[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 483250] [0.11] GstURIHandler should use interface properties instead of (or additional to) get/set methods

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------- Comment #2 from René Stadler  2007-10-05 19:08 UTC -------
It would mean that all elements implementing GstURIHandler would have a common
standard property that stores the URI.  This one should most probably be named
"uri", but this means that all elements that already have a "location" property
grow another property that does exactly the same.

I love this idea (for 0.11); it seems to bring the best of everything:

 - The inability of setting the URI from a launch line is resolved elegantly. 
>From time to time, people request that a property to set the URI is added to
element XY because of this.  You know something is wrong with the design if you
find yourself being on both sides (for and against this) in different cases
(note how I gave the gio elements location properties, while I'm otherwise
stricly against this, eeek).

 - Generated UIs for property manipulation lose redundancy (Stefan's remark). 
This is because apps will know exactly that the "uri" property is from the
interface, which means they can hide it if they set the URI elsewhere and they
can drop special handling of the URIHandler interface (which you need for
0.10).

 - Unless elements explicitely override the details of the param spec, the
"uri" property of all URIHandlers will have a consistent description
automatically.

I think doing this for 0.10 already (with the property named "location"
instead) causes more problems than it solves.


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