Le Lørdag 30 mai 2009, roide a écrit : > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Olivier Goffart <ogoff...@kde.org> wrote: > > Le Lørdag 30 mai 2009, roide a écrit : > > > Hi,In this summer of code, i m working on the project, KDE-Conversation > > > logging framework. > > > A part of the project is to Modify the history plugin of Kopete such > > > > that > > > > > it saves its chat in Akonadi. > > > > > > In the process of modification, we decided that it is a good idea to > > > replace the QDomDocument with the History object, that represents a > > > chatLog. While trying to understand the code of the function given > > > below,(as is uses QDomNode, and Element everywhere), i though it would > > > be > > > > a > > > > > good idea, to get mylogic clear, about the algorithm that is used in > > > this function. > > > > > > After spending a lot of time, in understanding this function, > > > The algorithm i have understood here is that, > > > The function has to return a number of lines of chat of a particular > > > contact. > > > IF the contact is given then just read the history and return it(easy > > > > part) > > > > > if the contact is not given, and the metacontact has more than one > > > > contact. > > > > > merge the history(confusing here), > > > How merging works is. if there are more than one contact, Find out the > > > Contact which has the chat with smallest/largest date (depends on the > > > chronological order). Note the date. Then find out another contact > > > Which has a message with date just below or above the first chosen > > > contact. Now return the list of chat messages that lie between these > > > two dates.. > > > > > > Have i understood the logic correctly or have i missed something here ? > > > > You understood The logic. > > (I know the comment in the code are not all proper English, but I wasn't > > speaking English well at the tie :-)) > > > > If you have severals contact in the same metacontact, and you want the > > hostory > > for the metaconcact, we want to merge the history that are in different > > file > > inside one "stream" and all the message has to be sorted. > > > > The individual stream are already sorted, it is now just a matter of > > merging > > them. > > > > Do you understand now? > > Yes, i got it. :) > So basically, the list of messages it will return is, which contains > messages from chatfiles of different contacts(belonging to same > metacontact), but are sorted with respect to timestamp. > right?
Yes, and it returns the number of asked message. And it is statefull, which means that the next call to the function will give the N next message
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