954127 - redesign the prplIMessage xpcom interface

Status: NEW

(Chat Core :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 692 at 2011-02-11 14:52:00 UTC ***

We should redesign the API around messages to make it more add-ons friendly.
Some needs:
 - get a plain text (not HTML!) version of the message (bug 953499 (bio 48))
 - provide a list of possible actions related to the message (to show them in context menus, or on buttons, as proposed in bug 954064 (bio 628)).
 - some new flags for add-on generated messages, like a for example a way to bypass the content filters, so that an add-on can inject an image in the conversation.
 - have a way to intercept and modify messages at several steps of the handling of messages: when they are received, before they are displayed, before sending, after a message has been sent, ... (use cases: Pastebin add-on (need to change the message before it's sent), OTR (need to change the message text just when it's received, and just before it's sent), video preview (need to know when a message is displayed, to insert some content just after it with the preview)
 - ... (probably more needs that I can't remember / haven't thought about yet).

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 692 at 2011-05-23 16:26:43 UTC ***

It's too late to start working on this for 0.3. We still want this for a later release.