Bug 23425

Summary:	GeoclueMasterClient should auto destroy upon Geoclue crashing
Product:	GeoClue	Reporter:	Pierre-Luc Beaudoin <pierre-luc>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Geoclue Bugs <geoclue-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Geoclue Bugs <geoclue-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	patch
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Pierre-Luc Beaudoin 2009-08-20 11:43:27 UTC

Host applications using GeoclueMasterClient should be informed that the client died (because geoclue-master crashed).  This way, they can recreate one and resetup the needed requirements and continue getting a position.

I suggest an approach similar to what Telepathy does: when the dbus object dies, GeoclueMasterClient emits an invalidated signal.  Host applications can react on this (and create a new client).

This will bugs in Empathy where Geoclue would crash and never get another geolocation.

The branch fix-geoclue-dying has the fix http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/pierlux/geoclue.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fix-geoclue-dying

Comment 1 Keith Preston 2009-08-20 14:09:03 UTC

This is a good upgrade, pushed.

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