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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<node name="/Channel_Interface_File_Transfer_Metadata"
  xmlns:tp="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/DbusSpec#extensions-v0">
  <tp:copyright>Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora Ltd.</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
      License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
      version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>

    <p>This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
      Lesser General Public License for more details.</p>

    <p>You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
      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.Interface.FileTransfer.Metadata">
    <tp:requires interface="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.FileTransfer"/>
    <tp:added version="0.25.0"/>

    <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
      <p>This interface exists to provide a mechanism to include
        arbitrary additional information in file transfers. For
        example, one might want to send a document and include the
        number of times the character P appeared in the file, so would
        add <tt>NumberOfPs=42</tt> to the
        <tp:member-ref>Metadata</tp:member-ref> property.</p>

      <p><tp:member-ref>ServiceName</tp:member-ref> living in its own
        property makes it easier for specific applications to send
        files to each other, bypassing the standard handler. For
        example, the Banshee Telepathy plugin handler could match on
        <tp:member-ref>ServiceName</tp:member-ref> so the Empathy file
        transfer is not used instead.</p>
   </tp:docstring>

    <property name="ServiceName" tp:name-for-bindings="Service_Name"
      type="s" access="readwrite" tp:immutable="sì"
      tp:requestable="naturalmente">
      <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <p>A string representing the service name that will be used
          over the file transfer channel. This property is equivalent
          to the <tp:dbus-ref
            namespace="ofdT">Channel.Type.DBusTube.ServiceName</tp:dbus-ref>
          and <tp:dbus-ref
            namespace="ofdT">Channel.Type.StreamTube.Service</tp:dbus-ref>
          properties. If no service name is given then this property
          will be the empty string.</p>
      </tp:docstring>
    </property>

    <property name="Metadata" tp:name-for-bindings="Metadata"
      type="a{sas}" tp:type="Metadata" access="readwrite"
      tp:immutable="sì" tp:requestable="naturalmente">
      <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <p>Additional information about the file transfer set by the
          channel initiator. If no additional information is given then
          this property will be empty.</p>
      </tp:docstring>
    </property>

    <tp:mapping name="Metadata" type="a{sas}">
      <tp:docstring>
        A mapping from string key to a list of strings, used in the
        <tp:member-ref>Metadata</tp:member-ref> property. To emulate a
        simple string → string hash table one should have exactly one
        member in the value string list.

        <tp:rationale>
          This property is an a{sas} primarily because this maps
          easily to <a
          href="http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0004.html">XEP-0004
          Data Forms</a>, and allows more structured metadata than
          a{ss} would. (For instance, a list of RDF triples could be
          expressed as one long array of strings, or as three-element
          values for a series of dummy key names, rather than as one
          big string blob.)

          While it might be convenient for applications to allow keys
          of arbitrary types, the added convenience would be
          outweighed by having to define the XMPP representation
        </tp:rationale>
      </tp:docstring>

      <tp:member name="Key" type="s"/>
      <tp:member name="Values" type="as"/>
    </tp:mapping>

  </interface>
</node>
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