[Gossip-dev] GossipChatroomContact must die ?

[Martyn Russell]

Xavier Claessens wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> With telepathy a contact can be in the roster and in a chatroom at the
> same time, it doesn't make any difference for avatar/presence/alias/etc.
> In libgossip we make the difference between GossipContact and
> GossipChatroomContact because there are 2 more properties: affiliation
> and role.

I think I agree here though, sub-classing the GossipContact because of
the Jabber protocol is not really going to work here for Telepathy and
it doesn't really make sense either to me.

> I discussed that with Martyn we see only 2 solutions:
> 
> 1) We move affiliation/role properties to GossipContact and remove
> GossipChatrooContact class.

Hmm, this is interesting. You would have to have a list here anyway -
say you are in 6 chat rooms and have different affiliations/roles for each?

> 2) Store a contact list into GossipChatroom to map for each contact a
> small struct containing his affiliation/role in this chatroom. This have
> the advantage that the same GossipContact object can be added to more
> than one chatroom with different role/affiliation.

I think this logically makes sense and is probably the better way to do
it. In the recent browse chatrooms work I did, I can get a list of
contacts which are in the rooms but I don't actually do anything with it
at the moment in the Jabber backend because I would have to create
contacts and remember them in the backend somehow (even though I might
not be joining that room). It would be easier to store a list of
contacts with the Chatroom in that case.

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Regards,
Martyn