The rationale is explained in https://planet.kde.org/friedrich-kossebau-2023-06-28-include-also-moc-files-of-headers/
In case of KDEConnect, it impressively speeds up compilation. Before it
took 390 seconds on a clean build and with this change it took 330 seconds.
This is due to the mocs_compilation having to include the header files
and thus all their headers. Due to the lots of small plugins we have,
this means that the same headers must be compiled plenty of times.
When we include the moc files directly in the C++ file, they are already
available.
## Summary
This patch adds an interface to return only a specified window of messages, making loading the conversations history smooth, fast, and enjoyable.
The current implementation of the conversation interface loads all messages every time the conversation is requested. This is might be painfully slow to load in case the conversation is large or if there are a lot of MMS/RCS messages in the conversation (since those are wildly slower to load than SMS)
Requires https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdeconnect-android/merge_requests/122 to enable Android functionality
## Test Plan
- With new Android app and old Desktop app:
- The Android app will notice the missing fields and query for all messages as before.
- With old Android app and new Desktop app:
- The desktop will send fields for the new interface which will not be read and all messages will be returned.
- With new Android app and new Desktop app:
- The new interface is used and returns only a certain number of messages at a time.
## Summary
Upgrade the SMS App to handle multitarget addresses in the "addresses" field of a message and drop usage of the "address" field
Also note that this has all the commits from https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdeconnect-kde/merge_requests/97, but I will rebase those away once that patch is landed
Bonus: Image composition for multitarget conversations
## Test Plan
- Apply Android-side patch https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdeconnect-android/merge_requests/80
- Launch SMS App
- Notice that you can see all the recipients of multitarget messages. (Replying still not supported, but might get implemented as part of fixing replying to single-target messages)
Summary: This patch fixes T10184 and stops the SMS app from crashing when a conversation is selected but no devices are connected. It also allows the SMS app to access the cached messages in the ConversationsDbusInterface so the app is still slightly useful even when the device is disconnected.
Test Plan:
- Open sms app
- Open a few conversations
- Disconnect phone (Force close app?)
- Re-open a conversation which was previously opened
- Verify that the messages appear. It is possible to scroll up to view any older cached messages too!
- Open a conversation which was not opened previously
- Verify that a single messages is shown (since this was the only one in cache, from populating the list of all conversations)
- Verify that attempting to scroll this conversation does nothing, but also does not crash the app
Note: Opening the app with no phone connected will cause it to lose its handle on the deviceId, so it can't spawn a new Dbus interface, so it will remain blank and empty. Solving that is a project for another day.
Reviewers: #kde_connect
Reviewed By: #kde_connect
Subscribers: apol, nicolasfella, kdeconnect
Tags: #kde_connect
Maniphest Tasks: T10184
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17634
Previously, we would have a thread which was never woken. Now we wake the thread and it does its thing, even though we were not able to do anything about its request
Resolves https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400488
Summary:
The most serious change from this patch is to move the asynchronous replying to a request from the app for more messages to a newly-spawned, self-destructing thread. Within that thread, we block until the remote device replies with the requested messages.
All gotten messages are cached in the ConversationDbusInterface, so all future requests are fast and don't hit the remote device.
Test Plan: After applying this diff, the messaging app should show 10 messages every time it is opened
Reviewers: #kde_connect, nicolasfella, albertvaka
Reviewed By: #kde_connect, albertvaka
Subscribers: albertvaka, apol, nicolasfella, kdeconnect
Tags: #kde_connect
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16475
