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+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<node name="/Connection_Interface_Balance"
+ xmlns:tp="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/DbusSpec#extensions-v0">
+ <tp:copyright>Copyright © 2009 Collabora Ltd.</tp:copyright>
+ <tp:copyright>Copyright © 2009 Nokia Corporation</tp:copyright>
+ <tp:license xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
+
+ <p>This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.</p>
+
+ <p>You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
+ USA.</p>
+ </tp:license>
+ <interface name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.Balance">
+ <tp:requires interface="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection"/>
+ <tp:added version="0.19.0">(as stable API)</tp:added>
+
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>In many real-time communication services the user can pay for certain
+ services, typically calls to the
+ <abbr title="Public Switched Telephone Network">PSTN</abbr>,
+ in advance. In (at least) Skype, it's possible to query the current
+ balance in a machine-readable way.</p>
+ </tp:docstring>
+
+ <tp:struct name="Currency_Amount">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>An amount of money in a specified currency. For example,
+ 3.21 British pounds would conventionally be represented by
+ (<var>Amount</var> = <tt>321</tt>, <var>Scale</var> = <tt>2</tt>,
+ <var>Currency</var> = <tt>"GBP"</tt>), but could be represented by
+ (<var>Amount</var> = <tt>3210</tt>, <var>Scale</var> = <tt>3</tt>,
+ <var>Currency</var> = <tt>"GBP"</tt>) in a service that records
+ balance in units of 0.001 pounds.</p>
+
+ <p>As a special case, if <var>Amount</var> = <tt>0</tt>,
+ <var>Scale</var> = <tt>2**32 - 1</tt> (i.e. the largest possible
+ 32-bit unsigned integer) and <var>Currency</var> = <tt>""</tt>, this
+ indicates an unknown amount.</p>
+ </tp:docstring>
+
+ <tp:member type="i" name="Amount">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>The amount, expressed as a fixed-point number with decimal scale
+ defined by the <var>Scale</var> field; for instance, an
+ <var>Amount</var> value of <tt>1234</tt> with <var>Scale</var> of
+ <tt>2</tt> represents 12.34 in the currency unit given by the
+ <var>Currency</var> field.</p>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </tp:member>
+ <tp:member type="u" name="Scale">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>The decimal scale for the fixed point value of the
+ <var>Amount</var> field, defining the number of rightmost decimal
+ digits from the integer value which form the fractional part of the
+ resulting currency value.</p>
+
+ <p>As well as defining the interpretation of <var>Amount</var>, user
+ interfaces may use this value to determine the precision with which
+ to display the amount.</p>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </tp:member>
+ <tp:member type="s" name="Currency">
+ <tp:docstring>
+ The currency code represented by this amount, which SHOULD be an
+ international currency code such as <tt>"EUR"</tt>, <tt>"USD"</tt>,
+ or <tt>"JPY"</tt> if possible. An empty string can be used to
+ indicate that the currency is not known.
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </tp:member>
+ </tp:struct>
+
+ <property name="AccountBalance" tp:name-for-bindings="Account_Balance"
+ access="read" type="(ius)" tp:type="Currency_Amount">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>The user's balance on the account corresponding to this <tp:dbus-ref
+ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy">Connection</tp:dbus-ref>.
+ A negative amount may be possible on some services, and indicates
+ that the user owes money to the service provider.</p>
+
+ <p>On initial connection, this property may have an unknown
+ value, represented by <var>Amount</var> = <tt>0</tt>,
+ <var>Scale</var> = <tt>2**32 - 1</tt> (the largest possible 32-bit
+ unsigned integer) and <var>Currency</var> = <tt>""</tt>.</p>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </property>
+
+ <property name="ManageCreditURI"
+ tp:name-for-bindings="Manage_Credit_URI"
+ access="read" type="s">
+ <tp:added version="0.22.2"/>
+ <tp:docstring>
+ A URI the user may visit via the web browser to manage and top-up their
+ account balance. This property is not guaranteed to be well-defined
+ until the connection becomes Connected; there is no change
+ notification.
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ Different protocols and even servers or gateways (e.g. SIP and XMPP
+ PSTN gateways) will have a different website used to manage a user's
+ account balance. This property enables the client to provide that
+ to the user. A Connection Manager MAY set this itself (because it is
+ static or discoverable), or expose it as a connection parameter.
+ </tp:rationale>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </property>
+
+ <signal name="BalanceChanged" tp:name-for-bindings="Balance_Changed">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>Emitted when the user's balance has changed.</p>
+ </tp:docstring>
+
+ <arg name="Balance" type="(ius)" tp:type="Currency_Amount">
+ <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <p>The new value of the <tp:member-ref>AccountBalance</tp:member-ref>
+ property.</p>
+ </tp:docstring>
+ </arg>
+ </signal>
+
+ </interface>
+</node>
+<!-- vim:set sw=2 sts=2 et ft=xml: -->