Integration of external chat networks.

[octo]

Hi,

the last day or two I've been playing around with the idea of adding some gateway functionality to the chat system. By that I mean to add functionality to the server to log into chat networks (like a Jabber server) on account of users joining the game and relaying messages. It'd be awesome to be able to chat a little with people not actually in the game as well as saying hello to people I know from the game without actually having to start it myself.

I think intercepting messages sent by people logged into MaNGOS and send them to somewhere else is pretty straight forward. It's the other way around I currently can't figure out. If I understand Player::BuildPlayerChat correctly, only an ID is transmitted, not a string representing the user name. Is that so? Language and GIUD are transferred twice, does that maybe leave some room to transmit yet-untranslated names or something like that, that can be used for the purpose of transmitting a not really existing user name?

WorldObject::BuildMonsterChat on the other hand transfers a mob's name (apparently along it's ID). I have absolutely no idea how that would look like in-game. Can one reply to that? (How) Can one distinguish between a monster-whisper and a player-whisper? Especially interesting: Can one reply to it?

Regards,

-octo

[ChanF07]

There was a project called mangchat that implemented IRC chat channels to sync with the in game chat. The project page is still up at http://mangchat.visualdreams-its.com/index.php/Main_Page ,but I don't think the project is active anymore. However the source is still available on the filebeam mirrors on that page so you could take a look how the send/recieve mechanism works. I vaguely remember that there was whisper from irc to game function somewhere in there, but I may be wrong.

Monster whispers are noticeable in that they cannot be replied to and is distinguishable in that the npc name is used instead. An example of a mob whisper http://www.wowwiki.com/Khadgar%27s_Servant .

[octo]

There was a project called mangchat that implemented IRC chat channels to sync with the in game chat.

Thanks for the hint, I'll take a look. From a first glance, this looks mighty simple.

Monster whispers are noticeable in that they cannot be replied to and is distinguishable in that the npc name is used instead.

I thought so I'll try with the CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM type that MangChat appears to use.

Regards,

-octo

[ghoti]

I would be interested in this

On a side note, do the old core mod's (mangchat, something similar?) still work at all?