Re: [PATCH 00/15] Capabilities and Options

[Guillaume Emont <guijemont igalia com>]

For those who prefer, I have pushed that on gitorious:
https://www.gitorious.org/~guijemont/grilo/guijemont-sandbox
in the "caps_and_options" branch

Guij

Excerpts from gemont's message of Fri Dec 02 18:36:26 +0100 2011:
> Here is the long awaited introduction of capabilities and operation options in
> Grilo. This is for the master branch and not meant to be backported to 0.1.x as
> this breaks the API.
> A matching patch set for grilo-plugins will follow shortly.
> 
> The operation options consist in an object passed for each operation
> (_resolve(), _browse(), _search(), _query()) to specify "options" that define
> how the operation should be carried out. As of this patchset, the list of
> options is rather limited (skip, count and flags, which were previously passed
> as individual arguments), but the big advantage of this approach is its
> extensibility: new options can be added without breaking API or ABI. I have
> other patch sets waiting that depends on this extensibility to add the ability
> to filter results.
> 
> This subject has been previously discussed in various threads of this mailing list, such as the following:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/grilo-list/2011-March/msg00120.html
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/grilo-list/2011-March/msg00271.html
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/grilo-list/2011-April/msg00006.html
> 
> Which might help to understand some design decisions.
> 
> The patches can be categorised in several categories:
>  * Introduction of Capabilities and Options
>     [PATCH 01/15] core: Added some helper functions to handle GValues
>     [PATCH 02/15] core: add operation option keys
>     [PATCH 03/15] core: introduced GrlCaps
>     [PATCH 04/15] core: introducing GrlOperationOptions
>     [PATCH 05/15] core: added caps and operation options to build system
>     [PATCH 06/15] core: Moved GrlMetadataResolutionFlags into
>  * Integration into existing code
>     [PATCH 07/15] core: use GrlOperationOptions in
>     [PATCH 08/15] core: added grl_metadata_source_get_caps()
>     [PATCH 09/15] core: make media source operations use
>     [PATCH 10/15] core: make grl_multiple_*() operations use
>  * Update of various things that needed updating
>     [PATCH 11/15] doc: included caps and options in the documentation
>     [PATCH 12/15] test-ui: ported to the new APIs with
>     [PATCH 13/15] tests: added first tests for options and caps
>     [PATCH 14/15] examples: ported to new APIs using caps and options
>     [PATCH 15/15] vala: update binding and example for the caps and
> 
> The documentation is not complete yet, but I believe this can be improved
> later, and hopefully before the first 0.2.x release.
> 
> Hope you like it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Guij