Hi

I'm using the dbus interface to control/monitor ktorrent version 3.3.4. I can make calls using python dbus to get torrent info i.e. list, names, speed etc, however I cant find a way of getting a runtime state i.e. started, stopped, completed, etc. I have to try to calculate this by looking at the dld stats, which i dont think is correct. Is there a proper way to get this info?

Also in the GUI you can see groups i.e active,passive, running, not running etc. I could use this information to derive the torrent state, however these default groups appear not to be available via dbus either. I can see manually created ones.

Can anyone comment/help please?

ps. I think ktorrent is the best torrent app there is.

Thanks

Chris

im now at version 4.2 dev, still the same story, no run state in the torrents. I might look into adding this myself. it'd be a good place to start..

There is the stats call which returns at lot of information in a bencoded manner, including the current status in the form of a string.

thanks, works nicely with the bencode linked below

http://effbot.org/zone/bencode.htm

171 def decode_torrents(self):
172 torrents = self.core.torrents()
173 for t in torrents:
174 tor = self.get_tor_if(t)
175 data = tor.stats(byte_arrays=True)
176 data = bencode.decode(data)
177 print tor.name(),data["status"]