[Telepathy] API Draft for high level tubes in tp-qt4

[Dario Freddi]

Hello,

please find attached a new version of tp-qt4 high level tubes.

This time they're really high level - I tried keeping the API (and parameters 
as well) as similar as possible to tp-qt4 file transfers - it also features 
the same mean of creation by using TubeChannelCreationProperties.

My only concern is if it is possible to obtain all the needed properties from 
a QIODevice when offering/creating a StreamTube.

(The package does not include the new functions in Account, but they're 
obviously there)

Please comment on this one - if you're happy enough, I'll start hacking on 
them straight away ;)

On Monday 19 April 2010 19:57:40 Andre Moreira Magalhaes wrote:
> On 18/04/10 10:09, Dario Freddi wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > as discussed with Andre on IRC, I drafted a small API for managing Tubes
> > in tp-qt4 (see attachment). There's really nothing fancy here: it's a
> > quite straightforward mapping of the spec to a Qt-like API, and it's
> > mostly what tp- glib does as well.
> > 
> > Still, I'd find it cool to provide a function returning a QAbstractSocket
> > for StreamTubes and a QDBusConnection (or a DBusProxy) for DBusTubes to
> > make it extremely easy to use the opened tube. I'd like some feedback on
> > that though, since I don't know how much it would be feasible.
> 
> I like the overall idea, but I would change some things as:
> - ST and DT should be implemented similarly to FileTransfer channels
> where we have Incoming/Outgoing channels depending on the requested
> property of the channel.
> - For ST you probably want to return a QIODevice on accept, or a
> PendingIODevice (you name it) of some sort, so you can instantiate a Qt
> Socket object (QLocal/Tcp/UdpSocket) depending on the type of the socket.
> 
> You may want to check how FT is implemented in tp-qt4 and get some ideas
> from there.
> 
> BR
> Andre

-- 
-------------------

Dario Freddi
KDE Developer
GPG Key Signature: 511A9A3B
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: high-level-tubes-v2.tar.gz
Type: application/x-compressed-tar
Size: 3996 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/attachments/20100424/c4fc53ac/attachment.bin>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/attachments/20100424/c4fc53ac/attachment.pgp>