MSN Development

Hello All,

I am in a point where I think I will need some help (a lot
at the beginnig).

I have been following the ICQ implementation and
"coding" the MSN one. 
When I saw things related to service regitration in the
first, I created 
the same thing for the second, changing their names.

Now I arrived in a point where I have to implement things in
MSN such as 
connecting and handling this connection, precense and
contacts handling  
and so on. My problem is that I can't see how to test thing
as I code 
them, because this software architecture is a lot different
from the 
things I have seen, and because as I look the test classes,
I couldn't 
manage to understand how their were developed.

If I didn't miss-understand it:
ProtocolProviderServiceMsnImpl is supposed to create one
instace of the 
service for each passport that shall connect.

OperationSetPersistencePresenceMsnImpl shall handle the
connection and 
contact list as well as start their approprieted listeners.
Is it 
supposed to create the connection with the notification
server as well???

It would be really helpful if anyone could give me hints on
how to start 
testing things, so I would be able to test the things I have
created so 
fare. What I did so fare is create the 
net.java.sip.communicator.slick.protocol.msn.MsnProtocolProv
iderSlick 
and the msn.provider.slick.manifest.mf files, but the first
is almost 
raw yet and the second is just like the onde created to the
ICQ 
implementation.

Thank you all for your help,
Best regards

Pedro Oliveira

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Hello Pedro,

> I have been following the ICQ implementation and
"coding" the MSN one. 
> When I saw things related to service regitration in the
first, I created 
> the same thing for the second, changing their names.

OK. That's just fine.

> Now I arrived in a point where I have to implement
things in MSN such as 
> connecting and handling this connection, precense and
contacts handling  
> and so on. My problem is that I can't see how to test
thing as I code 
> them, because this software architecture is a lot
different from the 
> things I have seen, and because as I look the test
classes, I couldn't 
> manage to understand how their were developed.

I've just added a section to the step by step
implementation guide on 
sip-communicator.org

https://www.sip-communicat
or.org/index.php/Documentation/PPImplementorsStepByStepGuide


I hope I am answering your questions in there (there's also
a section 
about slicks at the end of it) but if you need more details
I'll be 
happy to extend the doc (and I'll try to do it quickly  ).

> If I didn't miss-understand it:
> ProtocolProviderServiceMsnImpl is supposed to create
one instace of the 
> service for each passport that shall connect.

Yes exactly! And that's where you go online.

> OperationSetPersistencePresenceMsnImpl shall handle the
connection and 
> contact list as well as start their approprieted
listeners. Is it 
> supposed to create the connection with the notification
server as well???

What is a notification server? I have no idea how MSN works
but if a 
notification server is the server that sends status updates
concerning 
presence status of your contacts then yes you could connect
to it in 
here. You could also connect to it inside the provider
itself and then 
hand the connection to the presence operation set so that it
could use it.

If this notification server is the same as the one where
initially login 
(again I don't know anything about MSN) you should
establish this 
connection inside the provider and use it from the presence
operation set.

> It would be really helpful if anyone could give me
hints on how to start 
> testing things, so I would be able to test the things I
have created so 
> fare. What I did so fare is create the 
>
net.java.sip.communicator.slick.protocol.msn.MsnProtocolProv
iderSlick 
> and the msn.provider.slick.manifest.mf files, but the
first is almost 
> raw yet and the second is just like the onde created to
the ICQ 
> implementation.

Have a look at what I've written on the page that I
indicated above. You 
could also have a look at the SIP slick since it is still
quite simple 
and you could pretty much reuse everything that's in it for
your own 
slick. It is not much right now but it's a start.

You are the first non-local to implement a protocol provider
service all 
by himself so the road is going to be bumpy and steep.
Don't give up and 
let us know every time you need some information or when you
think that 
what's available in the developer's doc is insufficient
and/or 
incorrect. I'll try to be as reactive as possible!

Thanks and good luck!
Emil

> Thank you all for your help,
> Best regards
> 
> Pedro Oliveira
> 
>
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