Re: Problems with Gio implementation

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Note for other reviewers that this is a bug that Javier apparently
opened on the subject:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594234


On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 13:10 +0200, Javier Jardón wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working in the gio implementation for tinymail but I have some
> problems (sorry if some of them are obvious, I'm new in Glib/GTK+
> development):
> 
> The tinymail stream  (tny-stream) [1] is a in/out stream.
> The problem is that in gio there is not in/out streams, so you have to
> use a output stream or a input stream.
> 
> I try to solve this working with two streams internally, so you have to
> pass the two stream when calling the function:
> 
> TnyStream*
> tny_gio_stream_new (GInputStream *input_stream, GOutputStream
> *output_stream)
> 
> 
> But there are functions like
> 
> tny_gio_is_eos (TnyStream *self) [2]
> 
> that return priv->eos variable, but now I have in_eos and out_eos so,
> How can I know what variable return?
> 
> Other example is:
> 
> tny_gio_set_bounds (TnySeekable *self, off_t start, off_t end) [3]
> 
> How can I know what stream I should configure, the input stream or the
> output stream?
> 
> 
> Regards and thank you for your help.
> 
> [1] http://tinymail.org/API/libtinymail-1.0/libtinymail-tny-stream.html
> [2] http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/browser/trunk/libtinymail-gnomevfs/tny-vfs-stream.c#L325
> [3] http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/browser/trunk/libtinymail-gnomevfs/tny-vfs-stream.c#L416


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