Add private helper to serialize TplEntityType into a string

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/telepathy-logger/entity-internal.h b/telepathy-logger/entity-internal.h
index c89d82c..4058a25 100644
--- a/telepathy-logger/entity-internal.h
+++ b/telepathy-logger/entity-internal.h
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ typedef struct
 } TplEntityClass;
 
 gint _tpl_entity_compare (TplEntity *e1, TplEntity *e2);
+TplEntityType _tpl_entity_type_from_str (const gchar *type_str);
+const gchar * _tpl_entity_type_to_str (TplEntityType type);
 
 G_END_DECLS
 #endif // __TPL_ENTITY_INTERNAL_H__
diff --git a/telepathy-logger/entity.c b/telepathy-logger/entity.c
index f816e8d..504e0c5 100644
--- a/telepathy-logger/entity.c
+++ b/telepathy-logger/entity.c
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ enum
   PROP_AVATAR_TOKEN
 };
 
+static const gchar * entity_types[] = {
+    "unknown",
+    "contact",
+    "room",
+    "self"
+};
+
+
 static void
 tpl_entity_finalize (GObject *obj)
 {
@@ -379,3 +387,24 @@ _tpl_entity_compare (TplEntity *a,
   else
     return 1;
 }
+
+
+TplEntityType
+_tpl_entity_type_from_str (const gchar *type_str)
+{
+  guint i;
+  for (i = 0; i < G_N_ELEMENTS (entity_types); ++i)
+    if (!tp_strdiff (type_str, entity_types[i]))
+      return (TplEntityType) i;
+
+  /* default case */
+  return TPL_ENTITY_UNKNOWN;
+}
+
+
+const gchar *
+_tpl_entity_type_to_str (TplEntityType type)
+{
+  g_return_val_if_fail (G_N_ELEMENTS (entity_types) >= type, "unknown");
+  return entity_types[type];
+}