Bug 21377

Summary: doesn't support 64-bit CM params
Product: Telepathy Reporter: Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component: mission-controlAssignee: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Simon McVittie 2009-04-24 05:04:40 UTC 
Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> Simon McVittie wrote:
>> Please also check that MC supports all the types whose serialization is
>> specifically mentioned in telepathy-spec. See:
>>
>> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/org.freedesktop.Telepathy.ConnectionManager.html
>>
>> We define a serialization in .manager files for string, object path, boolean,
>> the six (int/uint)(16/32/64) types, double, and string array. I'd recommend
>> making MC use the same serializations for these when saving accounts.
>
> MC doesn't support 64 bit integers; I'd rather ignore it for now, as the 
> patch to support them is not trivial (GKeyFile doesn't support 64 bit 
> integers) and we don't have a CM with such params for now.

The correct way to support these would probably be to have telepathy-glib expose the utility code I wrote for 64-bit integer parsing.
Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2009-06-22 06:26:10 UTC 
Fixed in 5.1.1

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