[Adium-devl] Logging Enhancements

[Colin Barrett]

I think we would want this functionality in Adium itself.

The reason why it's not in there right now is that nobody's bothered  
to implement it.

-Colin

On Aug 9, 2007, at 11:46 PM, George Armah wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to write a plugin that enables logging individually  per
> contact rather than the way it is set up now. (ref tickets #8, #6626,
> #2269).
> After reading through the source I currently have two implementation
> options:
>
> The first is to subclass AILoggerPlugin and have the new class  
> uninstall
> the original plugin. The new class will be have exactly like the
> original plugin
> until the user decides to disable / enable logging individually.
>
> The second option is to use categories to do method swizzling with the
> methods under the -pragma mark Logging section in AILoggerPlugin.  
> The new
> methods would facilitate individual logging if a user chooses that
> option, they'll be identical to the old methods otherwise.
>
>
> In terms of UI, from what I know, the only way for a user to modify  
> per
> contact attributes using Adium's interfaces is via the contextual  
> menu.
> (There are some
> exceptions to this like Blocking). I plan to have Enable Logging and
> Disable Logging in the contextual menu and in the main menu bar under
> Contacts.
> To avoid confusion, I'll have the Log Messages under General  
> preferences
> override any plugin options ie. if you have it enabled then you can't
> log chats per contact.
>
> Someone also mentioned on IRC that a better way to do this would be to
> modify AILoggerPlugin so that it has "hooks" other classes can use if
> they want to modify logging behavior. I haven't thought through this  
> in
> detail but I'll look into doing these hooks for individual logging vs.
> normal logging settings.
>
> I wanted to pass my plans by the devs here before starting actual  
> code.
>
>
> thanks in advance for feedback,
>
> George.
>
>
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