## TpHandleRepoIface TpHandleRepoIface — abstract interface for handle allocation |

## Functions

gboolean | tp_handle_is_valid ()
gboolean | tp_handles_are_valid ()
gboolean | tp_handles_supported_and_valid ()
TpHandle | tp_handle_ref ()
void | tp_handles_ref ()
void | tp_handle_unref ()
void | tp_handles_unref ()
gboolean | tp_handle_client_hold ()
gboolean | tp_handles_client_hold ()
gboolean | tp_handle_client_release ()
gboolean | tp_handles_client_release ()
const char * | tp_handle_inspect ()
void | tp_handle_set_qdata ()
gpointer | tp_handle_get_qdata ()
TpHandle | tp_handle_ensure ()
TpHandle | tp_handle_lookup ()
void | tp_handle_ensure_async ()
TpHandle | tp_handle_ensure_finish ()
#define | TP_TYPE_HANDLE_SET
void | (*TpHandleSetMemberFunc) ()
TpHandleSet * | tp_handle_set_new ()
TpHandleSet * | tp_handle_set_new_containing ()
TpHandleSet * | tp_handle_set_new_from_array ()
TpHandleSet * | tp_handle_set_new_from_intset ()
TpHandleSet * | tp_handle_set_copy ()
void | tp_handle_set_clear ()
void | tp_handle_set_destroy ()
TpIntset * | tp_handle_set_peek ()
void | tp_handle_set_add ()
gboolean | tp_handle_set_remove ()
gboolean | tp_handle_set_is_member ()
void | tp_handle_set_foreach ()
gboolean | tp_handle_set_is_empty ()
int | tp_handle_set_size ()
GArray * | tp_handle_set_to_array ()
GHashTable * | tp_handle_set_to_identifier_map ()
TpIntset * | tp_handle_set_update ()
TpIntset * | tp_handle_set_difference_update ()
gchar * | tp_handle_set_dump ()

## Properties

guint | handle-type | Read / Write / Construct Only

## Types and Values

| TpHandleRepoIface
| TpHandleRepoIfaceClass
| TpHandleSet

## Object Hierarchy

        GBoxed
        ╰── TpHandleSet
        GInterface
        ╰── TpHandleRepoIface

## Prerequisites

TpHandleRepoIface requires GObject.

## Known Implementations

TpHandleRepoIface is implemented by TpDynamicHandleRepo and TpStaticHandleRepo.

## Includes

    #include <telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib.h>

## Description

Abstract interface of a repository for handles, supporting operations which include checking for validity, lookup by string value and lookup by numeric value. See TpDynamicHandleRepo and TpStaticHandleRepo for concrete implementations.

## Functions

### tp_handle_is_valid ()

    gboolean
    tp_handle_is_valid (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                        TpHandle handle,
                        GError **error);

#### Parameters

self | A handle repository implementation |
handle | A handle of the type stored in the repository `self` |
error | Set to InvalidHandle if `FALSE` is returned |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if the handle is nonzero and is present in the repository, else `FALSE`

### tp_handles_are_valid ()

    gboolean
    tp_handles_are_valid (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                          const GArray *handles,
                          gboolean allow_zero,
                          GError **error);

#### Parameters

self | A handle repository implementation |
handles | Array of TpHandle representing handles of the type stored in the repository `self` |
allow_zero | If `TRUE`, zero is treated like a valid handle |
error | Set to InvalidHandle if `FALSE` is returned |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if the handle is present in the repository, else `FALSE`

### tp_handles_supported_and_valid ()

    gboolean
    tp_handles_supported_and_valid (TpHandleRepoIface *repos[TP_NUM_HANDLE_TYPES],
                                    TpHandleType handle_type,
                                    const GArray *handles,
                                    gboolean allow_zero,
                                    GError **error);

Return `TRUE` if the given handle type is supported (i.e. repos[handle_type] is not `NULL`) and the given handles are all valid in that repository. If not, set `error` and return `FALSE`.

#### Parameters

repos | An array of possibly null pointers to handle repositories, indexed by handle type, where a null pointer means an unsupported handle type |
handle_type | The handle type |
handles | A GArray of guint representing handles of the given type |
allow_zero | If `TRUE`, zero is treated like a valid handle |
error | Used to return an error if `FALSE` is returned |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if the handle type is supported and the handles are all valid.

### tp_handle_ref ()

    TpHandle
    tp_handle_ref (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                   TpHandle handle);

`tp_handle_ref` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

This is no-op so can be safely removed.

Do nothing. Since version 0.13.8, handles always last as long as the connection; previously, this function provided refcounting for handles.

Changed in 0.13.6: `handle` is now returned; previously, this function didn't return anything.

#### Parameters

self | not used |
handle | not used |

#### Returns

the same `handle`

### tp_handles_ref ()

    void
    tp_handles_ref (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                    const GArray *handles);

`tp_handles_ref` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

This is no-op so can be safely removed.

Do nothing. Since version 0.13.8, handles always last as long as the connection; previously, this function provided refcounting for handles.

#### Parameters

self | not used |
handles | not used |

### tp_handle_unref ()

    void
    tp_handle_unref (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                     TpHandle handle);

`tp_handle_unref` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

This is no-op so can be safely removed.

Do nothing. Since version 0.13.8, handles always last as long as the connection; previously, this function provided refcounting for handles.

#### Parameters

self | A handle repository implementation |
handle | A handle of the type stored in the repository |

### tp_handles_unref ()

    void
    tp_handles_unref (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                      const GArray *handles);

`tp_handles_unref` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

This is no-op so can be safely removed.

Do nothing. Since version 0.13.8, handles always last as long as the connection; previously, this function provided refcounting for handles.

#### Parameters

self | not used |
handles | not used |

### tp_handle_client_hold ()

    gboolean
    tp_handle_client_hold (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                           const gchar *client,
                           TpHandle handle,
                           GError **error);

`tp_handle_client_hold` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

This is no-op so can be safely removed.

Do nothing. Since version 0.13.8, handles always last as long as the connection; previously, this function provided refcounting for handles.

#### Parameters

self | not used |
client | not used |
handle | not used |
error | not set |

#### Returns

`TRUE`

### tp_handles_client_hold ()

    gboolean
    tp_handles_client_hold (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                            const gchar *client,
                            const GArray *handles,
                            GError **error);

`tp_handles_client_hold` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

This is no-op so can be safely removed.

Do nothing. Since version 0.13.8, handles always last as long as the connection; previously, this function provided refcounting for handles.

#### Parameters

self | ignored |
client | ignored |
handles | ignored |
error | ignored |

#### Returns

`TRUE`

### tp_handle_client_release ()

    gboolean
    tp_handle_client_release (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                              const gchar *client,
                              TpHandle handle,
                              GError **error);

`tp_handle_client_release` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

This is no-op so can be safely removed.

Do nothing. Since version 0.13.8, handles always last as long as the connection; previously, this function provided refcounting for handles.

#### Parameters

self | ignored |
client | ignored |
handle | ignored |
error | ignored |

#### Returns

`TRUE`

### tp_handles_client_release ()

    gboolean
    tp_handles_client_release (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                               const gchar *client,
                               const GArray *handles,
                               GError **error);

`tp_handles_client_release` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

This is no-op so can be safely removed.

Do nothing. Since version 0.13.8, handles always last as long as the connection; previously, this function provided refcounting for handles.

#### Parameters

self | ignored |
client | ignored |
handles | ignored |
error | ignored |

#### Returns

`TRUE`

### tp_handle_inspect ()

    const char *
    tp_handle_inspect (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                       TpHandle handle);

#### Parameters

self | A handle repository implementation |
handle | A handle of the type stored in the repository |

#### Returns

the string represented by the given handle, or NULL if the handle is absent from the repository. The string is owned by the handle repository and will remain valid as long as a reference to the handle exists.

### tp_handle_set_qdata ()

    void
    tp_handle_set_qdata (TpHandleRepoIface *repo,
                         TpHandle handle,
                         GQuark key_id,
                         gpointer data,
                         GDestroyNotify destroy);

`tp_handle_set_qdata` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

Since 0.19.9. It is not recommended to use this function because the associated data won't be freed until the connection disconnects.

Associates a blob of data with a given handle and a given key

If `destroy` is set, then the data is freed when the handle is freed.

Since version 0.13.8, handles always last as long as the connection, so `destroy` will not be called until the connection disconnects.

#### Parameters

repo | A handle repository implementation |
handle | A handle to set data on |
key_id | Key id to associate data with |
data | data to associate with handle |
destroy | A GDestroyNotify to call to destroy the data, or NULL if not needed. |

### tp_handle_get_qdata ()

    gpointer
    tp_handle_get_qdata (TpHandleRepoIface *repo,
                         TpHandle handle,
                         GQuark key_id);

`tp_handle_get_qdata` is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

Since 0.19.9. It is not recommended to use this function because the associated data won't be freed until the connection disconnects.

#### Parameters

repo | A handle repository implementation |
handle | A handle to get data from |
key_id | Key id of data to fetch |

#### Returns

the data associated with a given key on a given handle; `NULL` if there is no associated data.

### tp_handle_ensure ()

    TpHandle
    tp_handle_ensure (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                      const gchar *id,
                      gpointer context,
                      GError **error);

Return a handle for the given string, creating one if necessary. The string is normalized, if possible.

#### Parameters

self | A handle repository implementation |
id | A string whose handle is required |
context | User data to be passed to the normalization callback |
error | Used to return an error if 0 is returned |

#### Returns

the handle corresponding to the given string, or 0 if it is invalid.

### tp_handle_lookup ()

    TpHandle
    tp_handle_lookup (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                      const gchar *id,
                      gpointer context,
                      GError **error);

Return the handle for the given string. The string is normalized if possible. If no handle already exists for the string, none is created.

#### Parameters

self | A handle repository implementation |
id | A string whose handle is required |
context | User data to be passed to the normalization callback |
error | Used to raise an error if the handle does not exist or is invalid |

#### Returns

the handle corresponding to the given string, or 0 if it does not exist or is invalid

### tp_handle_ensure_async ()

    void
    tp_handle_ensure_async (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                            TpBaseConnection *connection,
                            const gchar *id,
                            gpointer context,
                            GAsyncReadyCallback callback,
                            gpointer user_data);

Asyncronously normalize an identifier and create an handle for it. This could involve a server round-trip. This should be used instead of `tp_handle_ensure()` for user provided contact identifiers, but it is not necessary for identifiers from the server.

#### Parameters

self | A handle repository implementation |
connection | the TpBaseConnection using this handle repo |
id | A string whose handle is required |
context | User data to be passed to the normalization callback |
callback | a callback to call when the operation finishes |
user_data | data to pass to `callback` |

Since 0.19.2

### tp_handle_ensure_finish ()

    TpHandle
    tp_handle_ensure_finish (TpHandleRepoIface *self,
                             GAsyncResult *result,
                             GError **error);

Finishes `tp_handle_ensure_async()`

#### Parameters

self | A handle repository implementation |
result | a GAsyncResult |
error | a GError to fill |

#### Returns

non-0 TpHandle if the operation was successful, otherwise 0.

Since 0.19.2

### TP_TYPE_HANDLE_SET

    #define TP_TYPE_HANDLE_SET (tp_handle_set_get_type ())

The boxed type of a TpHandleSet.

Since 0.11.6

### TpHandleSetMemberFunc ()

    void
    (*TpHandleSetMemberFunc) (TpHandleSet *set,
                              TpHandle handle,
                              gpointer userdata);

Signature of the callback used to iterate over the handle set in `tp_handle_set_foreach()`.

#### Parameters

set | The set of handles on which `tp_handle_set_foreach()` was called |
handle | A handle in the set |
userdata | Arbitrary user data as supplied to `tp_handle_set_foreach()` |

### tp_handle_set_new ()

    TpHandleSet *
    tp_handle_set_new (TpHandleRepoIface *repo);

Creates a new TpHandleSet

#### Parameters

repo | TpHandleRepoIface that holds the handles to be reffed by this set |

#### Returns

A new TpHandleSet.

[transfer full]

### tp_handle_set_new_containing ()

    TpHandleSet *
    tp_handle_set_new_containing (TpHandleRepoIface *repo,
                                  TpHandle handle);

Creates a new TpHandleSet from a specified handle repository and single handle.

#### Parameters

repo | TpHandleRepoIface that holds the handles to be reffed by this set |
handle | a valid handle |

#### Returns

A new TpHandleSet.

[transfer full]

Since 0.13.0

### tp_handle_set_new_from_array ()

    TpHandleSet *
    tp_handle_set_new_from_array (TpHandleRepoIface *repo,
                                  const GArray *array);

Creates a new TpHandleSet

#### Parameters

repo | TpHandleRepoIface that holds the handles to be reffed by this set |
array | array of handles to be referenced by this set. | [element-type uint]

#### Returns

A new TpHandleSet.

[transfer full]

Since 0.11.7

### tp_handle_set_new_from_intset ()

    TpHandleSet *
    tp_handle_set_new_from_intset (TpHandleRepoIface *repo,
                                   const TpIntset *intset);

Creates a new TpHandleSet from a specified handle repository and set of handles.

#### Parameters

repo | TpHandleRepoIface that holds the handles to be reffed by this set |
intset | a set of handles, which must all be valid |

#### Returns

A new TpHandleSet.

[transfer full]

Since 0.13.0

### tp_handle_set_copy ()

    TpHandleSet *
    tp_handle_set_copy (const TpHandleSet *other);

Creates a new TpHandleSet with the same contents as `other` .

#### Parameters

other | another handle set |

#### Returns

a new set

Since 0.11.6

### tp_handle_set_clear ()

    void
    tp_handle_set_clear (TpHandleSet *set);

Remove every handle from `set` , releasing the references it holds.

#### Parameters

set | TpHandleSet to clear |

Since 0.11.6

### tp_handle_set_destroy ()

    void
    tp_handle_set_destroy (TpHandleSet *set);

Delete a TpHandleSet and unreference any handles that it holds

#### Parameters

set | TpHandleSet to destroy |

### tp_handle_set_peek ()

    TpIntset *
    tp_handle_set_peek (TpHandleSet *set);

#### Parameters

set | TpHandleSet to peek at |

#### Returns

the underlying TpIntset used by this TpHandleSet.

[transfer none]

### tp_handle_set_add ()

    void
    tp_handle_set_add (TpHandleSet *set,
                       TpHandle handle);

Add a handle to a TpHandleSet, and reference it in the attached TpHandleRepoIface

#### Parameters

set | TpHandleSet to add this handle to |
handle | handle to add |

### tp_handle_set_remove ()

    gboolean
    tp_handle_set_remove (TpHandleSet *set,
                          TpHandle handle);

Remove a handle from a TpHandleSet, and unreference it in the attached TpHandleRepoIface

#### Parameters

set | TpHandleSet to remove this handle from |
handle | handle to remove |

#### Returns

FALSE if the handle was invalid, or was not in this set

### tp_handle_set_is_member ()

    gboolean
    tp_handle_set_is_member (const TpHandleSet *set,
                             TpHandle handle);

Check if the handle is in this set

#### Parameters

set | A TpHandleSet |
handle | handle to check |

#### Returns

TRUE if the handle is in this set

### tp_handle_set_foreach ()

    void
    tp_handle_set_foreach (TpHandleSet *set,
                           TpHandleSetMemberFunc func,
                           gpointer user_data);

Call `func` (`set` , `handle` , `userdata` ) for each handle in `set` .

#### Parameters

set | A set of handles |
func | A callback. | [scope call]
user_data | Arbitrary data to pass to `func` |

### tp_handle_set_is_empty ()

    gboolean
    tp_handle_set_is_empty (const TpHandleSet *set);

Return the same thing as `(tp_handle_set_size (set) == 0)`, but calculated more efficiently.

#### Parameters

set | TpHandleSet to check |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if the set has no members

Since 0.11.6

### tp_handle_set_size ()

    int
    tp_handle_set_size (const TpHandleSet *set);

#### Parameters

set | A set of handles |

#### Returns

the number of handles in this set

### tp_handle_set_to_array ()

    GArray *
    tp_handle_set_to_array (const TpHandleSet *set);

#### Parameters

set | A handle set |

#### Returns

a newly-allocated GArray of guint representing the handles in the set.

[element-type uint]

### tp_handle_set_to_identifier_map ()

    GHashTable *
    tp_handle_set_to_identifier_map (TpHandleSet *self);

Returns a dictionary mapping each handle in `self` to the corresponding identifier, as if retrieved by calling `tp_handle_inspect()` on each handle. The type of the returned value is described as

`Handle_Identifier_Map` in the Telepathy specification.

#### Parameters

self | a handle set |

#### Returns

a map from the handles in `self` to the corresponding identifier.

[transfer full][element-type TpHandle utf8]

### tp_handle_set_update ()

    TpIntset *
    tp_handle_set_update (TpHandleSet *set,
                          const TpIntset *add);

Add a set of handles to a handle set, referencing those which are not already members. The TpIntset returned must be freed with tp_intset_destroy.

#### Parameters

set | a TpHandleSet to update |
add | a TpIntset of handles to add |

#### Returns

the handles which were added (some subset of `add` )

### tp_handle_set_difference_update ()

    TpIntset *
    tp_handle_set_difference_update (TpHandleSet *set,
                                     const TpIntset *remove);

Remove a set of handles from a handle set, dereferencing those which are members. The TpIntset returned must be freed with tp_intset_destroy.

If you want to be able to inspect the handles in the set returned, you must ensure that this function does not cause their refcount to drop to zero, for instance by temporarily taking a reference to all the handles in `remove` , calling this function, doing something with the result and discarding the temporary references.

#### Parameters

set | a TpHandleSet to update |
remove | a TpIntset of handles to remove |

#### Returns

the handles which were dereferenced and removed (some subset of `remove` ).

### tp_handle_set_dump ()

    gchar *
    tp_handle_set_dump (const TpHandleSet *self);

Format a TpHandleSet for debug output.

#### Parameters

self | a handle set |

#### Returns

a string representation of the handle set suitable for debug output.

[transfer full][type utf8]

## Types and Values

### TpHandleRepoIface

    typedef struct _TpHandleRepoIface TpHandleRepoIface;

Dummy typedef representing any implementation of this interface.

### TpHandleRepoIfaceClass

    typedef struct _TpHandleRepoIfaceClass TpHandleRepoIfaceClass;

The class of a handle repository interface. The structure layout is only available within telepathy-glib, for the handle repository implementations' benefit.

### TpHandleSet

    typedef struct _TpHandleSet TpHandleSet;

A set of handles. This is similar to a TpIntset (and implemented using one), but adding a handle to the set also references it.

## Property Details

### The `“handle-type”` property

      “handle-type”              guint

The TpHandleType held in this handle repository.

Flags: Read / Write / Construct Only

Default value: 0

## See Also

TpDynamicHandleRepo, TpStaticHandleRepo