[Bug 28866] Allow channel requesters to associate metadata with requests for the benefit of other clients

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28866

--- Comment #17 from Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> 2010-10-26 03:11:33 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> To-do list
> ==========
> 
> Should SucceededWithChannel have the immutable properties of the channel? I
> think it probably should, but I haven't added this yet.

Yes.

> Should SucceededWithChannel be plural? In principle, a ChannelRequest could
> operate on a hypothetical plural request, and return many channels... although
> plural requests are a tower of cans, each containing worms.

I think it's way simpler to keep it singular.

> Should SucceededWithChannel give you properties of the Connection? Probably
> not, IMO: connections don't have many (useful) properties that are actually
> immutable!

Also probably not.

> Should we explicitly say that the CD will never interpret Hints? I think we
> should, and I've added a commit that says so.
> 
> While we're adding new ways to request channels, should we add an a{sv}
> placeholder for extra arguments that the channel dispatcher *does* interpret?
> (Obviously, this is unnecessary if you convince me that my previous assertion
> was wrong.)

I think we can just say that Hints isn't interpreted by the CD for now; later,
if we want, we can add properly-namespaced hints that it does interpret.

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