[Gossip-dev] final account rework

[Xavier Claessens]

Le mardi 03 octobre 2006 à 11:19 +0200, Xavier Claessens a écrit :
> Le dimanche 01 octobre 2006 à 21:59 +0200, Xavier Claessens a écrit :
> > Le dimanche 01 octobre 2006 à 18:46 +0200, Xavier Claessens a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm working on protocol specific UI for creating and editing accounts
> > > [1]. This work is made for HEAD and will be very useful for telepathy.
> > > 
> > > One of the goal of this is removing the deprecated
> > > gossip_account_[get,set]_*() API and use instead the new API
> > > gossip_account_param_set(). I'm surprised there is not many places where
> > > the deprecated API is used, most of it is in my new
> > > gossip-account-jabber.[ch] module, that's why I'm thinking about
> > > removing this API completely now.
> > > 
> > > For that I need one think: the protocol should create new accounts with
> > > default values for all parameters. Something like
> > > 	GossipAccount *gossip_protocol_create_account (GossipProtocol*);
> > > With telepathy it is already the protocol that creates new accounts and
> > > it already sets all parameters with default values (Eitan correct me if
> > > I miss understood the code). In telepathy we directly call
> > > 	gossip_telepathy_cmgr_new_account_from_protocol
> > > from protocol/telepathy/ which violate the libgossip abstraction.
> > > 
> > > Is that a good idea if I implement all that in my next big account
> > > rework ? Maybe it's better to make many little patches than one big ?
> > > 
> > > btw, new_account_window_get_account_info() has changed in last commit in
> > > the THELEPATHY branch and don't have the telepathy specific code
> > > anymore ! what happened ?
> > > 
> > > Xavier Claessens.
> > > 
> > > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358099
> > 
> > 
> > Here is a patch. Like that we can create a new account with all default
> > values for a particular protocol using:
> >   gossip_session_new_account (session, GOSSIP_ACCOUNT_TYPE_JABBER);
> > It still needs a little work to not use properties in g_object_new but
> > uses gossip_account_param_set_full() instead, like that we can set a
> > flag for each parameter, this flag can be used in the UI to sort
> > optional parameters that can be hidden in a "advanced"
> > tab/dialog/expander or whatever will be the nicer way.
> > 
> > Like always this is not very useful for HEAD but will be very cool for
> > telepathy. The patch is for HEAD since it doesn't depend directly on
> > telepathy.
> > 
> > What do you think about ?
> > 
> > Xavier.
> 
> Ok so the work is continuing. The goal of this patch [1] is to get rid
> of gossip_account_set_* API. The problem that is solved with this patch
> is if we don't uses gossip_account_set_password for example we don't
> know what's the type of the "password" parameter. So we need to create
> all parameters with gossip_account_param_new when creating a new
> GossipAccount object. Once the parameters created with the good type and
> flag we can easily change the value with gossip_account_param_set which
> has the same syntax than g_object_set.
> 
> I need some feedback to know if it's the right way to solve the problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Xavier.
> 
> [1] http://users.skynet.be/Zdra/gossip-account.patch

Here is a big patch [1] to hopefully finish the whole GossipAccount
rework. It includes and improve 2 patches attached on bugzilla [2]. It
does:

 - Remove the deprecated gossip_account_[get/set]_* API

 - No more GnomeDruid for creating a new account, we can create a new
account in accounts-dialog and change the settings. There is a
"Register" button to register the new account on the server. Maybe some
tooltips can help the user ?

 - Set a protocol-specific UI to modify account settings.

 - Add gossip_account_param_[get/set] which are far easier to use. It's
inspired from g_object_[set/get].

 - The port is now a guint and not a guint16 since we can't save a
guint16 in a g_value and it make a crash if we try to collect a guint
into a guint16.

 - Add gossip_session_new_account() to create a new account with default
values for all parameters depending on the protocol. Should it be
renamed to gossip_session_create_account() ?

I think it's ready for HEAD. There is still some work to integrate this
with TELEPATHY:

 - gossip-account-unknown.[ch] has still to be implemented based on the
initial UI that Eitan did in the TELEPATHY branch.

 - gossip_session_new_account() takes only the session and the
GossipAccountType as parameters. My idea was to call
gossip_telepathy_cmgr_new_account_from_protocol() to create the new
account when the telepathy protocol is used, but this functions takes as
parameters GossipCmgrInfo and the protocol's name. How can it be
adapted ? Eitan have you an idea for that ? I really think we should
avoid the actual solution which is directly call this function from the
UI, it breaks the libgossip abstraction layer.

Review and comments are welcome.

Xavier.

[1] http://users.skynet.be/Zdra/gossip-account.patch and add those 2
files in src/
http://users.skynet.be/Zdra/gossip-account-jabber.c
http://users.skynet.be/Zdra/gossip-account-jabber.h

[2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358099 and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359619
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