[Bug 39644] add custom properties to file transfers

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39644

--- Comment #4 from Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> 2011-11-01 04:36:13 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> I think that a handler should be able to set/add more metadata when it receives
> a channel already created. Also it would be much more useful if metadata could
> be sent as "triples" (e.g. to transfer RDF metadata)

By a similar token, some people might want to send XML metadata, or JSON, or
whatever. They're all equally well-supported by just bunging a string into the
dictionary of metadata.

> Is it possible to add, for example, a method provideMetadata (for the sender)
> and a method acceptMetadata (for the receiver) to get more flexibility?
> These methods should be able to transfer an RDF/XML string...

I don't quite understand what you're after here. You want to send more than one
batch of metadata alongside a file transfer? Could you explain the use case
here a little more? As it is, the sender provides metadata when they create the
FT channel, and the recipient receives it when they receive the offer. Is this
insufficient?

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