Telepathy Tubes are created by calling CreateChannel with the type of Tube, target and required properties (see Section 6.1 ― Requesting Channels). The target can either be a contact (Handle_Type_Contact) or a room (Handle_Type_Room). Example 11-1 gives some example parameter maps to create Tubes.
Telepathy originally had a different API for implementing Telepathy Tubes, org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.Tubes.
This API was deprecated because it had several serious design flaws and did not allow for future expansion.
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.ChannelType | org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.DBusTube |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.TargetHandleType | Handle_Type_Contact |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.TargetID | "bob@example.com" |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.DBusTube.ServiceName | "com.example.ExampleService" |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.ChannelType | org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.DBusTube |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.TargetHandleType | Handle_Type_Room |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.TargetID | "tubegame@conference.xmpp.example.com" |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.DBusTube.ServiceName | "com.example.TubeGame" |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.ChannelType | org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.StreamTube |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.TargetHandleType | Handle_Type_Contact |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.TargetID | "bob@example.com" |
| org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.StreamTube.Service | "ssh" |
Once the initiator has created the channel, it must be offered to the receipient/group. This is done by calling the Offer method. The parameters to this method depend on the type of Tube that is being offered. Once the Tube is offered it will be in the Remote Pending state.
Calling the Offer method requires you to be able to establish a contact's capabilities. For some protocols, e.g. XMPP, this requires being subscribed to the contact's presence.
Figure 11-1 presents an overview of setting up a Tube.
