Here's what I'm attempting to do: Let's assume that you are in mail and create a New blank mail message, then enter some data into it, such as body copy, etc. (in my case, the message was created through scripting bridge using the "Mail Contents of this Page" from safari... the main purpose of this process for my application.)
From my application, I want to select that message and assign it to:
MailOutgoingMessage *myMessage;
so that I can programmatically add recipients. I've tried several ways of doing this which seemed logical, but so far I haven't found the right combination, and the header file doesn't seem to be very clear to me (I'm new to scripting bridge.)
My initial thought was to try this:
mailMessage = [[mail outgoingMessages] lastObject];
Which should grab the last outgoing message created. It seems to work in that I am able to add recipients to mailMessage (though there have been a few times that I received unexpected results when multiple outgoing messages exist, such as adding the recipients to the wrong message) but attempting to log the subject line of the message:
NSLog(#"Subject = %#",[mailMessage subject]);
always returns NULL even though there is a subject clearly viewable in the subject field of the message. NULL is returned for any other parameter as well.
I'm gathering it must be a problem with my assignment to mailMessage above, because the only time I receive a NULL for message properties (or receive unexpected results) is if I try to point mailMessage to an existing outgoing message. If I create the mail message with scripting bridge, then I can retrieve all of the properties correctly.
Does anyone understand the hierarchy of the Mail scripting enough to tell me why I am getting NULLs for the parameters using the above assignment for mailMessage? What would the simplest way be go grab my message so that I can add recipients and later call the:
[myMessage send];
method? Any insight would be helpful. I've spent a week going through the mail.h header file and am quite literally at a loss as to what else to try at this point.
There's no way to (send, get or set the properties of the outgoing message) that the user or Safari has created.
It's a bug (it stopped working since Mac OS X 10.4), or some privacy/security considerations.
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I have made a discord bot that has the saves the id of a specific msg on a JSON file and when someone reacts to the msg he sends a message back.
My problem is when I do something which is going to turn the bot off for a period of time (restart, update, change host and more), the bot "forgets" all the messages that were made before he was activated again.
Is there a way to make the bot remember all the messages that happened before he was turned off?
(I tried channel.history loop and the bot did find his previous made message (I tested if the id is the same)
but after I tried to react to the message again, the bot still didn't recognize that a reaction has been made because the message was made before he was turned on.
side note:
There is a work around you can do that instead of trying to remember the message id, you need to remember the channel id that the msg has been sent in as well.
So after you have found your previous message, you can delete it and make a new message.
The thing is, I wanna know if there is a rather easier way to do it or if there is a way to "remember" previous messages.
So what I would do is I would save the messages into an SQL database and on start up recover all the messages.
Like so:
# Start up (run this code first)
try:
with open(path, "x") as file: pass
except: pass
global conn, c
conn = sqlite3.connect(path)
c = conn.cursor()
c.execute("""CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Messages (
messages string NOT NULL
)""")
# Gets message history
c.execute("SELECT * FROM Messages")
history = c.fetchall()
This will not work unless you save the messages when you receive them, so add these lines once you receive a message you want to be able to get later
# Saves message
c.execute("INSERT INTO messages VALUES (?)", (message,))
conn.commit()
I'm using the github.com/hypebeast/go-osc/osc package to send OSC messages to an OSC server. For this I'm using OSCulator so that I can route the data as MIDI to Abelton Live.
The problem I'm having is I can not find any information on message formatting for things like note on, note off, duration etc. I found a guide on the OSCulator website that's a little helpful, but it doesn't go into much detail on messaging: http://s3.amazonaws.com/osculator/doc/OSCulator+2.12+Manual.pdf
For example, the following function works just fine, but I have no idea what the message is really doing:
func note(pitch float32 , velocity float32) {
// TODO: Pass client into function. Find out it's type.
client := osc.NewClient("localhost", 8765)
noteMsg := osc.NewMessage("/4/toggle2")
client.Send(noteMsg)
msg := osc.NewMessage("/4/xy")
msg.Append(pitch)
msg.Append(velocity)
client.Send(msg)
}
I mean, what purpose does the 4 play in this, and what is xy? Also, what other messages are available apart from toggle2? I thought there would be some sort of documentation online that has all the different types of messages available for MIDI type applications.
Your question seems to be more related to OSC itself.
OSC works like this:
You send a message to a server. A message is composed by an adress and some values.
In this case, /4/xy is the address. The 4 and the slashes you define what will be. When you receive it on the other side you will know what you want to receive, which means the address you're sending. So you will configure the server or the receiver to do something when it receives a message from a specific adress.
In the same way, you are appending values to the message. The quantity of values you already know, so you just have to do what you want with them when you receive.
Basically, if you decide to have a keyboard sending notes, you would use something like /keyboard/note as adress and send one value at a time, so you would read this value and do something with it.
I am building an integration between Salesforce and Twilio that sends/receives SMS using TwilioForce REST API. The main issue is getting around the 10-call API limit from Salesforce, as well as the prohibition on HTTP call outs from a trigger.
I am basing the design on Dan Appleman's Asynchronous Request processes, but in either Batch mode or RequestAsync(), ASync(), Sync(), repeat... I'm still hitting the limits.
I'd like to know how other developers have done this successfully; the integrations have been there for a while, but the examples are few and far between.
Are you sending unique messages for each record that has been updated? If not, then why not send one message to multiple recipients to save on your API limits?
Unfortunately, if you do actually need to send more than 10 unique messages there is no way to send messages in bulk with the Twilio API, you could instead write a simple application that runs on Heroku or some other application platform that you can call out to that will handle the SMS functionality for you.
I have it working now using the following structure (I apologize for the formatting - it's mostly pseudocode):
ASyncRequest object:
AsyncType (picklist: 'SMS to Twilio' is it for now),
Params (long text area: comma-separated list of Ids)
Message object:
To (phone), From (phone), Message (text), Sent (boolean), smsId (string), Error (text)
Message trigger: passes trigger details to CreateAsyncRequests() method.
CreateAsyncRequests: evaluate each new/updated Message__c; if Sent == false for any messages, we create an AsyncRequest, type=SMS to Twilio, Params += ',' + message.Id.
// Create a list to be inserted after all the Messages have been processed
List requests = new List();
Once we reach 5 message.Ids in a single AsyncRequest.Params list, add it to requests.
If all the messages have been processed and there's a request with < 5 Ids in Params, add it to requests as well.
If requests.size() > 0 {
insert requests;
AsyncProcessor.StartBatch();
}
AsyncProcessor implements .Batchable and .AllowsCallouts, and queries ASyncRequest__c for any requests that need to be processed, which in this case will be our Messages list.
The execute() method takes the list of ASyncRequests, splits each Params value into its component Message Ids, and then queries the Message object for those particular Messages.
StartBatch() calls execute() with 1 record at a time, so that each execute() process will still contain fewer than the maximum 10 callouts.
Each Message is processed in a try/catch block that calls SendMessage(), sets Message.smsId = Twilio.smsId and sets Message.Sent = true.
If no smsId is returned, then the message was not sent, and I set a boolean bSidIsNull = true indicating that (at least) one message was not sent.
** If any message failed, no smsIds are returned EVEN FOR MESSAGES THAT WERE SUCCESSFUL **
After each batch of messages is processed, I check bSidIsNull; if true, then I go back over the list of messages and put any that do not have an smsId into a map indexed by the Twilio number I'm trying to send them From.
Since I limited each ASyncRequest to 5 messages, I still have the use of a callout to retrieve all of the messages sent from that Twilio.From number for the current date, using
client.getAccount().getMessages('From' => fromNumber, 'DateSent' => currentDate)
Then I can update the Message.smsIds for all of the messages that were successful, and add an error message to Message.Error_on_Send__c for any that failed.
I'm working on a YRS 2013 project and would like to use Twilio. I already have a Twilio account set up with over $100 worth of funds on it. I am working on a project which uses an external API and finds events near a location and date. The project is written in Ruby using Sinatra (which is going to be deployed to Heroku).
I am wondering whether you guys could guide me on how to approach this scenario: a user texts to the number of my Twilio account (the message would contain the location and date data), we process the body of that sms, and send back the results to the number that asked for them. I'm not sure where to start; for example if Twilio would handle some of that task or I would just use Twilio's API and do checking for smss and returning the results. I thinking about not using a database.
Could you guide me on how to approach this task?
I need to present the project on Friday; so I'm on a tight deadline! Thanks for our help.
They have some great documentation on how to do most of this.
When you receive a text you should parse it into the format you need
Put it into your existing project and when it returns the event or events in the area you need to check how long the string is due to a constraint that twilio has of restricting messages to 160 characters or less.
Ensure that you split the message elegantly and not in the middle of an event. If you were returned "Boston Celtics Game", "The Nut Cracker Play". you want to make sure that if both events cannot be put in one message that the first message says "Boston Celtics Game, Another text coming in 1 second" Or something similar.
In order to receive a text message from a mobile device, you'll have to expose an endpoint that is reachable by Twilio. Here is an example
class ReceiveTextController < ActionController
def index
# let's pretend that we've mapped this action to
# http://localhost:3000/sms in the routes.rb file
message_body = params["Body"]
from_number = params["From"]
SMSLogger.log_text_message from_number, message_body
end
end
In this example, the index action receives a POST from Twilio. It grabs the message body, and the phone number of the sender and logs it. Retrieving the information from the Twilio POST is as simple as looking at the params hash
{
"AccountSid"=>"asdf876a87f87a6sdf876876asd8f76a8sdf595asdD",
"Body"=> body,
"ToZip"=>"94949",
"FromState"=>"MI",
"ToCity"=>"NOVATO",
"SmsSid"=>"asd8676585a78sd5f548a64sd4f64a467sg4g858",
"ToState"=>"CA",
"To"=>"5555992673",
"ToCountry"=>"US",
"FromCountry"=>"US",
"SmsMessageSid"=>"hjk87h9j8k79hj8k7h97j7k9hj8k7",
"ApiVersion"=>"2008-08-01",
"FromCity"=>"GRAND RAPIDS",
"SmsStatus"=>"received",
"From"=>"5555992673",
"FromZip"=>"49507"
}
Source
I'm new to XMPP and the xmpp4r library, so please forgive my noob question if this is obviously documented somewhere.
What's the most straightforward way, in a synchronous manner, to find out if a given JID is online? (so that I can call something like is_online?(jid) in an if statement)
My details:
I'm writing a Sinatra app that will attempt to send a message to a user when a particular url gets requested on the web server, but it should only try to send the message to the user if that user is currently online. Figuring out if a given JID is online is my problem.
Now, I know that if I connect and wait a few seconds for all the initial presence probe responses to come back to the Roster helper, then I can inspect any of those presences from my Roster and call #online? on them to get the correct value. But, I don't know when all of the presence updates have been sent, so there's a race condition there and sometimes calling #online? on a presence from my roster will return false if I just haven't received that presence probe response yet.
So, my current thinking is that the most straightforward way to find out if someone is online is to construct a new Presence message of type :probe and send that out to the JID that I'm interested in. Here's how I'm doing it right now:
#jabber is the result of Client::new
#email is the jid I'm interested in polling
def is_online?(jabber, email)
online = false
p = Presence.new
p.set_to(email)
p.set_from(jabber.jid)
p.set_type(:probe)
pres = jabber.send(p) do |returned_presence|
online = returned_presence.nil?
end
return online
end
Now, this works in cases where the user is actually online, but when the user is offline, it looks like the presence probe message that comes back is being caught by some other presence_callback handler that doesn't know what to do with it, and my is_online? function never finishes returning a value.
Can anyone help me by providing a simple example is_online? function that I can call, or point me in the right direction for how I can detect when the roster is done getting all the initial presence updates before I try checking a presence for #online?
As it turns out, there's not a synchronous way to ask for a JID presence. You've just got to ask for what you want, then wait for your response handler to fire when the response arrives.