[Telepathy] Uniqueness of objects

[Simon McVittie]

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On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 at 13:12:18 +0300, Olli Salli wrote:
> in fact, QDBus already does dbus_bus_get_private to get one instance
> of a DBusConnection for the session, system and starter buses, and
> shares that between all users of QDBusConnection::sessionBus() etc.

Ah, brilliant. So telepathy-glib, telepathy-qt4 and telepathy-python can
never end up sharing a DBusConnection, since dbus-glib is the only
binding still using the "shared" connection :-)

> Some wizardry certainly needs to be performed even inside TelepathyQt4
> to prevent using multiple Connection objects associated with the same
> remote connection - namely, not keeping the reference counter inside a
> single Connection object, but share it between Connections using a
> (bus uuid, remote conn service name) -> refcounter mapping.

Agreed. telepathy-glib will need to do this too (I'm working on code for
that today).

    Simon
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