Produce a module which act as an place holder for service providers and offers service interfaces for chat, voice and video communications.

Design

Communications module offers basic communication services using registered service providers.

the service and service provider interfaces are defined in 'Interfaces/CommunicationsServiceInterface.h' file.

Communications::InWorldChat::ParticipantInterface
Communications::InWorldChat::TextMessageInterface
Communications::InWorldChat::SessionInterface
Communications::InWorldChat::ProviderInterface

Communications::InWorldVoice::ParticipantInterface
Communications::InWorldVoice::SessionInterface
Communications::InWorldVoice::ProviderInterface

Communications::ServiceInterface

Service

Service emits a signal when in-world chat or voice session is available/unavailable. Other modules can get a pointer to a session object to observe and to control sessions.

Providers

Actual implementations of communication services are implemented by another modules. Any module can implement one ore more communication service provider interfaces and register the provider to communications service in run-time to be used by another modules.

Currently MumbleVoipModule implements Communications::InWorldVoice::ProviderInterface and RexLocigModule implements Communications::InWorldChat::ProviderInterface.

Current work

• Mumble integration
• Communication user interaction design
• Incoming tasks
• TelepathyIMModule

Open questions

• IM account and rex accounts integration
• Technology for multi user voice chat