OperationSetBasicInstantMessaging.java

/*
 * SIP Communicator, the OpenSource Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client.
 *
 * Distributable under LGPL license.
 * See terms of license at gnu.org.
 */
package net.java.sip.communicator.service.protocol;

import net.java.sip.communicator.service.protocol.event.*;

/**
 * Provides basic functionality for sending and receiving InstantMessages.
 *
 * @author Emil Ivov
 */
public interface OperationSetBasicInstantMessaging
    extends OperationSet
{
    /**
     * Default encoding for outgoing messages.
     */
    public static final String DEFAULT_MIME_ENCODING = "UTF-8";

    /**
     * Default mime type for outgoing messages.
     */
    public static final String DEFAULT_MIME_TYPE = "text/plain";
    
    /**
     * HTML mime type for use with messages using html.
     */
    public static final String HTML_MIME_TYPE = "text/html";

    /**
     * Create a Message instance for sending arbitrary MIME-encoding content.
     * 
     * @param content content value
     * @param contentType the MIME-type for <tt>content</tt>
     * @param contentEncoding encoding used for <tt>content</tt>
     * @param subject a <tt>String</tt> subject or <tt>null</tt> for now
     *            subject.
     * @return the newly created message.
     */
    public Message createMessage(String content, String contentType,
        String contentEncoding, String subject);

    /**
     * Create a Message instance for sending a simple text messages with default
     * (text/plain) content type and encoding.
     *
     * @param messageText the string content of the message.
     * @return Message the newly created message
     */
    public Message createMessage(String messageText);

    /**
     * Sends the <tt>message</tt> to the destination indicated by the
     * <tt>to</tt> contact.
     * @param to the <tt>Contact</tt> to send <tt>message</tt> to
     * @param message the <tt>Message</tt> to send.
     * @throws java.lang.IllegalStateException if the underlying ICQ stack is
     * not registered and initialized.
     * @throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if <tt>to</tt> is not an
     * instance belonging to the underlying implementation.
     */
    public void sendInstantMessage(Contact to, Message message)
        throws IllegalStateException, IllegalArgumentException;

    /**
     * Registeres a MessageListener with this operation set so that it gets
     * notifications of successful message delivery, failure or reception of
     * incoming messages..
     *
     * @param listener the <tt>MessageListener</tt> to register.
     */
    public void addMessageListener(MessageListener listener);

    /**
     * Unregisteres <tt>listener</tt> so that it won't receive any further
     * notifications upon successful message delivery, failure or reception of
     * incoming messages..
     *
     * @param listener the <tt>MessageListener</tt> to unregister.
     */
    public void removeMessageListener(MessageListener listener);

    /**
     * Determines wheter the protocol provider (or the protocol itself) support
     * sending and receiving offline messages. Most often this method would
     * return true for protocols that support offline messages and false for
     * those that don't. It is however possible for a protocol to support these
     * messages and yet have a particular account that does not (i.e. feature
     * not enabled on the protocol server). In cases like this it is possible
     * for this method to return true even when offline messaging is not
     * supported, and then have the sendMessage method throw an
     * OperationFailedException with code - OFFLINE_MESSAGES_NOT_SUPPORTED.
     *
     * @return <tt>true</tt> if the protocol supports offline messages and
     * <tt>false</tt> otherwise.
     */
    public boolean isOfflineMessagingSupported();
    
    /**
     * Determines wheter the protocol supports the supplied content type
     *
     * @param contentType the type we want to check
     * @return <tt>true</tt> if the protocol supports it and
     * <tt>false</tt> otherwise.
     */
    public boolean isContentTypeSupported(String contentType);
}