#23 closed enhancement (fixed)
Cleaner file format for user data
| Reported by: | wilmer | Owned by: | jelmer,wilmer,maurits |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.2 |
| Component: | BitlBee | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| IRC client+version: | Client-independent | Operating System: | Public server |
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Description
The current file format for the .nicks and .accounts files isn't really great, to say at the least. Especially the .nicks file isn't very extensible, one of the problems is that, if a user has one person in two contact lists (whatever the reason might be), it's pretty much impossible to predict which nick will be that person on which IM connection.
Probably it'll be some XML-like format, or maybe something else?
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Change History (14)
comment:1 Changed at 2005-11-18T09:50:03Z by
| Version: | 0.99 |
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comment:2 Changed at 2005-11-18T10:02:40Z by
comment:3 Changed at 2005-11-22T20:11:58Z by
You could try an abstraction layer for a backend ;-) Would give one the ability to extend it for MySQL, PGSQL, text files, w/e - would be espec. nice for f.ex. PHP & other web languages if you'd want to store/remote-control.
Just an idea :-) (Yeah, 0(1) is probably a bit much for just a few contacts, but it's the principle ;-))
comment:5 Changed at 2006-03-03T16:00:19Z by
| Owner: | set to Jelmer Vernooij |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:6 Changed at 2006-03-03T16:00:34Z by
| Owner: | changed from Jelmer Vernooij to jelmer,wilmer,maurits |
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| Status: | assigned → new |
comment:7 Changed at 2006-03-03T16:09:56Z by
Some more thoughts:
- Use the nickname (lowercased) as filename.
- Integrate the .accounts and .nicks files we have currently?
comment:8 Changed at 2006-03-03T16:13:25Z by
Same thoughts here. By using the lowercase nick as the filename we can also fix #8, so that's efficient. :-) And indeed, there's no need to keep those two files separated then. Also, the nicks should be per-account. Although I don't know yet what's the best way to save nick information when a user changes/replaces an account.
But the fact that BitlBee can't define separate nicks for a buddy on list A and list B is a problem for some people, so it'd be nice to fix it.
comment:9 Changed at 2006-03-03T16:18:24Z by
Ok, that makes sense. It'd also be nice to be able to import/export data files using DCC SEND, but I guess that's a different feature request (-:
comment:11 Changed at 2006-04-01T14:15:11Z by
| Milestone: | 1.1 → 1.2 |
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comment:12 Changed at 2006-06-16T06:02:09Z by
Hmm. And now I already implemented it anyway.. :-)
If anyone's interested, see http://code.bitlbee.org/hgweb/wilmer.storage and http://code.bitlbee.org/wilmer/storage-xml/
comment:13 Changed at 2006-10-15T09:47:57Z by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
And now it's in the main development branch.
comment:14 Changed at 2006-10-22T13:46:37Z by
| Milestone: | 1.2 → 1.1 |
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This should be combined with #7 in some way, probably by implementing storage backends.