[Telepathy] Running telepathy-example-inspect-channel/ telepathy-example-inspect-contact

[ved kpl]

Hi Simon,

Worked like a charm!!!
Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Vikram

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Simon McVittie
<simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 at 14:37:50 +0530, ved kpl wrote:
>> ../telepathy-example-inspect-channel
>> org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.gabble.jabber.ved_2ekpl_40gmail_2ecom_2f03b90df6.ImChannel2
>
> That's not a Connection, but delete the ".ImChannel2" from the end and you'll
> get the Connection's bus name.
>
>> /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Connection/gabble/jabber/ved_2ekpl_40gmail_2ecom_2f03b90df6/ImChannel2
>
> That looks like a correct Channel, though. Channels are "smaller than"
> Connections; that example expects you to specify a Connection, followed by a
> Channel belonging to that Connection.
>
> One possible sequence to demonstrate the "low-level" examples, which I should
> put in examples/README or something, is:
>
> (1) run examples/client/telepathy-example-list-connections (which does not need
>    any command line arguments) to list all connections by their bus name,
>    for instance I get:
>
>    ** Message: Found 6 connections:
>    ...
>    ** Message: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.gabble.jabber.simon_2emcvittie_40collabora_2eco_2euk_2fEmpathy
>    ** Message: - CM gabble, protocol jabber
>    ...
>
> (2) run examples/client/telepathy-example-inspect-connection with one of those
>    bus names as parameter; one of the things it lists is all the channels.
>    For instance I'd run this:
>
>    examples/client/telepathy-example-inspect-connection \
>    org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.gabble.jabber.simon_2emcvittie_40collabora_2eco_2euk_2fEmpathy
>
>    and I get this output:
>
>    Connection ready
>    ...
>    Channel: /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Connection/gabble/jabber/simon_2emcvittie_40collabora_2eco_2euk_2fEmpathy/RosterChannel/List/stored
>        Type: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.ContactList
>        Handle: type 3, #1
>
> (3) run examples/client/telepathy-example-inspect-channel and give it the
>    connection name from (1), and the channel path from (2). For instance I'd
>    run this:
>
>    examples/client/telepathy-example-inspect-connection \
>    org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.gabble.jabber.simon_2emcvittie_40collabora_2eco_2euk_2fEmpathy \
>    /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Connection/gabble/jabber/simon_2emcvittie_40collabora_2eco_2euk_2fEmpathy/RosterChannel/List/stored
>
> As for examples/client/telepathy-example-inspect-contact, it expects to be
> given the bus name or object path of a Connection (as used in (2)), optionally
> followed by a contact ID (a JID if you're using XMPP, a Passport if you're
> using MSN, and so on). It'll tell you a bit about that contact, or if you
> didn't give it a contact, it'll tell you a bit about yourself.
>
> Hope this helps,
>    Simon
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