[webkit-gtk] WebKit2 GTK+ API

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:56:25 -0400 (EDT)
Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> escribió:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:50:22AM +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Since it's a big change, I would like to share some general ideas
> > > I have about the new API so that we can discuss them.
> > >
> > >  - Try to keep webkit1 API when possible to make porting apps
> > >  easier.
> > >  - Use async API following the glib/gio pattern for operations
> > >  started
> > >    by the user like loading a page, finding text, etc. that has an
> > >    end.
> > 
> > I've talked to Carlos and just wanted to do some clarifications
> > about what this would mean. Developers will have to use an API
> > where they add
> > the callbacks for the function instead of connecting to signals, for
> > instance, load uri was:
> > 
> > webkit_web_view_load_uri (WebKitWebView *webView,
> > const gchar *uri);
> > 
> > And now would be:
> > 
> > webkit_web_view_load_uri (WebKitWebView *web_view,
> > const gchar *uri,
> > GCancellable *cancellable,
> > WebKitLoadProgressCallback progress_callback,
> > gpointer progress_callback_data,
> > GAsyncReadyCallback callback,
> > gpointer user_data);
> >
> 
> I'm not sure passing the progress callback like this is the best
> approach. It means e.g. that you have to reconnect the whole progress
> UI handling on each load, in say a webbrowser. Its a nice API if all
> your app does is load a single page, but not right if you want to
> always show the load status of the view in some other widget.
> 
> One possible way to make the API "nicer" is to return a
> WebKitLoadOperation object and have progress signals on that.

what do you mean by return? if load_uri() returns the operation, it
might be too late to connect the signals and you would still have to
connect the signals for every load operation. Or do you mean something
like g_volume_mount() api that takes a mount operation as parameter?

Thanks, 
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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