?}", ev),
Event::Binding(ev) => println!("binding event {:?}", ev),
Event::Shutdown(ev) => println!("shutdown event {:?}", ev),
Event::Tick(ev) => println!("tick event {:?}", ev),
}
}
Ok(())
} ```
Another example, getting all workspaces from i3:
```rust use std::io; use tokio_i3ipc::{reply, I3};
async fn main() -> io::Result<()> { let mut i3 = I3::connect().await?; // this type can be inferred, here is written explicitly: let worksp: reply::Workspaces = i3.get_workspaces().await?; println!("{:#?}", worksp);
Ok(())
} ```
or, you could write any get_*
yourself using the same methods it does:
```rust use std::io; use tokio_i3ipc::{msg, reply, MsgResponse, I3};
async fn main() -> io::Result<()> {
let mut i3 = I3::connect().await?;
// send msg RunCommand with a payload
let payload = "somecommand";
i3.sendmsgbody(msg::Msg::RunCommand, payload).await?;
let resp: MsgResponse
send_msg
, will handle writing to i3. read_msg
and will handle reading.
To send messages to i3, there are a number of convenience methods on I3
.
```rust use std::io; use tokio_i3ipc::{reply, I3};
async fn main() -> io::Result<()> { let mut i3 = I3::connect().await?; // this type can be inferred, here is written explicitly: let outputs = i3.get_outputs().await?; println!("{:#?}", worksp);
Ok(())
} ```
I have a fork of an i3 window-logging application that uses tokio-i3ipc
(https://github.com/leshow/i3-tracker-rs/). The tracker subscribes to window events and logs how much time is spent on each node.