Plaintext Export does not contain MMS group messages

[joeposner]

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I'm using your fork of Signal and have successfully imported a backup database from Signal; old group chant messages appear as expected in that import.

However, when I use the Plaintext export, these MMS messages do not appear to be in the exported file. A grep of the SignalPlaintextBackup.xml file for Signals standard group Id returns no values. Ex:

grep nal_mms_group SignalPlaintextBackup.xml

Likewise, greps in that file for mms or text from a group chat produces no results.

And, as expected with the results of those greps, an import with SMS Backup and Restore, the group chats do not appear

[johanw666]

Yes, media messages are not saved in the xml export. Adding the text part of those to the export is on my planning.

[joeposner]

Would you consider accepting a pull request from me to add this feature?

[johanw666]

Certainly, it would safe me some work. I have already made provisions in the code for media message export but it does not work yet and is behind an if (false). It is in PlaintextBackupExporter.java in exportPlaintext() and in some changes in mmsDatabase.java.