JOLIE and Plasma: status and discussion

[Fabrizio Montesi]

On Monday 24 November 2008 20:24:59 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008, Fabrizio Montesi wrote:
> > We would need to support the loading of Jolie scripts anyway (for more
> > complex cases or coding distributed behaviour as backend to a plasmoid),
> > so while this option (the XML one) could be nice I'm wondering if we
> > would end up with too many ways to do the same thing, and I don't like
> > this feeling. ;)
>
> yes, Jolie scripts don't look all that difficult to do and we should be
> able to provide a number of stock scripts that cover the common cases,
> preventing developers from having to dip into Jolie scripting unless they
> are interfacing with something that has quirks.
>
> so let's just KISS

Let's recap a bit about ::access.

For quirk-free things, one liner:
Service::access(Service::Location& location, Service::Protocol protocol = 
Service::Protocol::Native)

Where Service::Protocol::Native is what you need for accessing a 
Plasma::Service published on another machine.

For adapters:
Service::access(QString& jolieScript) // perhaps to find a better way than a 
QString?
An adapter could require some initialization data (like the URI of the service 
to bridge to), meaning an initial call to its "initialize" operation just 
after access-ing it. Easy, but it's not a one liner.