[Telepathy] obtaining handles to contacts to establish a text channel

[harini satyanarayanan]

It does not throw any error while creating the handle, it creates a
handle but later when it comes to creating the interface and the text
channel it throws an error that the handle is not valid.

when i print the handle it always prints the same number 152352 for
any contact i mention. here is the output of the code

 handle for text channel = 152352
 Attempting to create a text channel object.
mission-control-test[1310]: GLIB WARNING ** default - RequestChannel()
failed: handle 152352 is not currently a valid contact handle (type 1)
(org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.InvalidArgument)
mission-control-test[1310]: GLIB WARNING ** default - Failed to create
a channel (tp_chan) object.
mission-control-test[1310]: GLIB CRITICAL ** default -
tp_chan_get_interface: assertion `self != NULL' failed
Could not acquire text interface proxy for channel for pending messages
mission-control-test[1310]: GLIB CRITICAL ** default -
tp_chan_get_interface: assertion `self != NULL' failed
Could not acquire text interface proxy for channel for sending messages

this is the handle i get for any contact i mention. I just randomly
changed the handle numbers and i figured out that it accepts any
number from  2 to 62 since i have 62 contacts also when handle is 1 it
is self messaging.

I tried only giving the contact name still no change. any help or
pointers is greatly appreciated

thanks
harini

On Feb 19, 2008 4:16 AM, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:16:13PM -0500, harini satyanarayanan wrote:
> > It throws an error that didnt get handle for contact. If this is wrong
> > then how do i mention the contact to which i have to send the message.
> >
> > const gchar* lists1[] = { "contact at gmail.com", NULL };
> >          GArray *handles1 = NULL;
> >
> >     if (!tp_conn_request_handles (DBUS_G_PROXY(tp_connection),
> > TP_HANDLE_TYPE_CONTACT, lists,  &handles1, &error))  {
> >
> >       g_warning("Didn't get a handle for the '%s' list\n", lists1[0]);
>
> I don't see any obvious mistakes here. But you might want to print
> error->message, to see what causes RequestHandles to fail.
>
>   Sjoerd
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