[Adium-devl] Logging Enhancements

[Chris Forsythe]

Really? It seems like something only a few people would use.

Chris

On Aug 10, 2007, at 2:27 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> 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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