2 <node name="/Connection_Interface_Renaming" xmlns:tp="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/DbusSpec#extensions-v0">
3 <tp:copyright> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Collabora Limited </tp:copyright>
4 <tp:copyright> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Nokia Corporation </tp:copyright>
5 <tp:copyright> Copyright (C) 2006 INdT </tp:copyright>
6 <tp:license xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
7 <p>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
8 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
9 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
10 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
12 <p>This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
15 Lesser General Public License for more details.</p>
17 <p>You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
18 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
19 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</p>
21 <interface name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.Renaming"
22 tp:causes-havoc='not well-tested'>
23 <tp:requires interface="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection"/>
24 <signal name="Renamed" tp:name-for-bindings="Renamed">
25 <arg name="Original" type="u" tp:type="Contact_Handle">
27 The handle of the original identifier
30 <arg name="New" type="u" tp:type="Contact_Handle">
32 The handle of the new identifier
35 <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
36 <p>Emitted when the unique identifier of a contact on the server
39 <p>Any channels associated with the contact's original handle will
40 continue to be to that handle, and so are no longer useful (unless
41 the contact renames back, or another contact connects with that
42 unique ID). Clients may open a similar channel associated with the
43 new handle to continue communicating with the contact.</p>
45 <p>For example, if a GUI client associates text
46 channels with chat windows, it should detach the old channel
47 from the chat window, closing it, and associate a channel to the
48 new handle with the same window.</p>
50 <p>If the contact's old handle is in any of the member lists of
51 a channel which has the groups interface, it will be removed from
52 the channel and the new handle will be added. The resulting
54 namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Interface.Group">MembersChanged</tp:dbus-ref>
55 signal must be emitted <em>after</em> the
56 <tp:member-ref>Renamed</tp:member-ref> signal; the reason should be
60 <p>The handles may be either general-purpose or channel-specific.
61 If the original handle is general-purpose, the new handle must be
62 general-purpose; if the original handle is channel-specific, the
63 new handle must be channel-specific in the same channel.
67 <method name="RequestRename" tp:name-for-bindings="Request_Rename">
68 <arg direction="in" name="Identifier" type="s">
70 The desired identifier
73 <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
74 <p>Request that the user's own identifier is changed on the server.
75 If successful, a <tp:member-ref>Renamed</tp:member-ref> signal will
76 be emitted for the current "self handle" as returned by <tp:dbus-ref
77 namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection">GetSelfHandle</tp:dbus-ref>.</p>
78 <p>It is protocol-dependent how the identifier that's actually
79 used will be derived from the supplied identifier; some sort of
80 normalization might take place.</p>
83 <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.Disconnected"/>
84 <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.NetworkError"/>
85 <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.NotAvailable"/>
86 <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.InvalidArgument"/>
87 <tp:error name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.PermissionDenied"/>
91 An interface on connections to support protocols where the unique
92 identifiers of contacts can change. Because handles are immutable,
93 this is represented by a pair of handles, that representing the
94 old name, and that representing the new one.
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