[Telepathy] Handle Uniqueness

Daniel d'Andrada Tenório de Carvalho daniel.carvalho at indt.org.br
Mon Jul 17 14:57:04 PDT 2006


Hi,

The spec (.13) currently doesn't make any statement about its handle 
uniqueness. It's not clear whether, within a connection, a handle alone 
identifies a resource uniquely or if only a tuple (handle_type, handle) 
does that.

By the methods' signatures the second option seens to be the case, but I 
think that having handle uniqueness (instead of per type) would make the 
spec more elegant (as a handle alone would have a unique ID status, 
which is a widespread concept) and you would also discard the 
handle_type parameter from HoldHandles, InspectHandles and ReleaseHandles.

Anyway, regardless of what option is finally chosen, the uniqueness 
concept adopted must be clearly stated in the spec.

Regards,
Daniel d'Andrada T. de Carvalho - INdT


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