Hi Slava, > A couple of examples.
Suppose, we have a UI that allows the user to switch between "Automatic" and "Custom" MMS or GPRS settings. One of the ways to implement that would be to create a new context marked as "manual" and allow the user to edit it. The old context remains but it's marked as "automatic" or whatever. Manual context has a precedence over the automatic one. Switching back to automatic means destroying the "manual" context or marking it as "disabled". All that stuff gets saved to the ofono SIM-specific gprs file so that these context properties don't get lost after swapping SIMs.
That sounds awful from a user perspective. I don't see why you need to store these attributes inside oFono. Just let the user edit the existing context and re-run your provisioning application when the user makes the decision to switch back to 'automatic'. Or better yet, get a decent provisioning database so that the user isn't asked for this at all.
Suppose, we have a different connection management system, which shows the entire list of available access points to the user and allows to choose which one to use. The selected context needs to be marked as "default" or something. Again, this context property needs to survive SIM swap. With a custom context property that's pretty easy to do.
Feel free to suggest something, maybe a Priority attribute. But then again, a better provisioning database or a dedicated provisioning UI would be way nicer from a user perspective.
Every project may have requirements that are more or less unique, often influenced by the UI design. There's no need to push support for unique project specific requirements into the common code, there's nothing here to argue about. It's a matter of whether you want to make ofono a bit more usable as is or you are fine with it being cloned and heavily modified for each particular project.
Knock yourself out then :) Regards, -Denis _______________________________________________ ofono mailing list ofono@ofono.org https://lists.ofono.org/mailman/listinfo/ofono
