Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] Heart Rate Profile API

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Hi Rafal,

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012, Garbat Rafal wrote:
> >>I'm wondering if it wouldn't make more sense to have these
> >>RegisterWatcher APIs (thermometer, heart rate, others?) per-adapter
> >>instead of per-device. That would be much friendlier to applications in
> >>that they wouldn't need to separately search for paired/configured
> >>devices supporting a specific service. Moving this to be per-adapter
> >>would also mean that the first parameter of the Watcher methods would be
> >>the object path of which device is in question.
> >So any comments on this? I'd like to get this moving forward and finally
> >merged upstream.
> 
> Sorry for a late reply.
> I guess that moving RegisterWatcher methods to the adapter iface
> sounds reasonable, but we need to think how to do it i.e. to
> properly handle devices that support several profiles based on
> registering watchers (do we want to register watcher for all the
> profiles or have a parameter for Watcher methods to specify the
> target), etc.
> Correct me if I'm wrong or missing something.
> I'd suggest merging heartrate as this profile is quite similar to
> the thermometer and it works (and no one have any objections to the
> code) and re-factor this later on.
> Unfortunately I'll be off for the next three weeks, but I can get
> back to this when I'm back.

Since it's not just a refactoring but an API change/break I'd rather get
this right from the start. The thermometer API should also be updated to
be per-adapter for our next release (BlueZ 5).

Johan
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