[sldev] Documenting secondlife: protocol scheme (Re: [Patch] Clicking on names in Chat/Group IM)

Rob Lanphier robla at lindenlab.com
Fri Feb 8 11:39:26 PST 2008


Any volunteers for documenting the secondlife: URI scheme based on this 
thread?

In poking around, this seems like the most appropriate place to put this 
(or at least link to it):
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLURL

..but of course there are many places where inbound links would be 
appropriate (such as the "Protocol" page)

Rob


On 2/7/08 12:16 PM, Zi Ree wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 06 Februar 2008 schriebst du:
>
> (sorry for strange quote formatting but HTML mail is not easy to handle)
>
>   
>> It really sounds like this belongs in the same
>> framework as some of the 'new search' features.  In other words, as has
>> already been suggested, it should be at 
>> secondlife:///app/ I know there is already
>> one for showing profiles:
>> secondlife:///app/agent/0e346d8b-4433-4d66-a6b0-fd37083abc4c/about and I
>> think it is pretty straight forward to add new ones.
>>     
>
> Thanks for clarifying, Kelly. I didn't find any documentation on these URLs so 
> I went for my own approach. But I will definitely look into making it fit 
> this scheme.
>
>   
>> The code for that one is at the top of llfloateravatarinfo.cpp in the
>> class LLAgentHandler : public LLCommandHandler.  It would make sense
>> for the IM code to be implemented similarly.  I personally think that
>> name -> uuid translation should happen outside the url scheme, that
>> to keep the interface as clean as possible there shouldn't be a
>> secondlife:///app/agent/kelly%20linden/ option.  Force the requesting code
>> to figure out the uuid 
>> first.  Just my opinion though. :)
>>     
>
> Personally, I would always prefer the UUID over the name as well. So I can try 
> to change the patch to use this. If - and I really mean *if* - I ever get 
> 1.19.0 to build ... :/ It seems you have to re-learn the building process 
> with each new version of the viewer. There's always something else breaking 
> at the linking stage :(
>
>   
>>  - Kelly
>>     
>
> Zi
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