On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 08:32 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 17:00 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 19:39 +0530, Chenthill Palanisamy wrote: > > > I would like you to a incorporate some change to the free/busy api. > > > Some servers allow querying free/busy information > > > for multiple users at a time and the results appear in a iterative > > > fashion. The freebusy information of some > > > users are delivered first, while the server keeps fetching other > > > user's free/busy information. So if we could have he > > > FreeBusy api such as this, we could leverage those features, > > > > > > ECalClientFreeBusy > > > e_cal_client_get_freebusy_object_sync (ECalClient *client, time_t > > > start, time_t end, const GSList *users, GCancellable *cancellable, > > > GError **error); > > > (with a async counter-part) > > > > > > Signal: freebusy_received (ECalClientFreeBusy *fbobject, const gchar > > > *user, GSList *ecalcomps) > > > > > > The clients could watch for the signal and update the freebusy > > > information as and when they receive from eds. > > Hi, > I rethought my thoughts about this and I think I follow your idea more > closely now. If I try to rephrase it, then it might be: > > On the server side, add new > e_data_cal_notify_free_busy_data (..., const GSList *ecalcomps); > which invokes a signal on the D-Bus connection about (partial) result > for a free/busy request (note it doesn't provide user separately). > This signal will be valid only while a get_free_busy request is running. > Calling e_data_cal_notify_free_busy_data() out of these functions will > not fail, but the ECalClient consumer may not expect that being done. > With this limitation we'll have a possibility to cancel pending request, > if needed. The e_data_cal_respond_get_free_busy() will have no return > values. We could term it start_free_busy..
> > On the client side, the 'finish' function will be also void and any > information about free-busy will be available exclusively in a > "free-busy-received" signal, which will have a parameter GSList > *ecalcomps. Once a free_busy_done signal is received, the finish function can be called. Yup and on the whole I agree to what you have mentioned here. Thanks, Chenthill. > > I hope we are on the same line now. If you agree, then I'll make a > change in this way. > Thanks and bye, > Milan > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
