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Subject: Re: Add name and namePrefix filter to SetDiscoveryFilter
From: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
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Hi François,

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:09 PM, François Beaufort
<beaufort.francois@gmail.com> wrote:
> The SetDiscoveryFilter method already has UUIDs, RSSI, Pathloss and
> Transport filters.
> I was wondering if it would be possible to add "name" and "namePrefix"
> filters to this list?
>
> I'm shamelessly asking this because the Web Bluetooth API has added
> these filters: http://webbluetoothcg.github.io/web-bluetooth/#dictdef-bluetoothscanfilter

I guess we can extend with more filters but Im afraid having 2 filters
like that can be confusing, what if name and prefix are set? Shall it
can an error? What should be the logic AND or OR operation? I guess
like with the other we need a merge strategy if multiple clients set a
filter with different names.



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Luiz Augusto von Dentz