[Bug 21787] New: Connection.Interface.ContactLists

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21787

           Summary: Connection.Interface.ContactLists
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: low
         Component: telepathy-spec
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk


The current API for contact lists involves a series of named contact list
channels (subscribe, publish, stored, allow, deny) and is in practice rather
complex to work with.

It would be easier if we had a ContactLists interface on the Connection which
looked a lot like the XMPP roster: a list of contacts (the union of the current
subscribe, publish, stored, allow and deny lists), with various flags
indicating whether they are subscribed, subscribed-to, and so on.

We could also use the Contacts interface as the primary accessor for the flags,
potentially leaving ContactLists with one method (GetContactList() -> au,
returning the union of all contact lists - so you do two round-trips to get the
list of contacts plus all their details).

telepathy-qt4's C++ API implements something that looks a lot like this by
merging the information from the current ContactList channels.


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