Virtual Method

PurpleProtocolgenerate_account_name

unstable since: 3.0

Declaration [src] 

char*
generate_account_name (
  PurpleProtocol* protocol,
  PurpleAccount* account,
  guint n_accounts
)

Description [src]

Generates a name for an account.

This is used to attempt to generate a simple name for an account. Something like “IRC 1”.

The n_accounts parameter is the number of existing accounts with the same protocol.

This may be called multiple times for the same account if a duplicate account name is found.

Available since: 3.0

Parameters

account

Type: PurpleAccount

The account whose name to generate.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
n_accounts

Type: guint

The number of accounts.

Return value

Type: char*

The new account name.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.