[Telepathy] Offline cache

[Xavier Claessens]

Le vendredi 15 mars 2013 à 10:06 -0500, Matthias Gehre a écrit :
> When I read the telepathy spec
> Connection.Interface.ContactList.ContactListPersists
> 
> seemed to imply that the client would save the contact list if that
> property
> is set to false. But now I believe that no client actually looks at
> that property.

Oh forgot about that property. The spec does not force any local storage
format, like I described, but something like that would be needed in
that case, yes.

> 
> 
> 2013/3/15 Xavier Claessens <xclaesse at gmail.com>
> >
> > Le vendredi 15 mars 2013 à 08:50 -0500, Matthias Gehre a écrit :
> > > I'm currently implementing a connection manager for WhatsApp,
> which
> > > does not allow
> > > to request the roster at all. So we have to keep a copy of known
> > > contacts (from adding them/receiving messages from them)
> >
> > This is the same situation than telepathy-sofiasip. Thanks for
> bringing
> > this, I did not cover that case.
> >
> > I'm wondering if the CM should implement the ContactList interfaces
> > anyway, but keep the roster information locally in a file instead of
> > relying on server storage. For this, it could use the offline
> storage I
> > describe in my point 6. So all API like adding/removing contacts,
> > setting an alias, etc will just work like any other protocol.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Xavier Claessens.
> >
> >
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