TextChannel

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Description:

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Properties:

• public uint delivery_reporting_support { get; }
  A DeliveryReportingSupportFlags indicating features supported by this channel.
• public bool is_sms_channel { get; }
  true if messages sent and received on this channel are transmitted via SMS.
• public uint message_part_support_flags { get; }
  A MessagePartSupportFlags indicating the level of support for message parts on this channel.
• public bool sms_flash { get; }
  true if this channel is exclusively for receiving class 0 SMSes (and no SMSes can be sent using send_message_async on this channel).
• public string[] supported_content_types { get; }
  A GStrv containing the MIME types supported by this channel, with more preferred MIME types appearing earlier in the array.

Static methods:

• public static Quark get_feature_quark_chat_states ()
• public static Quark get_feature_quark_incoming_messages ()
• public static Quark get_feature_quark_sms ()

Creation methods:

• public TextChannel (Connection conn, string object_path, HashTable<string,Value?> immutable_properties) throws Error
  Convenient function to create a new TextChannel

Methods:

• public async bool ack_all_pending_messages_async () throws Error
  Acknowledge all the pending messages.
• public async bool ack_message_async (Message message) throws Error
  Acknowledge message.
• public async bool ack_messages_async (List<SignalledMessage> messages) throws Error
  Acknowledge all the messages in messages.
• public List<SignalledMessage> dup_pending_messages ()
  Return a newly allocated list of unacknowledged SignalledMessage objects.
• public ChannelChatState get_chat_state (Contact contact)
  Return the chat state for the given contact.
• public DeliveryReportingSupportFlags get_delivery_reporting_support ()
  Return the delivery_reporting_support property
• public MessagePartSupportFlags get_message_part_support_flags ()
  Return the message_part_support_flags property
• public unowned Array<ChannelTextMessageType> get_message_types ()
  Return the TpTextChannel:message-typess property
• public List<unowned SignalledMessage> get_pending_messages ()
  Return a newly allocated list of unacknowledged SignalledMessage objects.
• public bool get_sms_flash ()
  Return the sms_flash property
• public async bool get_sms_length_async (Message message, out uint chunks_required, out int remaining_characters, out int estimated_cost) throws Error
  Starts an async call to get the number of 140 octet chunks required to send a message via SMS on self, as well as the number of remaining characters available in the final chunk and, if possible, an estimate of the cost.
• public unowned string[] get_supported_content_types ()
  Return the supported_content_types property
• public async bool send_message_async (Message message, MessageSendingFlags flags, out string token) throws Error
  Submit a message to the server for sending.
• public async bool set_chat_state_async (ChannelChatState state) throws Error
  Set the local state on channel this to state.
• public bool supports_message_type (ChannelTextMessageType message_type)
  Check if message of type message_type can be sent on this channel.

Signals:

• public signal void contact_chat_state_changed (Contact contact, uint state)
  Emitted when a contact's chat state changes after prepare_async has finished preparing features TP_TEXT_CHANNEL_FEATURE_CHAT_STATES, TP_CHANNEL_FEATURE_GROUP and TP_CHANNEL_FEATURE_CONTACTS.
• public signal void message_received (SignalledMessage message)
  The message_received signal is emitted when a new message has been received on self.
• public signal void message_sent (SignalledMessage message, uint flags, string token)
  The message_sent signal is emitted when message has been submitted for sending.
• public signal void pending_message_removed (SignalledMessage message)
  The pending_message_removed signal is emitted when message has been acked and so removed from the pending messages list.

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