Bug 17430

Summary:	connections' object path etc. should contain uniquifying string
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Will Thompson <will>
Component:	idle	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	jonathon
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Will Thompson 2008-09-04 09:38:00 UTC

If I connect to Freenode as "wjt", then rename myself to "resiak", the object path of the connection will still contain "wjt@irc.freenode.net".  If I then try to make another connection as "wjt", it will spuriously fail because of an object path clash, even though it should succeed.

Thus we should include some kind of uniquifying string in the account name component of the object path – perhaps just the hex value of the IdleConnection *.

Comment 1 Jonathon Jongsma 2009-02-20 12:24:48 UTC

hm, actually there is another (similar) use case.  When using bip as an IRC proxy, you often set up bip to connect to multiple IRC networks.  Then when you connect from your irc client to bip, you use the same server and (likely) the same nick, but provide a different password for each network (bip's passwords are of the form: 'bipuser:bippassword:networkname').

So for example, I'm connected to both freenode and gimpnet, so I set up separate accounts in empathy for both of these.  The settings are identical except for the password field.  But telepathy-idle doesn't allow me to do this, and gives me an error that the name is already in use.

I hope to have a fix soon.

Comment 2 Will Thompson 2009-02-20 13:02:29 UTC

I already have a patch for this: http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/wjt/telepathy-idle-wjt.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/trivia

Comment 3 Jonathon Jongsma 2009-02-20 14:23:53 UTC

pushed.

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