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

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Hi Lizardo,

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012, Garbat Rafal wrote:
> >> 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).
> 
> The registered "watcher" object will have different interface
> depending on the profile. The application which will call
> RegisterWatcher() needs to check that the device supports the expected
> GATT service (e.g. by checking the "UUIDs" property of that device
> object) before using the  org.bluez.HeartRate interface, therefore
> IMHO it makes sense to have RegisterWatcher() on the device object
> path.

I'm not quite following. You'd still have per-profile interfaces on the
adapter path.

> Unless you are proposing a generic Watcher API that could somehow be
> shared by all profiles (including a single shared interface for the
> watcher object)? How to represent data from profiles which are not
> "measurement" based?

I suppose you were directing this at Rafal and not me? I don't think it
makes sense to merge these. I was only saying that the interfaces should
go from Device to Adapter.

Johan
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