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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2010-04-15 21:53:21 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2010-04-15 21:53:21 +0100
commit4209eecdb536dc92f831020ad3504537103f7a7f (patch)
treee8e642978ef211aa24f9006c528ae11ba19aa1da /spec
parent71ab3716916bbe717c91faa39b2a18a3752fd6a2 (diff)
downloadtelepathy-glib-4209eecdb536dc92f831020ad3504537103f7a7f.tar.gz
Update to spec 0.19.4 (Observer.Recover)
Diffstat (limited to 'spec')
-rw-r--r--spec/Channel_Interface_Conference.xml2
-rw-r--r--spec/Channel_Type_Contact_Search.xml4
-rw-r--r--spec/Client_Observer.xml58
-rw-r--r--spec/Connection_Interface_Contact_Info.xml152
-rw-r--r--spec/Connection_Interface_Mail_Notification.xml23
-rw-r--r--spec/all.xml2
6 files changed, 198 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/spec/Channel_Interface_Conference.xml b/spec/Channel_Interface_Conference.xml
index 2441a7d9e..92d962d69 100644
--- a/spec/Channel_Interface_Conference.xml
+++ b/spec/Channel_Interface_Conference.xml
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
invited into the new channel, as if they had been added with
<tp:dbus-ref namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Interface"
>Group.AddMembers</tp:dbus-ref>(InitialInviteeHandles,
- <tp:member-ref>InvitationMessage</tp:member-ref> immediately after
+ <tp:member-ref>InvitationMessage</tp:member-ref>) immediately after
the channel was created.</p>
<tp:rationale>
diff --git a/spec/Channel_Type_Contact_Search.xml b/spec/Channel_Type_Contact_Search.xml
index 5f5bd4bf1..195d97be7 100644
--- a/spec/Channel_Type_Contact_Search.xml
+++ b/spec/Channel_Type_Contact_Search.xml
@@ -388,9 +388,9 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
<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>
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface">ContactInfo</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>
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.ContactInfo">RequestContactInfo</tp:dbus-ref>
would return more information than this signal provides.</p>
<p>This array SHOULD include the <code>x-telepathy-identifier</code>
diff --git a/spec/Client_Observer.xml b/spec/Client_Observer.xml
index 35e6d91d5..a2256a753 100644
--- a/spec/Client_Observer.xml
+++ b/spec/Client_Observer.xml
@@ -180,6 +180,43 @@ org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Requested b=true
</tp:docstring>
</property>
+ <property name="Recover" tp:name-for-bindings="Recover" type="b"
+ access="read">
+ <tp:added version="0.19.4">
+ When using telepathy-mission-control, version 5.4.0 or later is
+ needed for this property to be useful.
+ </tp:added>
+
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>If true, upon the startup of this observer, <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Observer">ObserveChannels</tp:dbus-ref>
+ will be called for every already existing channel matching
+ its <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Observer">ObserverChannelFilter</tp:dbus-ref></p>
+
+ <p>When activatable client having this property disappears from the bus
+ and there are channels matching its ObserverChannelFilter,
+ ObserveChannels will be called immediately to reactivate it again.</p>
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>This means that if an activatable Observer crashes, it will
+ be restarted as soon as possible; while there is an unavoidable
+ possibility that it will miss some events during this process
+ (particularly <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type">Text</tp:dbus-ref>
+ messages), this window of event loss is kept to a minimum.</p>
+
+ <p>Non-activatable observers can't take advantage of this
+ mechanism, but setting this property on a non-activatable
+ observer does allow it to "catch up" on channels that are
+ currently active at the time that it starts up.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+
+ <p>When the ObserveChannels method is called due to observer recovery,
+ the "Observer_Info" dictionary will contain one extra item with key
+ "recovering" and boolean value of True.</p>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </property>
+
<method name="ObserveChannels" tp:name-for-bindings="Observe_Channels">
<tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>Called by the channel dispatcher when channels in which the
@@ -294,10 +331,23 @@ org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Requested b=true
<arg name="Observer_Info" type="a{sv}" direction="in">
<tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- <p>Additional information about these channels. No keys are
- currently defined.</p>
-
- <p>If keys are defined for this dictionary, all will be optional;
+ <p>Additional information about these channels. Currently defined
+ keys are:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt><code>recovering</code> - b</dt>
+ <dd>True if ObserveChannels was called on existing channel due to
+ observer recovery, otherwise False.
+ <tp:rationale>
+ This allows observers to distinguish between new channels (the normal
+ case), and existing channels that were given to the observer in order
+ to catch up on previous events (perhaps after a previous instance of
+ the same observer crashed).
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <p>All defined keys for this dictionary are optional;
observers MAY safely ignore any entry in this dictionary.</p>
</tp:docstring>
</arg>
diff --git a/spec/Connection_Interface_Contact_Info.xml b/spec/Connection_Interface_Contact_Info.xml
index d08545466..b77293514 100644
--- a/spec/Connection_Interface_Contact_Info.xml
+++ b/spec/Connection_Interface_Contact_Info.xml
@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ 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.Connection.Interface.ContactInfo.DRAFT"
- tp:causes-havoc="experimental">
- <tp:added version="0.17.18">(as a draft)</tp:added>
+ <interface name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.ContactInfo">
+ <tp:added version="0.19.4">(as stable API)</tp:added>
<tp:requires interface="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection"/>
<tp:struct name="Contact_Info_Field" array-name="Contact_Info_Field_List">
@@ -110,6 +109,11 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
city), region (e.g., state or province), the postal code, and the
country name.</dd>
+ <dt>label</dt>
+ <dd>A free-form street address for the contact, formatted as a
+ single value (with embedded newlines where necessary) suitable for
+ printing on an address label</dd>
+
<dt>tel</dt>
<dd>A telephone number for the contact.</dd>
@@ -124,9 +128,10 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
VERSION:3.0
FN:Wee Ninja
N;LANGUAGE=ja:Ninja;Wee;;;-san
- ORG:Collabora, Ltd.;Human Resources\; Company Policy Enforcement
+ ORG:Collabora, Ltd.;Management Division;Human Resources\; Company Policy Enforcement
ADR;TYPE=WORK,POSTAL,PARCEL:;;11 Kings Parade;Cambridge;Cambridgeshire
;CB2 1SJ;UK
+ LABEL;TYPE=WORK,POSTAL,PARCEL:11 Kings Parade\nCambridge\nCambridgeshire\nUK\nCB2 1SJ
TEL;TYPE=VOICE,WORK:+44 1223 362967, +44 7700 900753
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET,PREF:wee.ninja@collabora.co.uk
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:wee.ninja@example.com
@@ -140,9 +145,16 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
[
('fn', [], ['Wee Ninja']),
('n', ['language=ja'], ['Ninja', 'Wee', '', '', '-san']),
- ('org', [], ['Collabora, Ltd.', 'Human Resources; Company Policy Enforcement']),
+ ('org', [], ['Collabora, Ltd.', 'Management Division',
+ 'Human Resources; Company Policy Enforcement']),
('adr', ['type=work','type=postal','type=parcel'],
['','','11 Kings Parade','Cambridge', 'Cambridgeshire','CB2 1SJ','UK']),
+ ('label', ['type=work','type=postal','type=parcel'],
+ ['''11 Kings Parade
+ Cambridge
+ Cambridgeshire
+ UK
+ CB2 1SJ''']),
('tel', ['type=voice','type=work'], ['+44 1223 362967']),
('tel', ['type=voice','type=work'], ['+44 7700 900753']),
('email', ['type=internet','type=pref'], ['wee.ninja@collabora.co.uk']),
@@ -162,7 +174,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
name="Contact_Info"/>
</tp:mapping>
- <signal name="ContactInfoChanged" tp:name-for-bindings="ContactInfoChanged">
+ <signal name="ContactInfoChanged" tp:name-for-bindings="Contact_Info_Changed">
<arg name="Contact" type="u" tp:type="Contact_Handle">
<tp:docstring>
An integer handle for the contact whose info has changed.
@@ -197,10 +209,33 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
<tp:docstring>
Request information on several contacts at once. This SHOULD only
return cached information, omitting handles for which no information is
- cached from the returned map. For contacts without cached information,
- the information SHOULD be requested from the network, with the result
- signalled later by <tp:member-ref>ContactInfoChanged</tp:member-ref>.
+ cached from the returned map.
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </method>
+
+ <method name="RefreshContactInfo"
+ tp:name-for-bindings="Refresh_Contact_Info">
+ <arg direction="in" name="Contacts" type="au" tp:type="Contact_Handle[]">
+ <tp:docstring>
+ Integer handles for contacts.
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </arg>
+ <tp:docstring>
+ Retrieve information for the given contact, requesting it from the
+ network if an up-to-date version is not cached locally. This method
+ SHOULD return immediately, emitting
+ <tp:member-ref>ContactInfoChanged</tp:member-ref> when the contacts'
+ updated contact information is returned.
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ This method allows a client with cached contact information to
+ update its cache after a number of days.
+ </tp:rationale>
</tp:docstring>
+ <tp:possible-errors>
+ <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.Disconnected"/>
+ <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.InvalidHandle"/>
+ </tp:possible-errors>
</method>
<method name="RequestContactInfo"
@@ -219,8 +254,17 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
<tp:docstring>
Retrieve information for a contact, requesting it from the network if
it is not cached locally.
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ This method is appropriate for an explicit user request to show
+ a contact's information; it allows a UI to wait for the contact
+ info to be returned.
+ </tp:rationale>
</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.InvalidHandle"/>
<tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.NotAvailable">
<tp:docstring>
The contact's information could not be retrieved.
@@ -262,7 +306,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
</tp:possible-errors>
</method>
- <tp:enum name="Contact_Info_Flag" value-prefix="Contact_Info_Flag"
+ <tp:enum name="Contact_Info_Flags" value-prefix="Contact_Info_Flag"
type="u">
<tp:docstring>
Flags defining the behaviour of contact information on this protocol.
@@ -282,8 +326,6 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
<tp:docstring>
Indicates that the protocol pushes all contacts' information to the
connection manager without prompting. If set,
- <tp:member-ref>RequestContactInfo</tp:member-ref> will not cause a
- network roundtrip and
<tp:member-ref>ContactInfoChanged</tp:member-ref> will be emitted
whenever contacts' information changes.
</tp:docstring>
@@ -309,10 +351,22 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
</tp:simple-type>
<property name="ContactInfoFlags" type="u" access="read"
- tp:type="Contact_Info_Flag" tp:name-for-bindings="Contact_Info_Flags">
- <tp:docstring>
- An integer representing the bitwise-OR of flags on this connection.
- This property should be constant over the lifetime of a connection.
+ tp:type="Contact_Info_Flags" tp:name-for-bindings="Contact_Info_Flags">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>An integer representing the bitwise-OR of flags on this
+ connection.</p>
+
+ <p>This property MAY change, without change notification, at any time
+ before the connection moves to status Connection_Status_Connected.
+ It MUST NOT change after that point.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>Some XMPP servers, like Facebook Chat, do not allow the vCard to
+ be changed (and so would not have the Can_Set flag). Whether the
+ user's server is one of these cannot necessarily be detected until
+ quite late in the connection process.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+
</tp:docstring>
</property>
@@ -328,8 +382,8 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
<tp:member type="as" name="Parameters" tp:type="VCard_Type_Parameter[]">
<tp:docstring>The set of vCard type parameters which may be set on this
field. If this list is empty and the
- Contact_Info_Field_Flag_Parameters_Mandatory
- flag is unset, any vCard type parameters may be used.</tp:docstring>
+ Contact_Info_Field_Flag_Parameters_Exact flag is not set, any vCard type
+ parameters may be used.</tp:docstring>
</tp:member>
<tp:member type="u" name="Flags" tp:type="Contact_Info_Field_Flags">
@@ -352,10 +406,10 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
list indicates that arbitrary vCard fields are permitted. This
property SHOULD be the empty list, and be ignored by clients, if
<tp:member-ref>ContactInfoFlags</tp:member-ref> does not contain the
- Can_Set <tp:type>Contact_Info_Flag</tp:type>.</p>
+ Can_Set flag.</p>
- <p>For example, an implementation of XEP-0054, which defines a mapping
- of vCards to XML for use over XMPP, would set this property to the
+ <p>For example, a protocol in which arbitrary vCards were stored
+ as-is would set this property to the
empty list. A protocol whose notion of contact information is one
each of personal phone number, mobile phone number, location, email
address and date of birth, with no attributes allowed on each piece
@@ -364,22 +418,35 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
<pre>
[
- ('tel', ['home'], Parameters_Mandatory, 1),
- ('tel', ['cell'], Parameters_Mandatory, 1),
- ('adr', [], Parameters_Mandatory, 1),
- ('bday', [], Parameters_Mandatory, 1),
- ('email', ['internet'], Parameters_Mandatory, 1),
+ ('tel', ['type=home'], Parameters_Exact, 1),
+ ('tel', ['type=cell'], Parameters_Exact, 1),
+ ('adr', [], Parameters_Exact, 1),
+ ('bday', [], Parameters_Exact, 1),
+ ('email', ['type=internet'], Parameters_Exact, 1),
]</pre>
<p>A protocol which allows users to specify up to four phone numbers,
which may be labelled as personal and/or mobile, would set this
- property to <code>[ ('tel', ['home', 'cell'], 0, 4), ]</code>.</p>
+ property to
+ <code>[ ('tel', ['type=home', 'type=cell'], 0, 4), ]</code>.</p>
<tp:rationale>
<p>Studying existing IM protocols shows that in practice protocols
allow either a very restricted set of fields (such as MSN, which
- seems to correspond roughly to the largest example above) or
- something mapping 1-1 to vCard (such as XMPP).</p>
+ seems to correspond roughly to the largest example above), or
+ something mapping 1:1 to a large subset of vCard (such as XMPP's
+ XEP-0054).</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+
+ <p>This property MAY change, without change notification, at any time
+ before the connection moves to status Connection_Status_Connected.
+ It MUST NOT change after that point.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>Some XMPP servers, like Google Talk, only allow a small subset of
+ the "vcard-temp" protocol. Whether the user's server is one of
+ these cannot be detected until quite late in the connection
+ process.</p>
</tp:rationale>
</tp:docstring>
</property>
@@ -389,7 +456,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
<tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
Flags describing the behaviour of a vCard field.
</tp:docstring>
- <tp:flag suffix="Parameters_Mandatory" value="1">
+ <tp:flag suffix="Parameters_Exact" value="1">
<tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>If present, exactly the parameters indicated must be set on this
field; in the case of an empty list of parameters, this implies that
@@ -411,6 +478,31 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
<tp:type>Contact_Info_Field</tp:type>s forming a
structured representation of a vCard (as defined by RFC 2426), using
field names and semantics defined therein.</p>
+
+ <p>On some protocols, information about your contacts is pushed to you,
+ with change notification; on others, like XMPP, the client must
+ explicitly request the avatar, and has no way to tell whether it has
+ changed without retrieving it in its entirety. This distinction is
+ exposed by <tp:member-ref>ContactInfoFlags</tp:member-ref> containing
+ the Push flag.</p>
+
+ <p>On protocols with the Push flag set, UIs can connect to
+ <tp:member-ref>ContactInfoChanged</tp:member-ref>, call
+ <tp:member-ref>GetContactInfo</tp:member-ref> once at login for the set
+ of contacts they are interested in, and then be sure they will receive
+ the latest contact info. On protocols like XMPP, clients can do the
+ same, but will receive (at most) opportunistic updates if the info is
+ retrieved for other reasons. Clients may call
+ <tp:member-ref>RequestContactInfo</tp:member-ref> or
+ <tp:member-ref>RefreshContactInfo</tp:member-ref> to force a contact's
+ info to be updated, but MUST NOT do so unless this is either in
+ response to direct user action, or to refresh their own cache after a
+ number of days.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>We don't want clients to accidentally cause a ridiculous amount of
+ network traffic.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
</tp:docstring>
</interface>
</node>
diff --git a/spec/Connection_Interface_Mail_Notification.xml b/spec/Connection_Interface_Mail_Notification.xml
index 35678c2f9..c74dd59f8 100644
--- a/spec/Connection_Interface_Mail_Notification.xml
+++ b/spec/Connection_Interface_Mail_Notification.xml
@@ -353,17 +353,30 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
<p>If <tt>Thread_Based</tt> appears in the
<tp:member-ref>MailNotificationFlags</tp:member-ref>, this property
counts the number of threads, not the number of mails.</p>
+
+ <p>Note that this count MAY be bigger than the number of items in
+ <tp:member-ref>UnreadMails</tp:member-ref>. See
+ <tp:member-ref>UnreadMails</tp:member-ref> for more details.</p>
</tp:docstring>
</property>
<property name="UnreadMails" type="aa{sv}" tp:type="Mail[]"
tp:name-for-bindings="Unread_Mails" access="read">
<tp:docstring>
- A array of unread <tp:type>Mail</tp:type>s. Change notification is via
- <tp:member-ref>UnreadMailsChanged</tp:member-ref>. This property is
- only useful if <tt>Supports_Unread_Mails</tt> is set in
- <tp:member-ref>MailNotificationFlags</tp:member-ref>; otherwise, it MUST be
- an empty list.
+ <p>An array of unread <tp:type>Mail</tp:type>s. Change notification is
+ via <tp:member-ref>UnreadMailsChanged</tp:member-ref>. This property
+ is only useful if <tt>Supports_Unread_Mails</tt> is set in
+ <tp:member-ref>MailNotificationFlags</tp:member-ref>; otherwise, it
+ MUST be an empty list.</p>
+ <p>The array size MAY be shorter than
+ <tp:member-ref>UnreadMailCount</tp:member-ref>.</p>
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>Some servers may limits the amount of detailed e-mails sent. This
+ can significantly reduce the network traffic for large inbox. For
+ this reason, it is normal that
+ <tp:member-ref>UnreadMailCount</tp:member-ref> be bigger or equal
+ to the size of this array.</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
</tp:docstring>
</property>
diff --git a/spec/all.xml b/spec/all.xml
index 0ec47089a..9ae5b3db7 100644
--- a/spec/all.xml
+++ b/spec/all.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<tp:title>Telepathy D-Bus Interface Specification</tp:title>
-<tp:version>0.19.3</tp:version>
+<tp:version>0.19.4</tp:version>
<tp:copyright>Copyright © 2005-2010 Collabora Limited</tp:copyright>
<tp:copyright>Copyright © 2005-2010 Nokia Corporation</tp:copyright>