[Adium-devl] Sending of Messages

[Colin Barrett]

Just a hint: I would recommend attacking this problem from the angle  
of a special implementation of the postProcessContent method.

In fact, that's how I was going to attack the problem.

-Colin

On Nov 18, 2006, at 11:55 PM, Thomas Karpiniec wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I'm a beginning Obj-C/cocoa programmer and have been looking to
> contribute to Adium if I can. I have been looking at this ticket
> <http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/2269> (Add the ability to turn logging
> on and off by contact) and have been trying to find the relevants
> parts of the code to implement something like that, my major issue
> being finding where messages are actually sent so I can identify and
> modify logging. Basically I'm wondering how the message ever gets
> sent. This is what I've noticed so far:
>
> A lot of searching around has led me to -processAndSendObject in
> AIContentController, which seems to identify the account and the
> AIContentObject then handle it accordingly. In the case of a typing
> object, it sends a sendTypingObject message and if it's a message, it
> filters out file transfers, encodes the message using the relevant
> account class, then finally sends a message:
>
> if ([contentMessage encodedMessage]) {
> 	success = [sendingAccount sendMessageObject:contentMessage];
> }
>
> which would make sense except if I look in AIAccount.m:
>
> /*!
>  * @brief Send a message
>  *
>  * The content object contains all the necessary information for  
> sending,
>  * including the destination contact. [inMessageObject encodedMessage]
> contains the NSString which should be sent.
>  */
> - (BOOL)sendMessageObject:(AIContentMessage *)inMessageObject
> {
> 	return NO;
> }
>
> it looks like it returns a no. The sendTypingObject message doesn't
> even return anything, it's completely empty. So how does the message
> get anywhere?
>
> If anyone could give me any pointers in the right direction I would
> really appreciate it!
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Thomas Karpiniec
>
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