Changing the nickname.

[chrisduerr]

I've read through some of the sourcecode of yowsup bot couldn't find a way to change the nickname in the demos. I'm currently at the point where I have the echo client with closed to no modification and looking for an easy way to integrate the nickname which is displayed in group chats behind the number to get changed. I hope you are able to help me with that.

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[chrisduerr]

Still haven't found out anything. sendAvailableForChat(self, pushname): Seems to be legacy, right?

[tgalal]

Yeah that's how to do it in legacy code

[chrisduerr]

But I need to know how to do it in the current version. Any tips where to look?

[tgalal]

You need to send PresenceProtocolEntity inside your layer, something like:

from yowsup.layers.protocol_presence.protocolentities import PresenceProtocolEntity

entity = PresenceProtocolEntity(name = "new nickname")
self.toLower(entity.toProtocolTreeNode())

[chrisduerr]

Well if it's really that easy I feel a little stupid. :D Thank you for the help I'll look into it.

[chrisduerr]

PresenceProtocolEntity seems to be unable to get passed to a lower level because of missing tags. So this code isn't working for me. Could be that this is my fault but I am not 100% sure because other stuff like pings seem to not work for me, too.

[rusan]

It works but only for contacts. But... for iphone apps on notification screen you can see this name :).

[chrisduerr]

Shouldn't this name be displayed when you're in a group chat with that person but you didn't add them yet? And how are you getting that to work? Because for me it's always saying something about a missing Tag?!

[tgalal]

@UndeadLeech you need to post more details about that missing tag. Any logs/ stacks traces?

[chrisduerr]

This is the error I get in my cmd. For me it looks like I am doing something wrong or it shouldn't be possible to do it that way.

[tgalal]

if your layer sits above YowProtocolLayers, then you shouldn't do:

self.toLower(entity.toProtocolTreeNode())

Instead it should be just:

self.toLower(entity)

[chrisduerr]

I tried that out before and it's not returning an error. But it doesn't change the name in group chats. This is meant to change the name displayed after the number when a contact is not added, right? And if it is and should work, is there any special time I need to call it? Or should it work whenever I am logged in? Thank you for your help :) .

[addodelgrossi]

I have same question. I can invoke code, but my profile name is not changed.

        entity = PresenceProtocolEntity(name="Meu Novo Nome")
        self.toLower(entity)

Thank you for your help :) .

[chrisduerr]

So is this problem on our end or is it not 100% supporte since Yowsup 2.0?

[kyc3]

Is there a possible solution to the question of changing the nickname?

[bdbais]

I tried but nothing work,

my code:

    @ProtocolEntityCallback("success")
    def onSuccess(self, successProtocolEntity):

        entity = PresenceProtocolEntity(name = "Bot nr 1")
        self.toLower(entity)

[jroman]

This is what I did:

File: yowsup/demos/cli/layer.py Method: onSuccess()

    @ProtocolEntityCallback("success")
    def onSuccess(self, entity):
        self.connected = True
        self.output("Logged in!", "Auth", prompt = False)
        self.notifyInputThread()
###########  Start of my code
        try:
           self.profile_setStatus( MY_NICK_NAME)
        except BaseException, e:
              self.output( "CATCHED Exception while setting nick name after login: %s" % (str( e),), tag = "Exception in my code")
###########  END of my code

Hope this helps

jroman

[jlguardi]

Changing nickname works perfectly using the code of @bdbais. The main problem is what this function does. I mean: nickname is just displayed in the official client if you don't have registered the recipient. Otherwise, this app displays your local name for the recipient.

These are the logs for mobile changing nickname:

<message to="34xxxxxx@s.whatsapp.net" type="text" id="146xxxxx-15">
...
DEBUG:yowsup.layers.logger.layer:tx:
<presence name="changed">
</presence>
[connected]:DEBUG:yowsup.layers.logger.layer:rx:
<presence from="34xxxxx@s.whatsapp.net">
</presence>
...
<message to="34xxxxxx@s.whatsapp.net" type="text" id="146xxxxx-17">

yowsup client listening:

<message type="text" notify="34xxxxxx" from="34xxxxxxxx@s.whatsapp.net" id="146xxxxx-15" t="146xxxx">...
#changed nickname
<message type="text" notify="nickname changed" from="34xxxxxxxx@s.whatsapp.net" id="146xxxxx-17" t="146xxxx">...

As you can see, notify token changes correctly.