[Kde-hardware-devel] Solid UPnP GSoC idea

[Kevin Ottens]

On Wednesday 7 April 2010 15:01:51 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> A module wrapping access to the InternetGatewayDevice type would indeed be
> useful. E.g. currently KTorrent and Konversation both have their own custom
> stand-alone code (though derived from each other) to punch a hole into the
> gateway (for NAT traversal), and Kopete lacks even that.

Not sure what you have in mind here with "module". But the way I see it, the 
only thing required would be a Solid::NetworkGateway class (inheriting from 
DeviceInterface) which would provide two methods (one to open a port, one to 
close it). This way once you get a hold on a device which is IGD you could 
just:
Solid::Device d = ...;
d.as<Solid::NetworkGateway>()->openPort(...);
...
d.as<Solid::NetworkGateway>()->closePort(...);

Sounds fairly easy to use from any application out there.

 
> > - Network neighborhood plasma widget.
> 
> I would like that. And other like Kevin I also think it should be a
> different one to the one for the locally connected. I even would prefer it
> it would show the devices similarly to how the windows are shown in the
> tasks(/windows) applet, just with icon-only mode. Kind of what the
> network:/ kio-slave shows, just as convenient applet, with added value.

In fact, wouldn't it be a specialized view on network:/ results? Sounds very 
much like it to me.

> > The UPnP backend for Solid will test the architecture in preparation
> > for other local network protocols: DAAP, Bonjour, netbios, ...
> 
> For this it might also be interesting to see how
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/kioslave/network/network/
> could be enhanced as an alternative. The remote (and more service-oriented)
> nature of stuff on the network might not really fit into the scope of Solid
> perhaps.
> Unless we expect Solid to e.g. deliver all http servers on the network.
> Would we?

I'd say no. That'd definitely be opening the pandora box. :-)

I think we should limit ourselves to multimedia devices/network storage (just 
like we used to report media players... but now they're connected via 
ethernet/wifi and not simply USB) and to those very focused headless devices 
(network gateway, possibly home automation devices).

"http server" lacks some focus I'd say. We shouldn't simply report anything 
which has a port open to the outside. ;-)

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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