/** \page page_tutorial3 Tutorial - Part 3: Forcing a roundtrip \ref page_tutorial2 | \ref page_tutorial "Index" | \ref page_tutorial4 In this tutorial we show how to force a roundtrip to the server to make sure an action completed. We'll change our example from \ref page_tutorial2 "Tutorial 2" slightly and add the extra code to implement the roundtrip. Let's take the following small method first: \snippet tutorial3.c roundtrip Let's take a look at what this method does. \code{.c} struct spa_hook core_listener; spa_zero(core_listener); pw_core_add_listener(core, &core_listener, &core_events, NULL); \endcode First of all we add a listener for the events of the core object. We are only interested in the `done` event in this tutorial. This is the event handler: \code{.c} int pending, done = 0; void core_event_done(void *object, uint32_t id, int seq) { if (id == PW_ID_CORE && seq == pending) { done = 1; pw_main_loop_quit(loop); } } const struct pw_core_events core_events = { PW_VERSION_CORE_EVENTS, .done = core_event_done, }; \endcode When the done event is received for an object with id `PW_ID_CORE` and a certain sequence number `seq`, this function will set the done variable to 1 and call `pw_main_loop_quit()`. Next we do: \code{.c} pending = pw_core_sync(core, PW_ID_CORE, 0); \endcode This triggers the `sync` method on the core object with id `PW_ID_CORE` and sequence number 0. Because this is a method on a proxy object, it will be executed asynchronously and the returns value will reflect this. PipeWire uses the return values of the underlying SPA (Simple Plugin API) helper objects (See also [error codes](spa-design.md#error-codes)). Because all messages on the PipeWire server are handled sequentially, the sync method will be executed after all previous methods are completed. The PipeWire server will emit a `done` event with the same ID and the return value of the original `pw_core_sync()` method in the sequence number. We then run the mainloop to send the messages to the server and receive the events: \code{.c} while (!done) { pw_main_loop_run(loop); } \endcode When we get the done event, we can compare it to the sync method and then we know that we did a complete roundtrip and there are no more pending methods on the server. We can quit the mainloop and remove the listener: \code{.c} spa_hook_remove(&core_listener); \endcode If we add this roundtrip method to our code and call it instead of the `pw_main_loop_run()` we will exit the program after all previous methods are finished. This means that the `pw_core_get_registry()` call completed and thus that we also received all events for the globals on the server. \snippet tutorial3.c code To compile the simple test application, copy it into a tutorial3.c file and use: gcc -Wall tutorial3.c -o tutorial3 $(pkg-config --cflags --libs libpipewire-0.3) Now that our program completes, we can take a look at how we can destroy the objects we created. Let's destroy each of them in reverse order that we created them: \code{.c} pw_proxy_destroy((struct pw_proxy*)registry); \endcode The registry is a proxy and can be destroyed with the generic proxy destroy method. After destroying the object, you should not use it anymore. It is an error to destroy an object more than once. We can disconnect from the server with: \code{.c} pw_core_disconnect(core); \endcode This will also destroy the core proxy object and will remove the proxies that might have been created on this connection. We can finally destroy our context and mainloop to conclude this tutorial: \code{.c} pw_context_destroy(context); pw_main_loop_destroy(loop); \endcode \ref page_tutorial2 | \ref page_tutorial "Index" | \ref page_tutorial4 */