Re: RFC: Ubuntu Touch, MMS, and Provisioning

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

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Hi Slava,

On 03/05/2014 03:39 AM, Slava Monich wrote:
>
>>> 3. No way to associate additional APN properties with a gprs_context.
>>>
>>> apns-conf.xml has many additional APN attributes which don't map
>>> directly to gprs_context properties ( eg. authtype, mvno_type, ... ).
>>>
>>
>> If you have usecases in mind for some of these properties, feel free
>> to suggest extensions to the oFono API.
>>
>
> What do you think about extending org.ofono.ConnectionContext API with
> Add/RemoveProperty calls and PropertyAdded/Removed signals to allow
> platform/application specific properties of type string? Use cases
> include marking connections as preferred/default or assigning priorities
> to them, tracking the origin of the context (OTA, local provision or
> manually edited) and who knows what else.
>

There are practical considerations that make this a bad idea, e.g. 
security concerns or the fact that our dbus bindings do not handle 
dynamic properties.  Putting that aside...

Your suggestion would be completely against our three core design 
values, e.g. "Minimal and Complete"; "Consistent" and "Easy to Use".

I'm open to adding additional properties the "old way" if you can argue 
good use cases for them.

Regards,
-Denis