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+++ b/libtelepathy/tsrc/src/telepathygabbleutils.cpp	Tue Feb 02 01:10:06 2010 +0200
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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2008 - 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description:    File containing Utility functions
+*
+*/
+
+
+
+
+
+//Include files
+#include <e32err.h>
+#include <e32const.h>
+#include <e32base.h>
+
+#include <glib.h>
+
+#include "telepathygabbletestdata.h"
+#include "telepathygabbleutils.h"
+
+
+
+
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// function_name	: CTelepathyGabbleUtils
+// description     	: constructor
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
+guint CTelepathyGabbleUtils::get_handle_from_contact ( const gchar  *contact_id,
+														CTestData* aTestData)
+	 
+{
+
+	guint          handle;
+	gboolean       success;
+	GError        *error = NULL;
+	
+	
+	//check for the return value if 0 is ok or should some negative value to be passed
+	g_return_val_if_fail (contact_id != NULL, 0); 
+	
+	GArray      *handles = NULL;	
+	const gchar *contact_ids[2] ; //contact_ids initialization here gives error ..may be some compiler issue as otherwise okay to initialze here
+	
+	
+	contact_ids[0]= contact_id;
+	contact_ids[1]= NULL;
+	
+
+	success = tp_conn_request_handles (DBUS_G_PROXY (aTestData->GetTpConn()),
+					   TP_CONN_HANDLE_TYPE_CONTACT,
+					   contact_ids, &handles, &error);
+	if( !handles || error )	
+	{
+	 	//do some error handling here
+	 	
+	 	g_error_free(error);
+	 	return KErrNotFound; 
+	}				   
+						   
+
+	handle = g_array_index(handles, guint, 0);
+	g_array_free (handles, TRUE);
+	
+
+	if (!success) 
+	{
+		//test_log_handler ( error->message );
+		g_clear_error (&error);
+		
+		//check for the return value if 0 is ok or should some negative value to be passed
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	return handle;
+}
+
+//  End of File