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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:53:38 +0200
From: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
To: Jaganath <jaganath.k@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FTP file authorization and transfer progress support
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Hi Jaganath,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011, Jaganath wrote:
> Currently in OBEXD, only OPP put has authorization and file progress
> indication. I am planning to implement the same in FTP put/get/delete the
> same way as it does in OPP. But application may need to know the type of the
> obex operation to which the Authorize method is invoked. So I am planning to
> add a new method namely GetProperties in transfer, which returns the type of
> the operation (put/get/delete) so that application can use it in Authorize
> method. Please let me know your suggestions.

We try to avoid such extra round-trips in our D-Bus APIs. If such a
feature is really needed the essential context information should be
provided as parameters to the "authorize" call.

Johan