API hint

[Leenata Bankhele]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:30 AM, <geoclue-request at lists.freedesktop.org>wrote:

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>   1. Re: No network lib? (Jussi Kukkonen)
>   2. Re: API hint (Jussi Kukkonen)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:58:11 +0200
> From: Jussi Kukkonen <jku at linux.intel.com>
> Subject: Re: No network lib?
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> Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'd like to share my experience debugging an issue I had with geoclue.
> >
> > No matter what I tried, no providers were working, only manual.  So I
> > dug into the code to find out that the providers (such as Hostip) were
> > unavailable.
> >
> > I dug a little further to find out that the net_status was not set
> > because I didn't have libnm*-dev! Therefore all network based providers
> > were discarded.
>
> geoclue_master_client_set_requirements() has a parameter
> "require_updates". Setting that to FALSE should make the master client
> use network based providers even without networkmanager or conic (there
> won't be "changed" signals of course), but now that I test it doesn't
> seem to work. I'll look into it and let you know.
>

I have the same problem. No webservices are working.Tried setting it to
FALSE, but that didn't work. If I don't use the master then can I still
access Geonames Hostip Plazes or Yahoo directly without Networkmanager or
Conic?

>
> > Now it works fine :D
> >
> > I just have lost a good 3 hours looking for why lol
> >
> > I think that by default net_status should be set so that the providers
> > are not discarded if no network library is used.
> >
> > Pierre-Luc
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:23:34 +0200
> From: Jussi Kukkonen <jku at linux.intel.com>
> Subject: Re: API hint
> To: GeoClue <geoclue at lists.freedesktop.org>
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> Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > In GeocluePosition,
> >
> > I think that geoclue_position_get_position_async ()'s callback and the
> > "position-changed" signal's callback should have the same signature,
> > this way we can use the same function.
> >
> > Same for GeoclueAddress.
> >
>
> Hmm, I guess that would make client code a tiny bit simpler. We'd have
> to add a "empty" parameter to the signal handler signature to make room
> for the GError* in the function callback, right? Somehow that sounds
> dirty...
>
>  - Jussi
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