File Transfers in Preview Release

[Olli Salli]

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On 05.04.2011 10:23, Olli Salli wrote:
> On 05.04.2011 03:25, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote:
>> On 04/05/2011 02:09 AM, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote:
>>> The idea was to replace it with a HandleFileTransferJob that implements
>>> a Tp handler both for incoming and outgoing file transers (see the
>>> implementation of HandleP2PDBusTubeJob vs. Accept/OfferDBusTubeJob).
> 
> 
>> It should have been HandleFileTransferJob that implements a Tp handler
>> both for incoming and outgoing file transfers and a
>> RequestFileTransferJob to initiate a file transfer (see
>> Handle/RequestP2PDBusTubeJob vs. Accept/OfferDBusTubeJob).
> 
> 
> Btw, implementing things like RequestFileTransferJob is much easier now
> that we have the Request & Handle API in tp-qt4. The request & handle
> variants of the Account channel request methods, such as
> createAndHandleFileTransfer(), handle the complexity of dealing with the
> channel dispatcher, being a suitable Handler etc internally. You just
> fire the channel request, and when it comes back successfully, you have
> a channel which you're guaranteed to (secretly) be the handler of i.e.
> nobody else is handling it. This essentially matches the apparent
> convenience of the naive approach of requesting channels directly from
> the Connection bypassing the CD.
> 
> Br,
> Olli

Well, now that I think of it (based on the other mail) you might indeed
want to perform both receiving and sending files in the same
background-ish Handler, but invoke that handler for sending files from
multiple applications (at least the contact list, but possibly some
contact context menu actions from multiple places where contacts are
shown too) . In that case, you should indeed still just have a "request
a file transfer, but forget it, and let its usual Handler do its thing"
job, which'd use the older request-but-not-handle API.

Br,
Olli
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