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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2009-03-17 19:53:52 +0000
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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<node name="/Channel_Type_Contact_Search" xmlns:tp="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/DbusSpec#extensions-v0">
- <tp:copyright> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Collabora Limited </tp:copyright>
- <tp:copyright> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Nokia Corporation </tp:copyright>
- <tp:copyright> Copyright (C) 2006 INdT </tp:copyright>
+ <tp:copyright> Copyright © 2005-2009 Collabora Limited </tp:copyright>
+ <tp:copyright> Copyright © 2005-2009 Nokia Corporation </tp:copyright>
+ <tp:copyright> Copyright © 2006 INdT </tp:copyright>
<tp:license xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -18,135 +18,394 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details.</p>
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</p>
</tp:license>
- <interface name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.ContactSearch"
- tp:causes-havoc='not well-tested'>
+ <interface name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.ContactSearch.DRAFT"
+ tp:causes-havoc='experimental'>
<tp:requires interface="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel"/>
- <tp:struct name="Search_Key_Info">
- <tp:docstring>A struct representing details on search strings.</tp:docstring>
- <tp:member type="b" name="Is_Mandatory">
- <tp:docstring>Booleans indicating if the search key is mandatory.
- </tp:docstring>
- </tp:member>
- <tp:member type="g" name="Type_Signature">
- <tp:docstring>The type signature of the value for this search key.
- </tp:docstring>
- </tp:member>
- </tp:struct>
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>A channel type for searching server-stored user directories. A new
+ channel should be requested by a client for each search attempt, and
+ closed when the search is completed or the required result has been
+ found in order to free unused handles.</p>
- <tp:mapping name="Search_Key_Info_Map">
- <tp:docstring>A dictionary mapping string search key names to its search details.
- </tp:docstring>
- <tp:member type="s" name="Term"/>
- <tp:member type="(bg)" tp:type="Search_Key_Info" name="Details"/>
- </tp:mapping>
+ <p>Before searching, the
+ <tp:member-ref>AvailableSearchKeys</tp:member-ref> property should be
+ inspected to determine the valid search keys which can be provided to
+ the <tp:member-ref>Search</tp:member-ref> method. A search request is
+ then started by providing some of these terms to the Search method, and
+ the <tp:member-ref>SearchState</tp:member-ref> will change from
+ <code>Not_Started</code> to <code>In_Progress</code>. As results are
+ returned by the server, the
+ <tp:member-ref>SearchResultReceived</tp:member-ref> signal is emitted
+ for each contact found; when the search is complete, the search state
+ will be set to <code>Completed</code>. If the search fails after Search
+ has been called, the state will change to <code>Failed</code>. A
+ running search can be cancelled by calling
+ <tp:member-ref>Stop</tp:member-ref>.</p>
+
+ <p>The client should call the channel's <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel">Close</tp:dbus-ref>
+ method when it is finished with the channel, so that any handles held
+ only by the channel can be released.</p>
+
+ <p>Each channel can only be used for a single search; a new channel
+ should be requested for each subsequent search. Connection managers
+ MUST support multiple ContactSearch channels being open at once (even
+ to the same server, if applicable).</p>
+
+ <p>It does not make sense to request this channel type using <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.Requests">EnsureChannel</tp:dbus-ref>;
+ clients SHOULD request channels of this type using
+ <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.Requests">CreateChannel</tp:dbus-ref>
+ instead.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>A contact search channel that is already in use for a different
+ search isn't useful.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </tp:docstring>
- <method name="GetSearchKeys" tp:name-for-bindings="Get_Search_Keys">
- <arg direction="out" type="s">
- <tp:docstring>
- A string with any instructions from the server
- </tp:docstring>
- </arg>
- <arg direction="out" type="a{s(bg)}" tp:type="Search_Key_Info_Map">
- <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- A dictionary mapping string search key names to its search details.
- </tp:docstring>
- </arg>
- <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- <p>Returns any instructions from the server along with a dictionary of
- search key names to their types, and a boolean indicating if the key is
- mandatory. The following well-known search key names should be used
- where appropriate:</p>
- <dl>
- <dt>s:first</dt><dd>The desired contact's given name</dd>
- <dt>s:last</dt><dd>The desired contact's family name</dd>
- <dt>s:nick</dt><dd>The desired contact's nickname</dd>
- <dt>s:email</dt><dd>The e-mail address of the desired contact</dd>
- </dl>
- </tp:docstring>
- <tp:possible-errors>
- <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.Disconnected"/>
- <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.NetworkError"/>
- <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.NotAvailable"/>
- </tp:possible-errors>
- </method>
<tp:enum name="Channel_Contact_Search_State" type="u">
- <tp:enumvalue suffix="Before" value="0">
+ <tp:enumvalue suffix="Not_Started" value="0">
<tp:docstring>The search has not started</tp:docstring>
</tp:enumvalue>
- <tp:enumvalue suffix="During" value="1">
+ <tp:enumvalue suffix="In_Progress" value="1">
<tp:docstring>The search is in progress</tp:docstring>
</tp:enumvalue>
- <tp:enumvalue suffix="After" value="2">
+ <tp:enumvalue suffix="Completed" value="2">
<tp:docstring>The search has been completed</tp:docstring>
</tp:enumvalue>
+ <tp:enumvalue suffix="Failed" value="3">
+ <tp:docstring>The search has failed</tp:docstring>
+ </tp:enumvalue>
</tp:enum>
- <method name="GetSearchState" tp:name-for-bindings="Get_Search_State">
- <arg direction="out" type="u" tp:type="Channel_Contact_Search_State">
- <tp:docstring>The search state represented as one of the values of
- ChannelContactSearchState</tp:docstring>
+
+ <property name="SearchState" tp:name-for-bindings="Search_State"
+ access="read" type="u" tp:type="Channel_Contact_Search_State">
+ <tp:docstring>
+ The current state of this search channel object. Change notification
+ is via <tp:member-ref>SearchStateChanged</tp:member-ref>.
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </property>
+
+ <signal name="SearchStateChanged"
+ tp:name-for-bindings="Search_State_Changed">
+ <arg name="State" type="u" tp:type="Channel_Contact_Search_State">
+ <tp:docstring>The new search state</tp:docstring>
+ </arg>
+ <arg name="Error" type="s" tp:type="DBus_Error_Name">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ If the new state is <code>Failed</code>, the name of a D-Bus error
+ describing what went wrong. Otherwise, the empty string.
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </arg>
+ <arg name="Details" type="a{sv}" tp:type="String_Variant_Map">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>Additional information about the state transition, which may
+ include the following well-known keys:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>debug-message (s)</dt>
+ <dd>Debugging information on the change, corresponding to the
+ message part of a D-Bus error message, which SHOULD NOT be
+ displayed to users under normal circumstances</dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>This argument allows for future extensions. For instance,
+ if moving to state <code>Failed</code> because the server
+ rejected one of our search terms, we could define a key
+ that indicates which terms were invalid.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </tp:docstring>
</arg>
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>Emitted when the <tp:member-ref>SearchState</tp:member-ref> property
+ changes. The implementation MUST NOT make transitions other than the
+ following:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><code>Not_Started</code> → <code>In_Progress</code></li>
+ <li><code>In_Progress</code> → <code>Completed</code></li>
+ <li><code>In_Progress</code> → <code>Failed</code></li>
+ </ul>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </signal>
+
+ <tp:simple-type name="Contact_Search_Key" type="s">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>Any of the following search keys, with the indicated result for
+ the search:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>The empty string</dt>
+ <dd>Search for the search term in some implementation-dependent
+ set of fields, using an implementation-dependent algorithm
+ (e.g. searching for each word mentioned)
+ <tp:rationale>
+ The "one big search box" approach to searching, as is familiar
+ from Google. The Sametime plugin to Pidgin appears to search in
+ this way.
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>A <tp:type>VCard_Field</tp:type></dt>
+ <dd>Search for the search term in fields matching that name (for
+ instance, <code>nickname</code> would search nicknames, and
+ <code>tel</code> would search any available phone number,
+ regardless of its work/home/mobile/... status).</dd>
+
+ <dt>A <tp:type>VCard_Field</tp:type> followed by
+ "<code>;</code>" and a
+ <tp:type>VCard_Type_Parameter</tp:type> of the form
+ "<code>type=...</code>"</dt>
+ <dd>Search for the search term in fields of that name and type
+ only (for instance, <code>tel;type=mobile</code>).</dd>
+
+ <dt><code>x-telepathy-identifier</code></dt>
+ <dd>Search for contacts whose identifier in the IM protocol
+ matches the search term (e.g. contains it as a substring)
+ <tp:rationale>
+ Otherwise, starting a search by identifier would require the UI
+ to know the vCard field name corresponding to identifiers in
+ this protocol, which might be non-standard (like
+ <code>x-jabber</code>) or not exist at all.
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><code>x-gender</code></dt>
+ <dd>For the search term "male" or "female", search only for contacts
+ listed as male or female, respectively. The results for other
+ search terms are undefined; it is likely that contacts with
+ unspecified gender will only be matched if this search key
+ is omitted from the request.
+ <tp:rationale>
+ Examples in XEP-0055 suggest this usage, and at least Gadu-Gadu
+ also supports limiting search results by gender.
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><code>x-n-family</code></dt>
+ <dd>Search for the search term in contacts' family names
+ (the first component of the vCard field <code>n</code>).
+ <tp:rationale>
+ Gadu-Gadu and TOC seem to support this mode of searching.
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><code>x-n-given</code></dt>
+ <dd>Search for the search term in contacts' given names
+ (the second component of the vCard field <code>n</code>).
+ <tp:rationale>
+ As for <code>x-n-family</code>.
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><code>x-online</code></dt>
+ <dd>For the search term "yes", search only for contacts who are
+ currently online. The results for other search terms are undefined.
+ <tp:rationale>Gadu-Gadu appears to support this.</tp:rationale>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><code>x-adr-locality</code></dt>
+ <dd>Search for the search term as a locality or city (the fourth
+ component of the vCard field <code>adr</code>).
+ <tp:rationale>
+ Gadu-Gadu and TOC appear to support this.
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><code>x-search-offset</code></dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>For protocols that support paging results, the offset from the
+ start of the results that should be returned, i.e. the number of
+ contacts from the beginning that should be omitted.</p>
+
+ <p>For example, if the search terms match 50 contacts, this key
+ is set to <code>"20"</code> and <code>x-search-limit</code>
+ is set to <code>"10"</code>, then the ten contacts from the 21st
+ to the 30th should be returned.</p>
+
+ <p>Connection managers for protocols which do not natively support
+ restricting the number of results returned MUST NOT support
+ either this term or <code>x-search-limit</code>: all results
+ should be signalled, and the client can provide its own paging as
+ desired.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><code>x-search-limit</code></dt>
+ <dd>For protocols that support limiting results, the maximum number
+ of results that should be returned. For example, if the search
+ terms match <i>Antonius</i>, <i>Bridget</i> and <i>Charles</i> and
+ this key is set to <code>"2"</code>, the search service SHOULD only
+ return <i>Antonius</i> and <i>Bridget</i>.</dd>
+ </dl>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </tp:simple-type>
+
+ <property name="AvailableSearchKeys" type="as" access="read"
+ tp:name-for-bindings="Available_Search_Keys">
<tp:docstring>
- Returns the current state of this search channel object.
+ The set of search keys supported by this channel. Example values
+ include [""] (for protocols where several address fields are
+ implicitly searched) or ["x-n-given", "x-n-family", "nickname",
+ "email"] (for XMPP XEP-0055, without extensibility via Data Forms).
+ This property cannot change during the lifetime of a channel.
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ It can be in the <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.Requests">NewChannels</tp:dbus-ref>
+ signal for round-trip reduction.
+ </tp:rationale>
</tp:docstring>
- </method>
- <method name="Search">
- <arg direction="in" name="Terms" type="a{sv}" tp:type="String_Variant_Map">
+ </property>
+
+ <tp:mapping name="Contact_Search_Map">
+ <tp:docstring>A map from search keys to search terms.</tp:docstring>
+ <tp:member name="Key" type="s" tp:type="Contact_Search_Key">
+ <tp:docstring>
+ The search key to match against
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </tp:member>
+
+ <tp:member name="Term" type="s">
+ <tp:docstring>
+ The term or terms to be searched for in the search key; depending on
+ the protocol and the server implementation, this may be matched by
+ exact or approximate equality, substring matching, word matching
+ or any other matching algorithm
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </tp:member>
+ </tp:mapping>
+
+ <method name="Search" tp:name-for-bindings="Search">
+ <arg direction="in" name="Terms"
+ type="a{ss}" tp:type="Contact_Search_Map">
<tp:docstring>
A dictionary mapping search key names to the desired values
</tp:docstring>
</arg>
<tp:docstring>
- Send a request to start a search for contacts on this connection. A
- valid search request will cause the SearchStateChanged signal to be
- emitted with the status CHANNEL_CONTACT_SEARCH_STATE_DURING.
+ Send a request to start a search for contacts on this connection. This
+ may only be called while the <tp:member-ref>SearchState</tp:member-ref>
+ is Not_Started; a valid search request will cause the
+ <tp:member-ref>SearchStateChanged</tp:member-ref> signal to be emitted
+ with the state In_Progress.
</tp:docstring>
<tp:possible-errors>
- <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.Disconnected"/>
+ <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.NotAvailable">
+ <tp:docstring>
+ The <tp:member-ref>SearchState</tp:member-ref> is no longer
+ Not_Started, so this method is no longer available.
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </tp:error>
+ <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.InvalidArgument">
+ <tp:docstring>
+ The search terms included something this connection manager cannot
+ search for.
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </tp:error>
<tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.NetworkError"/>
- <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.InvalidArgument"/>
</tp:possible-errors>
</method>
+
+ <method name="Stop" tp:name-for-bindings="Stop">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>Stop the current search. This may not be called while the
+ <tp:member-ref>SearchState</tp:member-ref> is Not_Started. If called
+ while the SearchState is In_Progress,
+ <tp:member-ref>SearchStateChanged</tp:member-ref> will be emitted,
+ with the state Failed and the error
+ <code>org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Errors.Cancelled</code>.</p>
+
+ <p>Calling this method on a search in state Completed or Failed
+ succeeds, but has no effect.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>Specifying Stop to succeed when the search has finished means that
+ clients who call Stop just before receiving
+ <tp:member-ref>SearchStateChanged</tp:member-ref> don't have to
+ handle a useless error.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+
+ <p>Depending on the protocol, the connection manager may not be
+ able to prevent the server from sending further results after this
+ method returns; if this is the case, it MUST ignore any further
+ results.</p>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ <tp:possible-errors>
+ <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.NotAvailable">
+ <tp:docstring>
+ The <tp:member-ref>SearchState</tp:member-ref> is Not_Started, so
+ this method is not yet available.
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </tp:error>
+ </tp:possible-errors>
+ </method>
+
<signal name="SearchResultReceived"
tp:name-for-bindings="Search_Result_Received">
<arg name="Contact" type="u" tp:type="Contact_Handle">
- <tp:docstring>An integer handle for the contact</tp:docstring>
+ <tp:docstring>An integer handle for the contact, which will remain
+ valid at least until this Channel closes</tp:docstring>
</arg>
- <arg name="Values" type="a{sv}" tp:type="String_Variant_Map">
- <tp:docstring>A dictionary mapping search key names to values for this contact</tp:docstring>
+ <arg name="Info" type="a(sasas)" tp:type="Contact_Info_Field[]">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>An array of fields representing information about this
+ contact, in the same format used in the <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface">ContactInfo.DRAFT</tp:dbus-ref>
+ interface. It is possible that a separate call to <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.ContactInfo.DRAFT">RequestContactInfo</tp:dbus-ref>
+ would return more information than this signal provides.</p>
+
+ <p>This array SHOULD include the <code>x-telepathy-identifier</code>
+ field, whose values matches the result of calling <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection">InspectHandles</tp:dbus-ref>
+ on the Contact handle.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>UIs will most likely want to show the identifier to the user;
+ while they could do this by inspecting the signalled handle,
+ including it in this signal is cheap and removes a roundtrip to
+ look it up.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </tp:docstring>
</arg>
<tp:docstring>
Emitted when a search result is received from the server.
</tp:docstring>
</signal>
- <signal name="SearchStateChanged"
- tp:name-for-bindings="Search_State_Changed">
- <arg name="State" type="u" tp:type="Channel_Contact_Search_State">
- <tp:docstring>An integer representing the new search state</tp:docstring>
- </arg>
+
+ <property name="Server" tp:name-for-bindings="Server"
+ type="s" access="read">
<tp:docstring>
- Emitted when the search state (as returned by the GetSearchState
- method) changes.
+ <p>For protocols which support searching for contacts on multiple
+ servers with different DNS names (like XMPP), the DNS name of the
+ server being searched by this channel, e.g.
+ "characters.shakespeare.lit". Otherwise, the empty string.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>XEP 0055 defines a mechanism for XMPP clients to search services
+ of their choice for contacts, such as users.jabber.org (the "Jabber
+ User Directory").</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+
+ <p>This property cannot change during the lifetime of the channel.
+ This property SHOULD be in the Allowed_Properties of a
+ <tp:type>Requestable_Channel_Class</tp:type> if and only if the
+ protocol supports querying multiple different servers;
+ implementations SHOULD use a sensible default if possible if this
+ property is not specified in a channel request.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>This allows a client to perform searches on a protocol it knows
+ nothing about without requiring the user to guess a valid server's
+ hostname.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
</tp:docstring>
- </signal>
- <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- <p>A channel type for searching server-stored user directories. A new channel
- should be requested by a client for each search attempt, and it should be
- closed when the search is completed or the required result has been found
- in order to free unused handles. The search can be cancelled at any time
- by calling the channel Close method, although depending upon the protocol
- the connection manager may not be able to prevent the server from sending
- further results.</p>
-
- <p>Before searching, the GetSearchKeys method should be used to discover any
- instructions sent by the server, and the valid search keys which can be
- provided to the Search method. A search request is then started by
- providing some of these terms to the Search method, and the search status
- will be set to CHANNEL_CONTACT_SEARCH_STATE_DURING. When results are
- returned by the server, the SearchResultReceived signal is emitted for each
- contact found, and when the search is complete, the search status will be
- set to CHANNEL_SEARCH_STATE_AFTER.</p>
- </tp:docstring>
+ </property>
+
</interface>
</node>
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