Re: [Bluez-devel] Bluetooth MIME types and URIs

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Fred,

> > > At the moment, an item with the mimetype =A8bluetooth/obex-push-pro=
file=A8
> > > can only live inside the sdp kioslave.
> > > Maybe a more correct way would in fact be to have a helper applicat=
ion
> > > associated with the type application/x-bt.service, which gets the
> > > information what device to connect to not from the URL, but from th=
e URL
> > > contents. application/x-bt.service could simply be a file that cont=
ains
> > > the whole service record as xml, similar to the service record file=
s for
> > > the metaserver. The applications would have to parse this xml file,=
 which
> > > isn=B4t very lightweight, but it gives all available information an=
d we
> > > don=B4t have to worry how to squezze everything into an URL.
> >
> > I am not really happy with adding somekind of XML overhead.
>=20
> But it=B4s the most natural format for a hierarchical data structure li=
ke the=20
> service records. The computational overhead would be neglectable and it=
 only=20
> has to be implemented in the service dispatcher, not in each applicatio=
n=20
> started by it. We can put everything we know in the xml structure witho=
ut=20
> much effort. Extending the url format might become more troublesome at =
some=20
> point.=20
> We could also go without the service dispatcher and still use distinct=20
> mimetypes for each service, but let the application read the needed=20
> information from the data the url points to and not from the URL itself.
> We didn=B4t have to standardize on a URL format then, but just on the m=
imetypes=20
> and the service description format, be it xml or anything else.=20
> In KDE it would allow for a kfile plugin which displays additional prop=
erties=20
> of services in konqueror besides the name.=20
> Or we could do both - putting just the most relevant information into t=
he URL=20
> (bdaddr+channel) and the complete service record, device adress + name =
and=20
> everything else we know about a service into the file contents as xml s=
imilar=20
> to sdp registration files we use (see attachment).

actually right now, I don't tend in either direction.

Regards

Marcel




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