Evan,
I work with Keith Erskine at Padpaw. I'm looking into building an sms
plugin.
I created a simple plugin just to try out the process (I responded to the
StartNoticeSave event and made it send the message via sms using Padpaw).
It was pretty easy to do and I like the plugin concept because its
modular/clean. I know we'd definitely need some additional events to do a
full sms plugin but I'm not sure whether we can do everything we want as a
plugin.
For example, I'm currently investigating how to implement the sms "opt in"
process required by the carriers. I'm not sure whether we can do that
strictly as a plugin. You have code in place to add a phone number for
text by email. It has its own confirmation process that is email/web
based. If you gave me an event that would give me the phone number, I could
us it to initiate our sms opt in process. That would work but I think,
ideally, we would replace the existing process with an sms/phone based
confirmation. Otherwise, it might be awkward/confusing.
I also have a question regarding the addition of database tables. It looks
like objects that inherit from Memcached_Dataobject match the database
tables and inherit the database access from the base class. If we were to
add a database table, could we create a corresponding object derived from
Memcached_Dataobject and leverage that code?
I'd appreciate any suggestions you have that might help.
Alison
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Prodromou" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:01 PM
Subject: [Laconica-dev] Pluginization
I'd like to set a goal for the 0.9.x release (July, probably) that all
optional functionality (XMPP, Twitter, Facebook, SMS) be built as plugins.
Is that reasonable? I think we'll have to develop new events to make it
work (including some events for ooffline queues), and some offline scripts
(like the XMPP receiving script) would have to be outside of plugins, but
otherwise I think it would be the right thing to do.
-Evan
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