[Bug 32844] New: Allow Gabble plugins to provide additional TpChannelManager implementations

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32844

           Summary: Allow Gabble plugins to provide additional
                    TpChannelManager implementations
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: git master
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: love
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: gabble
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: will.thompson at collabora.co.uk
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org


Currently Gabble plugins can provide sidecars, and new statuses (using privacy
lists). They can't implement additional channel managers; nor are they notified
of connections' existence unless someone requests one of their sidecars.

Gabble hands a GPtrArray of implementations of TpChannelManager from its
_gabble_connection_create_channel_managers() function (which implements
create_channel_managers in TpBaseConnectionClass). A corresponding method could
be added to GabblePluginInterface:

    typedef GPtrArray * (*GabblePluginCreateChannelManagersImpl) (
        GabblePlugin *self,
        GabbleConnection *connection);

    struct _GabblePluginInterface {
        // ...

        GabblePluginCreateChannelManagersImpl create_channel_managers;
    };

and a method would be added to GabblePluginLoader:

    GPtrArray *gabble_plugin_loader_create_channel_managers (
        GabblePluginLoader *self,
        GabbleConnection *connection);

This function, rather like gabble_plugin_loader_create_sidecar, would iterate
across all plugins and, if present, call their create_channel_managers
implementation. It would concatenate all the results and return them. Then
_gabble_connection_create_channel_managers() could call this function and add
its result to the GPtrArray that it gives to tp-glib.

It'd be convenient to allow plugins to return NULL from
create_channel_managers, so plugins that wanted to piggy-back onto connections
without actually implementing any channel classes could implement this method,
get called for each new connection, and just return NULL.

(I would normally think that this method should return GList *, because
concatenating GPtrArrays is tedious and clumsy. Plus this gives us the
NULL-return thing for free, since the empty GList is just a NULL pointer. But
the telepathy-glib method at the top of it all wants a GPtrArray, so … I could
be convinced either way.)

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