[Telepathy] Offline cache

[Xavier Claessens]

Le vendredi 15 mars 2013 à 09:29 +0100, Xavier Claessens a écrit :
> 2) Avatar cache: offline XMPP contacts does not know their avatar token,
> but we should still announce the last known avatar.
> 
> -> IMHO it makes no sense to write avatars on disk in multiple places,
> so we should reuse the existing avatar cache. So gabble could store on
> disk a contact-id -> avatar-cache-uri map. With the new spec that's
> enough because we expose only the URI to clients.

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> Suggestions
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> - I think 1, 2 and 3 are all already pretty well covered, just need to
> land TpAvatarsMixin work.

Actually 2 is not covered, the contact-id -> avatar-cache-uri map can be
shared with the offline cache exposed in my point 7. So we would have
all contact attributes serialized into a file, we can easily extract the
avatar URI from that.

Regards,
Xavier Claessens.