Bug 38801 - Missing _async() wrappers for Connection.ContactList and Connection.ContactGroups interfaces
Summary: Missing _async() wrappers for Connection.ContactList and Connection.ContactGr...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Telepathy
Classification: Unclassified
Component: tp-glib (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Telepathy bugs list
QA Contact: Telepathy bugs list
URL: http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/xc...
Whiteboard: r+
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-30 04:43 UTC by Xavier Claessens
Modified: 2011-07-15 05:16 UTC (History)
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Attachments
diff or it didn't happen (42.95 KB, patch)
2011-07-01 02:37 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes
Details | Splinter Review
Add _tp_contacts_to_handles() (2.25 KB, patch)
2011-07-15 02:55 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes
Details | Splinter Review
Add async wrapper for RequestSubscription, AuthorizePublication, RemoveContacts, Unsubscribe and Unpublish (15.50 KB, patch)
2011-07-15 02:55 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes
Details | Splinter Review
Add async wrapper for SetGroupMembers, AddToGroup, RemoveFromGroup, RemoveGroup and RenameGroup (11.45 KB, patch)
2011-07-15 02:56 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes
Details | Splinter Review
add convenient wrappers for single-contact operations (14.64 KB, patch)
2011-07-15 02:56 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes
Details | Splinter Review
Be more positive in doc (5.71 KB, patch)
2011-07-15 02:56 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes
Details | Splinter Review

Description Xavier Claessens 2011-06-30 04:43:05 UTC
tp_cli_foo_call_bar are not introspected, so it is important to wrap them so it can be user from python code.
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-01 02:37:34 UTC
Created attachment 48645 [details] [review]
diff or it didn't happen
Comment 3 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-01 03:01:15 UTC
Review of attachment 48645 [details] [review]:

I just reviewed the top 3 patches. Do we really want to expose those as high level API. Shouldn't we have an higher level / easier API instead?

::: telepathy-glib/channel-contacts.c
@@ +49,3 @@
+ *
+ * Invite all the given @contacts into the channel, or accept requests for
+ * channel membership for @contacts on the pending local list.

This is pretty cryptic if you are not a Telepathy expert. If the goal of this function is to invite people to a channel, then it should be call _invite(). If it it to accept an invitation it should be _accept_invite().

@@ +56,3 @@
+tp_channel_group_add_members_async (TpChannel *self,
+    guint n_contacts,
+    TpContact * const *contacts,

Do we really want to use the n_contacts + *contacts pattern here? In practice, user will always has to allocate a GArray and pass array->data, array->len. The only simpler case is when passing only one contact for which I'd prefer to have another simpler API.

@@ +78,3 @@
+ * Finishes tp_channel_group_remove_members_async()
+ *
+ * Returns: %FALSE if the operation failed, %TRUE otherwise.

We usually use something like "TRUE if the operation was successful, otherwise FALSE" which is a bit more positive. :)

@@ +102,3 @@
+ *
+ * Requests the removal of @contacts from a channel, reject their request for
+ * channel membership on the pending local list, or rescind their invitation on

rescind?

Same problem, this function is way too complicated. High level API should provide an easier API to use, not a direct mapping on the spec.

::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.c
@@ +68,3 @@
+void
+tp_connection_request_subscription_async (TpConnection *self,
+    guint n_contacts, TpContact * const *contacts, const gchar *message,

one arg per line.
Comment 4 Xavier Claessens 2011-07-01 04:16:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> ::: telepathy-glib/channel-contacts.c
> @@ +49,3 @@
> + *
> + * Invite all the given @contacts into the channel, or accept requests for
> + * channel membership for @contacts on the pending local list.
> 
> This is pretty cryptic if you are not a Telepathy expert. If the goal of this
> function is to invite people to a channel, then it should be call _invite(). If
> it it to accept an invitation it should be _accept_invite().

It does both invite and accept. I could add 2 different methods doing the same thing but with different names for API clarity, but I don't think it has much benefit.

> @@ +56,3 @@
> +tp_channel_group_add_members_async (TpChannel *self,
> +    guint n_contacts,
> +    TpContact * const *contacts,
> 
> Do we really want to use the n_contacts + *contacts pattern here? In practice,
> user will always has to allocate a GArray and pass array->data, array->len. The
> only simpler case is when passing only one contact for which I'd prefer to have
> another simpler API.

I think that's the most convenient way if we want to keep multi-contact API. It has the advantages:
1) easy to make for 1 contact: TpContact *contact; foo(self, 1, &contact);
2) easy for static arrays: TpContact *contacts[] = {c1, c2}; foo(self, 2 contacts);
3) easy when getting GPtrArray from other APIs: GPtrArray *contacts = tp_channel_group_dup_local_pending_contacts(channel); tp_channel_group_add_contacts_async(channel, contacts->len, contacts->pdata); to accept all local pending at once.
4) it is consistent with at least tp_connection_upgrade_contacts() and various other APIs taking arrays like tp_proxy_prepare_async().
5) it is introspectable

otoh we could do single-contact APIs, the top commit does it for ContactList and ContactGroups. For the TpChannel case I would call them tp_channel_group_{invite,accept,rescind}_contact_async(TpChannel *self, TpContact *contact, blabla);

Or do you think we need only single-contact API?

> @@ +78,3 @@
> + * Finishes tp_channel_group_remove_members_async()
> + *
> + * Returns: %FALSE if the operation failed, %TRUE otherwise.
> 
> We usually use something like "TRUE if the operation was successful, otherwise
> FALSE" which is a bit more positive. :)

Surely I copied that from somewhere else, but I agree it's better to be positive. I'll make the change.

> @@ +102,3 @@
> + *
> + * Requests the removal of @contacts from a channel, reject their request for
> + * channel membership on the pending local list, or rescind their invitation
> on
> 
> rescind?
> 
> Same problem, this function is way too complicated. High level API should
> provide an easier API to use, not a direct mapping on the spec.

I understand, but then you would need different method names doing the same thing just to have cool names. I'm not sure that's better.

> ::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.c
> @@ +68,3 @@
> +void
> +tp_connection_request_subscription_async (TpConnection *self,
> +    guint n_contacts, TpContact * const *contacts, const gchar *message,
> 
> one arg per line.

ok
Comment 5 Xavier Claessens 2011-07-04 04:29:03 UTC
So the questions raised by Guillaume are basically:

1) Do we want to keep multi-contact API, or only single-contac, or both? IMO most of the time only single-contact API is needed, and it could look nicer, but the multi-contact API is trivial to use with a single contact (1, &contact) and that could save several dbus roundtrips which is which is why we designed the spec like that. And having both is nice for the ContactList stuff because they are on tp_contact_foo_async() but for channel operations it isn't so nice to duplicate the methods...

2) Do we want both tp_channel_group_invite_async() and tp_channel_group_accept_async() methods doing the same thing, for nicer method names, or is it fine to keep tp_channel_group_add_members_async() which does both.

Comments?
Comment 6 Will Thompson 2011-07-07 05:43:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> So the questions raised by Guillaume are basically:
> 
> 1) Do we want to keep multi-contact API, or only single-contac, or both? IMO
> most of the time only single-contact API is needed, and it could look nicer,
> but the multi-contact API is trivial to use with a single contact (1, &contact)
> and that could save several dbus roundtrips which is which is why we designed
> the spec like that. And having both is nice for the ContactList stuff because
> they are on tp_contact_foo_async() but for channel operations it isn't so nice
> to duplicate the methods...

I'm tempted to say “add both, where add_contact_async is a tiny tiny wrapper around add_contactS_async” but I think that will clutter things.

Empathy, for instance, could well use the plural API for inviting contacts to a group chat. Removing contacts could also conceivably be plural: select 5 contacts in the sidebar and mash a [remove] button at the bottom. So I think reasonable applications may want the plural versions, so let's just have plural versions, with clear examples in the docs for how to use them singularly in C.

> 2) Do we want both tp_channel_group_invite_async() and
> tp_channel_group_accept_async() methods doing the same thing, for nicer method
> names, or is it fine to keep tp_channel_group_add_members_async() which does
> both.

It's an implementation detail that they do the same thing on D-Bus. I assume _accept_async() is for accepting other people's join requests, and there would be an _accept_invitation_async() for accepting someone inviting us?
Comment 7 Xavier Claessens 2011-07-11 02:21:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > @@ +78,3 @@
> > + * Finishes tp_channel_group_remove_members_async()
> > + *
> > + * Returns: %FALSE if the operation failed, %TRUE otherwise.
> > 
> > We usually use something like "TRUE if the operation was successful, otherwise
> > FALSE" which is a bit more positive. :)
> 
> Surely I copied that from somewhere else, but I agree it's better to be
> positive. I'll make the change.


Fixed

> > ::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.c
> > @@ +68,3 @@
> > +void
> > +tp_connection_request_subscription_async (TpConnection *self,
> > +    guint n_contacts, TpContact * const *contacts, const gchar *message,
> > 
> > one arg per line.
> 
> ok

Fixed
Comment 8 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-12 05:27:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > So the questions raised by Guillaume are basically:
> > 
> > 1) Do we want to keep multi-contact API, or only single-contac, or both? IMO
> > most of the time only single-contact API is needed, and it could look nicer,
> > but the multi-contact API is trivial to use with a single contact (1, &contact)
> > and that could save several dbus roundtrips which is which is why we designed
> > the spec like that. And having both is nice for the ContactList stuff because
> > they are on tp_contact_foo_async() but for channel operations it isn't so nice
> > to duplicate the methods...
> 
> I'm tempted to say “add both, where add_contact_async is a tiny tiny wrapper
> around add_contactS_async” but I think that will clutter things.
> 
> Empathy, for instance, could well use the plural API for inviting contacts to a
> group chat. Removing contacts could also conceivably be plural: select 5
> contacts in the sidebar and mash a [remove] button at the bottom. So I think
> reasonable applications may want the plural versions, so let's just have plural
> versions, with clear examples in the docs for how to use them singularly in C.

Fair enough.

> > 2) Do we want both tp_channel_group_invite_async() and
> > tp_channel_group_accept_async() methods doing the same thing, for nicer method
> > names, or is it fine to keep tp_channel_group_add_members_async() which does
> > both.
> 
> It's an implementation detail that they do the same thing on D-Bus. I assume
> _accept_async() is for accepting other people's join requests, and there would
> be an _accept_invitation_async() for accepting someone inviting us?

I agree, especially for the accept_invite case: why should user have to pass
his self TpContact to accept an invitation?

What's using this actually? Text for room invitations; StreamedMedia iirc,
Call? Maybe this should be part of the TpChannel subclass to properly watch
the exact semantic depending of the channel types?
Comment 9 Xavier Claessens 2011-07-12 05:45:09 UTC
I think local-pending on TpChannel is only legacy for contact_list channels. For text/call channels it would only contain the self-handle anyway.

So if that's true, I totally agree it would be nicer to have tp_channel-group_accept_invitation() that does a AddMembers with self handle.

Going to make that change in my branch unless someone speaks now :D
Comment 10 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 02:55:55 UTC
Created attachment 49125 [details] [review]
Add _tp_contacts_to_handles()

Help implementing _async(guint n_contacts, TpContact **contacts) methods
Comment 11 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 02:55:59 UTC
Created attachment 49126 [details] [review]
Add async wrapper for RequestSubscription, AuthorizePublication, RemoveContacts, Unsubscribe and Unpublish
Comment 12 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 02:56:04 UTC
Created attachment 49127 [details] [review]
Add async wrapper for SetGroupMembers, AddToGroup, RemoveFromGroup, RemoveGroup and RenameGroup
Comment 13 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 02:56:09 UTC
Created attachment 49128 [details] [review]
add convenient wrappers for single-contact operations
Comment 14 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 02:56:16 UTC
Created attachment 49129 [details] [review]
Be more positive in doc
Comment 15 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 02:59:12 UTC
Review of attachment 49125 [details] [review]:

Looks good.
Comment 16 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 03:13:05 UTC
Review of attachment 49126 [details] [review]:

::: docs/reference/telepathy-glib-sections.txt
@@ +3543,3 @@
 tp_contact_info_list_copy
 tp_contact_info_list_free
+<SUBSECTION contact-list>

You should either add
<INCLUDE>telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.h</INCLUDE>
or include it in connection.h

::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.c
@@ +49,3 @@
+    g_return_if_fail (TP_IS_CONNECTION (self)); \
+    g_return_if_fail (tp_proxy_has_interface_by_id (self, \
+        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_LIST)); \

Isn't this too much? That means apps will have to check if the connection does implement CL before using this function if they don't want to raise a critical.

@@ +72,3 @@
+ * @message: an optional plain-text message from the user, to send to those
+ *  @contacts with the subscription request. The
+ *  #TpConnection:request-uses-message property indicates whether this message

This property doesn't exist yet.

::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.h
@@ +1,2 @@
+/*
+ * connection.h - proxy for a Telepathy connection

bouh
Comment 17 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 03:18:54 UTC
Review of attachment 49127 [details] [review]:

::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.c
@@ +313,3 @@
+    g_return_if_fail (TP_IS_CONNECTION (self)); \
+    g_return_if_fail (tp_proxy_has_interface_by_id (self, \
+    GSimpleAsyncResult *result; \

Same comment as above.

@@ +315,3 @@
+        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_GROUPS)); \
+    g_return_if_fail (_tp_contacts_to_handles (self, n_contacts, contacts, \
+    GArray *handles; \

add g_return_if_fail (group != NULL);

@@ +496,3 @@
+    g_return_if_fail (tp_proxy_has_interface_by_id (self,
+        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_GROUPS));
+}

check group != NULL

@@ +555,3 @@
+    g_return_if_fail (tp_proxy_has_interface_by_id (self,
+        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_GROUPS));
+ * @callback: a callback to call when the operation finishes

Same here, for boths.
Comment 18 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 03:22:40 UTC
Review of attachment 49128 [details] [review]:

::: docs/reference/telepathy-glib-sections.txt
@@ +4210,3 @@
 tp_contact_set_contact_groups_finish
 tp_contact_has_feature
+<SUBSECTION operations>

Same problem regarding the included header.

::: telepathy-glib/contact-operations.c
@@ +1,3 @@
+/* Async operations for TpContact
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora Ltd. <http://www.collabora.co.uk/>

I'm sure Will won't approve this without a proper ©

@@ +32,3 @@
+ * @user_data: data to pass to @callback
+ *
+ * Convenient wrapper for tp_connection_request_subscription_async() on single

"on a single contact" ? Not sure, check with a native.
Comment 19 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 03:23:16 UTC
Review of attachment 49129 [details] [review]:

This patch can easily be splitted and squashed with the appropriate commits.
Comment 20 Xavier Claessens 2011-07-15 04:29:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #16)
> Review of attachment 49126 [details] [review]:
> 
> ::: docs/reference/telepathy-glib-sections.txt
> @@ +3543,3 @@
>  tp_contact_info_list_copy
>  tp_contact_info_list_free
> +<SUBSECTION contact-list>
> 
> You should either add
> <INCLUDE>telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.h</INCLUDE>
> or include it in connection.h

It should be the global telepathy-glib.h actually. Fixed.

> ::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.c
> @@ +49,3 @@
> +    g_return_if_fail (TP_IS_CONNECTION (self)); \
> +    g_return_if_fail (tp_proxy_has_interface_by_id (self, \
> +        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_LIST)); \
> 
> Isn't this too much? That means apps will have to check if the connection does
> implement CL before using this function if they don't want to raise a critical.

I'm not going to make fallbacks to legacy contact-list channels, so we really need ContactList iface. It's better to warn loudly than having apps relying on wrong assumptions. I think apps should wait for ContactList to be implemented into tp-python though.

> @@ +72,3 @@
> + * @message: an optional plain-text message from the user, to send to those
> + *  @contacts with the subscription request. The
> + *  #TpConnection:request-uses-message property indicates whether this message
> 
> This property doesn't exist yet.

right, dropped that part.

> ::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.h
> @@ +1,2 @@
> +/*
> + * connection.h - proxy for a Telepathy connection
> 
> bouh

Fixed


(In reply to comment #17)
> Review of attachment 49127 [details] [review]:
> @@ +315,3 @@
> +        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_GROUPS)); \
> +    g_return_if_fail (_tp_contacts_to_handles (self, n_contacts, contacts, \
> +    GArray *handles; \
> 
> add g_return_if_fail (group != NULL);

fixed

> @@ +496,3 @@
> +    g_return_if_fail (tp_proxy_has_interface_by_id (self,
> +        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_GROUPS));
> +}
> 
> check group != NULL
fixed

> @@ +555,3 @@
> +    g_return_if_fail (tp_proxy_has_interface_by_id (self,
> +        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_GROUPS));
> + * @callback: a callback to call when the operation finishes
> 
> Same here, for boths.

fixed

(In reply to comment #18)
> Review of attachment 49128 [details] [review]:
> 
> ::: docs/reference/telepathy-glib-sections.txt
> @@ +4210,3 @@
>  tp_contact_set_contact_groups_finish
>  tp_contact_has_feature
> +<SUBSECTION operations>
> 
> Same problem regarding the included header.

fixed

> ::: telepathy-glib/contact-operations.c
> @@ +1,3 @@
> +/* Async operations for TpContact
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora Ltd. <http://www.collabora.co.uk/>
> 
> I'm sure Will won't approve this without a proper ©

fixed

> @@ +32,3 @@
> + * @user_data: data to pass to @callback
> + *
> + * Convenient wrapper for tp_connection_request_subscription_async() on single
> 
> "on a single contact" ? Not sure, check with a native.

fixed
Comment 21 Xavier Claessens 2011-07-15 04:30:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #19)
> Review of attachment 49129 [details] [review]:
> 
> This patch can easily be splitted and squashed with the appropriate commits.

done
Comment 22 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 04:38:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #20)
> > ::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.c
> > @@ +49,3 @@
> > +    g_return_if_fail (TP_IS_CONNECTION (self)); \
> > +    g_return_if_fail (tp_proxy_has_interface_by_id (self, \
> > +        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_LIST)); \
> > 
> > Isn't this too much? That means apps will have to check if the connection does
> > implement CL before using this function if they don't want to raise a critical.
> 
> I'm not going to make fallbacks to legacy contact-list channels, so we really
> need ContactList iface. It's better to warn loudly than having apps relying on
> wrong assumptions. I think apps should wait for ContactList to be implemented
> into tp-python though.

I agree, but shouldn't we fail the async operation rather than potentially
crash the app? g_return_if_fail() are used if the app did something wrong but
in that case it's not its fault if a CM is too old.
Comment 23 Xavier Claessens 2011-07-15 04:48:37 UTC
Channel.Group is bug #37359, remove it from the title.
Comment 24 Xavier Claessens 2011-07-15 04:54:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #22)
> (In reply to comment #20)
> > > ::: telepathy-glib/connection-contact-list.c
> > > @@ +49,3 @@
> > > +    g_return_if_fail (TP_IS_CONNECTION (self)); \
> > > +    g_return_if_fail (tp_proxy_has_interface_by_id (self, \
> > > +        TP_IFACE_QUARK_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_CONTACT_LIST)); \
> > > 
> > > Isn't this too much? That means apps will have to check if the connection does
> > > implement CL before using this function if they don't want to raise a critical.
> > 
> > I'm not going to make fallbacks to legacy contact-list channels, so we really
> > need ContactList iface. It's better to warn loudly than having apps relying on
> > wrong assumptions. I think apps should wait for ContactList to be implemented
> > into tp-python though.
> 
> I agree, but shouldn't we fail the async operation rather than potentially
> crash the app? g_return_if_fail() are used if the app did something wrong but
> in that case it's not its fault if a CM is too old.

Ok, smcv agree with you too, so I modified my code.
Comment 25 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-07-15 05:02:03 UTC
++
Comment 26 Xavier Claessens 2011-07-15 05:16:26 UTC
Branch merged !


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