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Social network plugin for telepathy framework Kirill Ivashov, Vyacheslav Dimitrov, Kirill Kulakov Petrozavodsk State University Department of Computer Science 9 th FRUCT conference, April 2629, Petrozavodsk, Russia Kirill Ivashov Social

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Social network plugin for telepathy framework

Kirill Ivashov, Vyacheslav Dimitrov, Kirill Kulakov

Petrozavodsk State University Department of Computer Science

9th FRUCT conference, April 26–29, Petrozavodsk, Russia

Kirill Ivashov Social network plugin for telepathy framework FRUCT 26–29.04.2011 1 / 14

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Table of Contents

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Telepathy

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Social network plugin

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Links

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Future plans

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Telepathy

Telepathy — Intro

Telepathy — is modular messaging framework, that provides functions for instant messaging applications. Modularity — each protocol is represented by one module. Separate processeses — each module is represented by one process. Language bindings

◮ GObject ◮ C++ (Qt) ◮ Python ◮ Any language that support D-Bus Kirill Ivashov Social network plugin for telepathy framework FRUCT 26–29.04.2011 3 / 14

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Telepathy

Telepathy — Clients

There are several applications, that supports Telepathy Framework. Empathy — Default messaging program for GNOME desktop environment. Maemo IM Client — Default messaging program for Maemo OS MeeGo Client — Default client for Handset version of MeeGo

  • peration system. MeeGo Netbook uses Empathy.

Decibel — Obsoleted messaging framework for KDE

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Social network plugin

Project idea

MySocials project that aims to provide set of applications to access to social networks

◮ VKontakte ◮ Facebook ◮ Flickr ◮ Mail.ru

Common MySocials API.

◮ Messages ◮ Friends ◮ Photos Kirill Ivashov Social network plugin for telepathy framework FRUCT 26–29.04.2011 5 / 14

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Social network plugin

Library access approach

Advantages:

  • Universality. Not all social networks supports proactive API.

Information can be retrieved from different sources.

◮ Private messages ◮ Public messages ◮ Photo

Only required information No unnecessary information is transmitting Minimal traffic

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Social network plugin

Jabber access

Jabber Jabber access available only if it is supported by service Jabber updates information faster because of proactive approach.

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Social network plugin

Architecture

Connection Text Channel ContactList Channel Client AbstractBackend Vkontakte Backend Facebook Backend Settings libvk libfb

Backends responsible for communication with social networks through MySocials API Channels responsible for communication with client Settings object encapsulates storing/loading logic and can has different backends (e.g. ini-files, sqlite3) Connection is main DBus, that allows client to create channels managers, channels, receive avatars, presence informations.

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Social network plugin

Plugin features

Roster

◮ Periodic update of information ◮ Period of update is set by user

Messages

◮ Periodic update ◮ Request for new messages ◮ Plugin not downloads old messages

Avatars

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Social network plugin

Implementation

Metrics: 14 GObject classes 6700 Lines of code External tools: GLib — C Library containing a lot of useful tools. (Hash tables, Arrays, RegEx parsers are used in project) Telepathy-GLib — Wrapper around Telepathy DBus API GObject — OOP library for C MySocials — Libraries for access to social networks.

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Social network plugin

Screenshots

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Links

Links

Wiki: http://oss.fruct.org/wiki/VkTelepathy Repository: https://gitorious.org/vktelepathy MeeGo Repository: https://build.pub.meego.com/package/show? package=vktelepathy&project=home:kulakov OBS Repository: https://build.opensuse.org/package/ show?package=vktelepathy&project=home:mysocials EMail: maemo-mysocials@cs.karelia.ru

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Future plans

Future plans

Integration with MeeGo Accounts Framework

◮ Make settings interface for plugin ◮ Modify RPM spec files to support MeeGo Handset

Support for different socials networks (not only vkontakte)

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Future plans

Thanks you for you attention!

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