Facebook Protocol Discussion - Miranda IM

jarvis · #1 31 May 2009, 2:00 PM

TEST BUILD 0.0.0.7 DEBUG UNICODE [BUILD #562]
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Debug build
Includes proto icons from Addons
REQUIRES Visual C/C++ 8 Runtime libraries installed as I'm currently not building statically nor in Visual C++ 6
I recommend NOT being logged in a Facebook chat via browser etc., it should work together, but when you turn off web chat and connect both Miranda and web browser at the same time, you should be able to use them together pretty fine
I also RECOMMEND using Crash Dumper plug-in along with this plug-in, it should be pretty stable, but I would like to know when some error occurs. To make a good crash report, you must include all the files from the archive in your Plugins folder, otherwise the report is useless! Also, you should provide the .mdmp file, as .txt one is often useless.

Changelog for 0.0.0.7:

Fixed occasional blocking crash on startup caused by missing personal avatar file
Reworked contacts parsing
Thread-safe buddy loop
Featuring notifications, including Live Feed
More encoding options in HTTP traffic
More proper parsing of homepage
Renamed html_special_chars_decode to special_expressions_decode
Enhanced threads killing and locking
Improved sign-off
Fixed broken keep-alive hadling
Rewritten contacts update logic
Redesigned "What's on my mind" dialog
Fixed some JSON parser bugs
Fixed default user-agent string
Fixed contacts status to be loaded before protocol is marked online
Simplified number-to-string convertor definitions

Known issues for 0.0.0.7:

Setting status via Miranda core still has issues with codepage conversions, please use Mind dialog instead

All-time Not-issues:

Status messages are not set properly when you set them to often — server limit requires captcha confirmation when you flood
Being disconnected sometimes — server fault, mostly caused by server time-out side to side with restrictive connection politics — enhancements are on the go
Away status is not applicable. FB doesn't support any controllable Away status

original post:

Quote:

Hi,
since 2 or 3 days ago, I started basic works on implementation of a Facebook protocol. I hope I'll have enough time/luck/skills in next weeks to move this project some acceptable direction, nowadays I play with basic things including requests to the Facebook REST server, implementing some basic utils (code management, signature generation and more).

What I'd like to say right now at this stage -- any help from your side is welcome :) If you have any concrete experience with Facebook, its API, or even if you already made some kind of implementation, I would be very glad if you'd tell me. C/C++, PHP code snippets would be fine :) Same as links to some already-done projects (mainly some example of already working messaging support would be fine, this would help me very much)

Current stage -- ideas, planning:
- programming language: mixture of C/C++
- Facebook data requesting: REST server (I also wondered about parsing an HTML session, not regular, but mobile one at m.facebook.com, but only if it would be necessary)
- Miranda compatibility: 0.8+ (I'd like to throw away back compatibility because of lots of stuff present in 0.7 and 0.8 branches -- accounts, core XML parser, core MD5 etc.)

Planned features:
Synchronizing friends
Getting/setting own "What's on my mind" status
Viewing friends' statuses
Sending/receiving instant messages (not regular inbox/sent messages most probably)
Popup events
Updater support
Friends' avatars
Setting own avatar/other info

PS: Please, don't feed this topic with tons of "thank you'n'wow" replies, I'd prefer to leave it objective as much as possible. Thanks for understanding :)

CoZmicShReddeR · #2 4 Jun 2009, 5:43 AM

Just want to say thanks cannot wait to see this get completed!

vlatko · #3 4 Jun 2009, 10:16 PM

Will it be possible to migrate from the current nimus-jabber contacts to the new protocol easily? My miranda db is already loaded with hunderds of FB people. For start you can just go with basic chat. View online/away status and viewing avatars...all else is extra, not necessary. Also "view FB profile" will be fine...it is very easy.

There are one/few similar topics on FB here on this forum. I hope you are aware of it, there are some ideas there already.

I already have protocol icons for this in Tango style ;)

Standa L · #4 6 Jun 2009, 9:02 PM

Sounds great! Držim palce ;)

Behemoth · #5 7 Jun 2009, 2:44 PM

I would second this motion.. I think it will be relatively easy, because the Jabber ID (jid) always starts with the Facebook Code Number like
1479******@facebook.nimbuzz.com, a filter for that should be easy to implement...
If u need help about more details in the Database, I would volunteer to help..

Quote:

Originally Posted by vlatko

Will it be possible to migrate from the current nimus-jabber contacts to the new protocol easily? My miranda db is already loaded with hunderds of FB people. For start you can just go with basic chat. View online/away status and viewing avatars...all else is extra, not necessary. Also "view FB profile" will be fine...it is very easy.

There are one/few similar topics on FB here on this forum. I hope you are aware of it, there are some ideas there already.

I already have protocol icons for this in Tango style ;)

TucknDar · #6 7 Jun 2009, 10:16 PM

Sounds promising! Let us know when/if you need testers.

I'm sure your aware of it, but if not, there's a Facebook plugin for Pidgin, and sources can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-face...downloads/list

I'm not a coder, so don't know if that was helpful or not, but I suppose it couldn't hurt ;)