Re: Rework of full resolution

[Guillaume Emont <gemont igalia com>]

I forgot to mention: this deprecates key_depends(), but remains
compatible with plugins that aren't ported to the new API (and displays
lots of warnings to motivate people to update the plugins).

On 17/02/2011 23:39, Guillaume Emont wrote:
> This patchset reworks full resolution in the following ways:
>  - _key_depends() is deprecated by a new _may_resolve() that provides more
>    information and cleaner semantics, fixing bug #640667 [1]
>  - the functionality of grl_metadata_source_setup_full_resolution_mode() is
>    split into two parts, grl_metadata_source_expand_operation_keys() and
>    grl_metadata_source_get_additional_sources(). One being called before the
>    operation, and the other one after.
>
> I have started work on proper unit testing of this, based on test sources I had
> already started [2], but as it is a very lengthy task, I have decided to
> postpone it for now. Instead, I ran some tests with grilo-test-ui trying to
> cover most of the common cases that happen with the current metadata providers
> we have, and things seem to run smoothly.
>
> It now gives real usefulness to plug-ins such as lastfm, gravatar or
> local-metadata, since they are now called and able to provide information that
> the media source claimed it could get but didn't manage to get (common with
> e.g. upnp or tracker).
>
> Guij
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640667
> [2] http://www.gitorious.org/~guijemont/grilo/guijemont-sandbox/commits/test_sources
>
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