[Telepathy] [Bug 17080] New: Special-case for the self-handle in GetKnownAvatarTokens is counterintuitive .

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17080

           Summary: Special-case for the self-handle in GetKnownAvatarTokens
                    is counterintuitive.
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: telepathy-spec
        AssignedTo: telepathy at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: will.thompson at collabora.co.uk


For any non-self-handle, GetKnownAvatarTokens only returns the token if it is
already known.  For self-handle, it is required to know the token for the
avatar if one is set, and only to omit the self-handle from the results if it's
really unset.  Clients are meant to rely on this special case to figure out
whether they need to re-set the avatar on connect because your avatar doesn't
persist between connections on the protocol in question.

It seems awkward to use a side-effect of this method's surprising definition to
figure this out.  We might want to add RequestSelfAvatarToken, or add a flag
saying that we have our own token.


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