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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Dolphin and Baloo
From:       Kevin Krammer <krammer () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-12-17 12:36:56
Message-ID: 3457654.XyRhTEFqqo () persephone
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On Tuesday, 2013-12-17, 13:17:24, Frank Reininghaus wrote:
> Hi Vishesh,
> 
> 2013/12/17 Vishesh Handa:

> > 3. NepomukRolesProviders will be removed and a BalooRolesProvider is
> > required. This is a little hard as the RoleProviders are supposed to
> > synchronous. Baloo only has async APIs. I could call KJob::exec() but I
> > do not that would be wise.
> 
> I think that we should better make use of the async API directly then.
> I would prefer to avoid KJob::exec() because this function sets up a
> nested event loop AFAIK, and I've seen too much trouble that was
> caused by nested event loops already ;-)

Indeed. Can easily be solved though by running the job in a thread and 
blocking the caller.

Looks a bit weird on first look since threads are usually used for making 
synchronous things asynchronous, not the other way around, but ensures nice 
separation of event processing.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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