[Bug 39644] add custom properties to file transfers

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39644

--- Comment #5 from Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> 2011-11-01 04:41:30 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > I think that a handler should be able to set/add more metadata when it receives
> > a channel already created. Also it would be much more useful if metadata could
> > be sent as "triples" (e.g. to transfer RDF metadata)
> 
> By a similar token, some people might want to send XML metadata, or JSON, or
> whatever. They're all equally well-supported by just bunging a string into the
> dictionary of metadata.

It could be argued that a{ss} is overly restrictive for the metadata parameter,
and we could support more types for the values (cf.
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/Channel_Interface_Tube.html#Property:Parameters).
But…

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