2014-08-27 12:41 GMT+02:00 Kevin Smith <ke...@kismith.co.uk>: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Piotr Nosek > <piotr.no...@erlang-solutions.com> wrote: >
> > > Me and colleagues had a discussion on this issue and we think XEP-0313 > could use a new parameter for queries, that will tell the server to return > only N last messages for every conversation (i.e. remote JID). Example: > > This would certainly work (although whether to include it in 313 > itself is another matter), but is it the best thing to do? It's not > clear to me whether returning messages to determine if any exist is > the best, or another query type to fetch all the active JIDs in the > last X long. > Yes, of course this would also make sense but it would be a totally different kind of query (and result). And also a typical use case would be to display a 'preview' of the conversation which would then result in an additional query. Overall making the lives esp for client developers more work. But I'm not totally against the extra query approach either.
