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rrbrambley / MessageBeast-Android

A library for building Message-based apps on App.net
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Add support for Action Channels that support targeting messages in multiple channels. #14

Open rrbrambley opened 10 years ago

rrbrambley commented 10 years ago

Since message ids are unique across channels, there isn't technically a reason why a single action channel cannot be used for multiple target channels.

We could either:

  1. Not require a channel_id in the com.alwaysallthetime.action.metadata channel annotation, or
  2. Have an alternate key – channel_ids that is an array of channel ids to be used with the action channel.
rrbrambley commented 10 years ago

Still on the fence about this. Removed the notion of 'target channel' in this branch: https://github.com/rrbrambley/MessageBeast-Android/tree/enhancements/no-target-channel

I think there might be some value in keeping the 'channel_id' key in the metadata annotation because if you look at an action channel independently, it allows you to see which Channel the messages correspond to.