[Gossip-dev] Re: [Telepathy] GossipProtocol problems

[Xavier Claessens]

Le dimanche 15 octobre 2006 à 12:27 +0200, Mikael Hallendal a écrit :
> >>> 4) _is_valid_username, _get_example_username, _get_default_server and
> >>> _get_default_port: doesn't seems to have an equivalent in telepathy...
> >>> maybe it should be added to the specification ?
> >> The default for anything that has a sensible default can be found in
> >> ConnectionManager.GetParameters(). Sample values are mentioned in your
> >> previous mail to the Telepathy list and the replies to it, but I'll repeat
> >> for the benefit of other Gossip people: we don't have that functionality,
> >> but perhaps we should.
> >>
> >> Validating parameters as best we can before actually attempting
> >> registration would perhaps be a nice thing to add too. (I assume you're
> >> looking for "live" validation as the user types in parameters?)
> > 
> > Yeah would be nice to add a method which gets in argument a dictionary
> > with all parameters/values and checks if values are correct, then return
> > a dictionary with incorrect parameters/default-value (or
> > corrected-value ?)
> 
> As for some of the validation, I don't see a huge problem of having it
> in Gossip. Gossip will know what backends it supports anyway and having
> implementing some of these (preferably not default server/port) would be
> okay to do within the Gossip code.

We can make it in gossip but I think it make more sense in telepathy.

Xavier.
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