Add/View Server View Server Intent Request

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I am developing an app for Bytesized Hosting and it would be really handy to be 
able to be able to include a button in the app which will automatically 
configure Transdroid with the settings for the server in question, and another 
which will open Transdroid with that server showing.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by darthc...@googlemail.com on 28 Apr 2011 at 5:25

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There are currently no intents to add server settings, no. I am happy to add 
this. You can use intents already to open Transdroid but you'll need to know 
the (internal) ID of the server. I bet you'd rather give the server name 
(although that's not unique strictly speaking)?

Original comment by erickok@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2011 at 8:45

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Thanks for the quick response!

I couldn't (and still can't) find any documentation showing how to open 
Transdroid with an ID. However, opening transdroid with the server name and 
port rather than ID is necessary because I won't be able to store the internal 
ID anywhere due to the way I am handling communication between the Bytesized 
API and the App.

Note that for the intent to add server settings, I will be able to provide all 
the settings needed for the server, from the bytesized API as parameters to the 
intent.

Original comment by darthc...@googlemail.com on 29 Apr 2011 at 1:17

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There's no documentation on opening with some ID (since there is no way to 
determine the right ID anyway as of yet).

Probably best is to have two intents. To add a server:

Intent i = new Intent("org.transdroid.control.ADD_SERVER");
// Mandatory
i.putExtra("NAME", "Some custom name");
i.putExtra("TYPE", "daemon_transmission"); // Code of the torrent client type; 
see 
http://code.google.com/p/transdroid/source/browse/trunk/res/values/arrays.xml
i.putExtra("ADDRESS", "192.168.1.1"); // Or www.someaddress.com
i.putExtra("PORT", "0000"); // Port number
// Optional
i.putExtra("AUTH", "true"); // "true" or "false"
i.putExtra("USER", "username");
i.putExtra("PASS", "password"); // Plain text password
i.putExtra("FOLDER", "/path/to/folder"); // Some torrent clients have a 
(sometimes optional) folder
i.putExtra("SSL", "false"); // "true" or "false"
i.putExtra("SSL_ACCEPTALL", "true"); // "true" or "false", whether to accept 
all certificates
i.putExtra("SSL_CERT", "somekey"); // Raw SSL certificate key
i.putExtra("OS", "type_linux"); // Code of the OS type; see 
http://code.google.com/p/transdroid/source/browse/trunk/res/values/arrays.xml
i.putExtra("DOWNLOADDIR", "/path/to/download/dir");
i.putExtra("FTPURL", "ftp://user@address/path/to/downloads");
i.putExtra("ALARMFINISHED", "true");
i.putExtra("ALARMNEW", "false");
startActivity(i);

This would start the 'add server' preferences screen with all the above 
specified settings filled in (and defaults for the omitted settings).

Then start Transdroid with:

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, 
Uri.parse("transdroid://username@address:port")));

This will start Transdroid and shows the first server that matches the address, 
port and username (or at least those specified in the transdroid:// url).

(You cannot start Transdroid this way without adding the server first. I might 
add that later but I'll have to think about how to specify the daemon type in 
that case; maybe via alternative schemes such as deluge:// and transmission://)

Sounds good?

Original comment by erickok@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2011 at 1:55

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Thanks! That would be absolutely brilliant, except I would suggest a few small 
changes.

For the ADD_SERVER intent, I would suggest returning a result which is whether 
the server was added or not. (This assumes that transdroid would close once the 
server was saved (or cancelled).)
Also, it may be a good idea to enforce some form of temporary encoding such as 
base64 on the password field, so it isn't passed via plain text.

For the ACTION_VIEW intent (if it is possible - I don't know), I would suggest 
returning a result which is whether a server was found.

This would enable the following pseudocode to work

try {
    if (!runTransdroid(serverdetails)) {
        if (addServer(serverdetails)) {
            if (!runTransdroid(serverdetails)) {
                showMessage("Could not run transdroid");
            }
        }
        else {
            showMessage("Could not add server details");
        }
    }
}
catch (ActivityNotFoundException) {
    showMessage("Please install Transdroid to use this feature");
}

One problem with the URI transdroid://username@address:port however is that 
deluge doesn't accept usernames. How would this be handled?

Original comment by darthc...@googlemail.com on 29 Apr 2011 at 2:58

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I will make the activities return a RESULT_CANCELED or RESULT_OK accordingly. 
You can grab these by starting the activities with startAcitivyForresult(i) and 
getting the resultCode. Of course you will not get these back until the 
activity closes. In case of the server add this will be after the user confirms 
the adding of the server. In case of the normal startup (to some specific 
server) that may be near-instant (if the server could not be found) or, well, 
possibly never if the server was found. Your app logic will do something like:

private static final int ADD_SERVER = 0;
private static final int SHOW_SERVER = 0;

try {
    Intent i = new Intent("org.transdroid.control.ADD_SERVER");
    // setttings
    startActivityForResults(i, ADD_SERVER);
} catch (ActivityNotFoundException) {
    showMessage("Please install Transdroid to use this feature");
}

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    if (requestCode == ADD_SERVER) {
        if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
            startActivityForResult(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, 
                Uri.parse("transdroid://username@address:port")), SHOW_SERVER);
        } else {
            showMessage("Adding of server was cancelled");
        }
    } else if (requestCode == SHOW_SERVER) {
        if (resultCode == RESULT_CANCELLED) {
            showMessage("Server to show was not found!");
        }
    }
}

You may omit the username for Deluge servers and just use 
transdroid://address:port

Original comment by erickok@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2011 at 7:38

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Hi.
I am soon going to be working on version 2 of the app that I was going to 
include the use of this in. (Version 1 has been available from 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bytesizedhosting.api.android.d
arthcrap since June 2011).
Is there any update on the progress?
Thanks.

Original comment by darthc...@googlemail.com on 3 Sep 2012 at 5:07

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Sorry, I haven't worked on this feature yet. Do you have some deadline? As I 
have a too little time to work on it at the moment.

Original comment by erickok@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2012 at 3:56

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No. There is no deadline, as I am writing the app on a volunteer basis.

If it could be done before December 15th, that would be good, but it is not 
essential - that is when my semester at university finishes, and thus when I'll 
have some free time . I was going to work on the app in September but that 
never materialized.

I was mainly making sure the ticket hadn't been completely abandoned.

Thanks

Original comment by darthc...@googlemail.com on 1 Oct 2012 at 5:52