Add clear_peripherals method to adapter #382
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| @@ -355,6 +355,9 @@ pub trait Central: Send + Sync + Clone { | |||
| /// Add a [`Peripheral`] from a MAC address without a scan result. Not supported on all Bluetooth systems. | |||
| async fn add_peripheral(&self, address: &PeripheralId) -> Result<Self::Peripheral>; | |||
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| /// Clear the list of [`Peripheral`]s that have been discovered so far. | |||
| async fn clear_peripherals(&self) -> Result<()>; | |||
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As far as I can see there's no need for this to be async.
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I think it is best to keep it async, so that if a new platform (or even a linux solution later) needs it to be async we don't have to break the API. What do you think?
| @@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ impl Central for Adapter { | |||
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| async fn clear_peripherals(&self) -> Result<()> { | |||
| Err(Error::NotSupported( | |||
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I'm worried that this will result in people writing programs that crash on Linux as they only tested it on other platforms. What do you think about this just being a silent no-op on Linux? Not being able to clear the peripheral list shouldn't be a big issue in most cases I can think of.
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That sounds good, I'll change it. It may be possible to clear the bluez list, but the bluez-async lib doesn't seem to currently support it.
Add clear_peripherals method to adapter, so that the peripheral list can be cleared after being used.
Without this, the list would keep growing until the whole adapter object is dropped.
The method returns a result so that later if a platform/functionality needs to be fallible the API won't need to be changed.
AFAIK, Linux doesn't support this as the peripheral list comes from bluez directly.
Solves #206