[next] telepathy-spec: Renaming: emit new identifier in Renamed signals
Simon McVittie
smcv at kemper.freedesktop.org
Mon Nov 4 14:41:24 CET 2013
Module: telepathy-spec
Branch: next
Commit: fd0103d3786249bf12a9dc1533c499c10f607cdd
URL: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-spec/commit/?id=fd0103d3786249bf12a9dc1533c499c10f607cdd
Author: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk>
Date: Mon Oct 14 17:19:18 2013 +0100
Renaming: emit new identifier in Renamed signals
As a general design principle, signals that announce a new handle
should announce its identifier too. This lets client libraries
construct a TpContact, Tp::Contact etc. without a round trip.
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25147
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume.desmottes at collabora.co.uk>
---
spec/Connection_Interface_Renaming1.xml | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/spec/Connection_Interface_Renaming1.xml b/spec/Connection_Interface_Renaming1.xml
index 7c480da..5a5e2b7 100644
--- a/spec/Connection_Interface_Renaming1.xml
+++ b/spec/Connection_Interface_Renaming1.xml
@@ -27,11 +27,23 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
The handle of the original identifier
</tp:docstring>
</arg>
- <arg name="New" type="u" tp:type="Contact_Handle">
+ <arg name="New_Handle" type="u" tp:type="Contact_Handle">
<tp:docstring>
The handle of the new identifier
</tp:docstring>
</arg>
+ <arg name="New_Identifier" type="s">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>The normalized identifier corresponding to New_Handle.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>Providing this immediately means that client libraries
+ can do useful things with this signal (log the change,
+ construct contact objects, etc.) without an additional
+ round-trip to find the corresponding string.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </arg>
<tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>Emitted when the unique identifier of a contact on the server
changes.</p>
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