+/** \file client.h Definitions and functions for the client API over D-Bus */
+
+/** \example glib-integration.c Example of how to integrate
+ * avahi use with GLIB/GTK applications */
+
+AVAHI_C_DECL_BEGIN
+
+/** A connection context */
+typedef struct AvahiClient AvahiClient;
+
+/** States of a client object, a superset of AvahiServerState */
+typedef enum {
+ AVAHI_CLIENT_S_REGISTERING = AVAHI_SERVER_REGISTERING, /**< Server state: REGISTERING */
+ AVAHI_CLIENT_S_RUNNING = AVAHI_SERVER_RUNNING, /**< Server state: RUNNING */
+ AVAHI_CLIENT_S_COLLISION = AVAHI_SERVER_COLLISION, /**< Server state: COLLISION */
+ AVAHI_CLIENT_FAILURE = 100, /**< Some kind of error happened on the client side */
+ AVAHI_CLIENT_CONNECTING = 101 /**< We're still connecting. This state is only entered when AVAHI_CLIENT_NO_FAIL has been passed to avahi_client_new() and the daemon is not yet available. */
+} AvahiClientState;
+
+typedef enum {
+ AVAHI_CLIENT_IGNORE_USER_CONFIG = 1, /**< Don't read user configuration */
+ AVAHI_CLIENT_NO_FAIL = 2 /**< Don't fail if the daemon is not available when avahi_client_new() is called, instead enter AVAHI_CLIENT_CONNECTING state and wait for the daemon to appear */
+} AvahiClientFlags;
+
+/** The function prototype for the callback of an AvahiClient */
+typedef void (*AvahiClientCallback) (AvahiClient *s, AvahiClientState state, void* userdata);
+
+/** Creates a new client instance */
+AvahiClient* avahi_client_new (const AvahiPoll *poll_api, AvahiClientFlags flags, AvahiClientCallback callback, void *userdata, int *error);
+
+/** Free a client instance */
+void avahi_client_free(AvahiClient *client);
+
+/** Get the version of the server */
+const char* avahi_client_get_version_string (AvahiClient*);
+
+/** Get host name */
+const char* avahi_client_get_host_name (AvahiClient*);
+
+/** Get domain name */
+const char* avahi_client_get_domain_name (AvahiClient*);
+
+/** Get FQDN domain name */
+const char* avahi_client_get_host_name_fqdn (AvahiClient*);
+
+/** Get state */
+AvahiClientState avahi_client_get_state(AvahiClient *client);
+
+/** Get the last error number */
+int avahi_client_errno (AvahiClient*);
+
+/** Return the local service cookie. returns AVAHI_SERVICE_COOKIE_INVALID on failure. */
+uint32_t avahi_client_get_local_service_cookie(AvahiClient *client);
+
+/** Return 1 if gethostbyname() supports mDNS lookups, 0 otherwise. \since 0.6.5 */
+int avahi_nss_support(void);
+
+AVAHI_C_DECL_END