Hi Arman, On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Arman Uguray <armansito@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Marcel & Luiz, > >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Arman, >> >>>>>>> This patch rewrites the service discovery logic inside >>>>>>> shared/gatt-client. The internal service_list structure has been >>>>>>> entirely removed and services are stored in a gatt_db instance. >>>>>>> Initially, gatt-client creates and owns the life-time of the gatt_db. >>>>>> >>>>>> Im trying to figure out the reason why you want to start with your own >>>>>> gatt_db, is it because it lacks reference counting, if that is the >>>>>> case it should be trivial to add it. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Initially, yes, the lack of reference counting is one reason, which I >>>>> was thinking of adding to gatt-db eventually. Though, what I had in >>>>> mind was that, the gatt-db would be created by gatt-client if you want >>>>> it to perform discovery, otherwise if you construct it with gatt-db >>>>> then it wouldn't do discovery, which would address the permanent cache >>>>> case. So, we would have two "new" functions: >>>>> >>>>> bt_gatt_client_new >>>>> bt_gatt_client_new_from_db >>>>> >>>>> In the first case, if the upper layer wants to make the gatt-db >>>>> outlive the gatt-client, in the future they can just add a reference >>>>> to it and own it and in the next connection they can create the client >>>>> using that same db instance. This is kind of a rough idea right now >>>>> but I think it makes sense. >>>>> >>>>> We can also keep both functions but have both accept a gatt-db as a >>>>> parameter. Not sure what's best here really. >>>> >>>> For unit test maybe we can have bt_gatt_client_new_default, iirc >>>> Marcel suggested something like this for naming, but for the core >>>> daemon it can create a empty db when pairing so even the initial >>>> discovery would use it. This comes back to the idea of having the >>>> callbacks in the db to attribute added/removed, with this logic we >>>> could start creating D-Bus objects by the time a services is >>>> discovered (provided we discover everything necessary) and not only >>>> when bt_gatt_client signals it is done discovering, actually with the >>>> current concept we could be spamming the bus a little too much since >>>> the objects would be created all at same time this would cause several >>>> InterfacesAdded signals in a row at the end of pairing. >>>> >>> >>> I don't know about "_default" naming but are we talking about something like: >>> >>> bt_gatt_client_new(att, mtu, db) /* Does discovery */ >>> bt_gatt_client_new_from_cache(att, mtu, db) /* No discovery */ >>> >>> So both functions get passed a db either way? >> >> actually we might just better only use bt_gatt_client_new() and provide functionality to flush certain devices from the cache. In case we do want to trigger a discovery or re-discovery of devices. >> >> The cache should just work and do the right thing. We should be able set max cacheable service, devices etc. So lets just give the GATT client a cache to work with and that is it. Everything else is an implementation detail between the client and the cache. >> >> I prefer that every client has a cache attached to it (or allow NULL in case we really want to run without a cache). If the cache is independent, it can easily do the right thing for us. >> > > After our brief chat on IRC, please confirm that this is more or less > what we want: > > bt_gatt_client_new(att, mtu, db) -> adds ref to db. > bt_gatt_client_new(att, mtu, NULL) -> creates its own db > > Either function might cause discovery based on whether or not the db > is empty. If it's empty, client always starts discovery, otherwise it > skips it. Sounds good. Sorry for not responding on IRC yesterday, I was away and only noticed today that you have been there. > bt_gatt_client_get_db -> returns db. This would be necessary if we > want to allow passing NULL to bt_gatt_client_new. Hmm, but if we pass NULL, which I suppose is to enable things like unit tests, why would we want to pull the db out of it? As I mention from the core we would probably create the db when pairing so we get notification regarding services changes from discovery, with this mind I guess if the client pass NULL this means the db would be internal. Btw, I guess we should associate a valid db if service changed CCC has been written or perhaps we clear the db if discovery is interrupted before that happens but I guess in some cases we may have a db without a service changed, in case we don't pair for example, in that case we need to rediscover the handles before letting any profile connect otherwise they may end up using invalid handles. > I think all of these are minor details that can be revised later, but > I still need something as a starting point. > > In addition, I'm thinking that gatt-db should have service added and > removed events that can be triggered by set_active and the clear > functions. Something like > > gatt_db_register_service_callbacks(db, added_cb, removed_cb); > > In the client case, added_cb would only be called once all attributes > belonging to the service have been discovered and inserted into the > db. Client would also communicate services that are affected by a > "Service Changed" indication via these callbacks. Either way, I > suggest adding the service callback mechanism in a later patch set. Sounds good, but we might have to introduce this before we start doing changing the core since this will probably be the preferable way the discovery interact with core. > Let me know of this makes sense to everyone. > >> Regards >> >> Marcel >> > > Arman -- Luiz Augusto von Dentz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
