shortcut to disable chat service ?

[fanartie]

Hi

I would like to disable chat service to avoid my guest meeting to each other.

I understand there is not the feature to disable it for now, so I would like to have a shortcut to stop chat going.

Here are my quick alternative ideas… I will be appreciate if you could help any…

1. I am able to trigger an api to clear out the chat log every 10 minutes etc… , if you can provide me the api spec (I cannot find from your documentation)

2. I am able to run a java routine to clear out chat log from db, if you could provide me the function call

3. to make chat-db readonly, so new chat will not be saved.

4. or to disallow certain api communication to stop my client submit new chat

Please advise

Thanks

Arthur Fan

[BKKKPewsey]

One slightly "klunky" workaround is to disable "show chat messages" in settings personal for the users who you do not want to access chat.
However this means you have to disable them from changing their settings otherwise they can turn the option back on.
So create a user with allowed to change settings ticked - then log on as that user - untick show chat messages - save.
Then via admin a/c untick allow change to settings for that user.
It works but .........

[hakko]

Do you want to disable it completely? You could alter the file "right.jsp" (no re-compilation necessary then) and remove everything that's inside the c:if test="${model.showChat}" block.

[fanartie]

thanks for your answers, BUT...

my guests are using iphone iSub APP which has chat api function.... so... I have no concern about webpage.

I would like to stop chat api feature and I understand it may cause error on APP, but I don't care.

any idea ?

[hakko]

Since you mentioned building some Java code in your first post, I'd suggest altering the source code. I haven't touched that part myself but I'd guess this is a good starting point:

http://subsonic.svn.sourceforge.net/vie ... iew=markup

line 1226

I'd just remove the for loop that adds stuff to the builder list. That should give the iPhone app the impression that no new chat messages are available. (no guarantees that it'll work though, it's just a guess)

[fanartie]

thanks for your help

I believe it should work !

but I have some challenge on compiling.

may I ask a quick question here ? can I just compile single java source into class and replace the production ?

[hakko]

You can, but you'd still need to set up a working classpath to compile a single java file.

Try checking out the whole Subsonic directory structure (starting from subsonic, containing subsonic-main) and issue the command "mvn package" in folder "subsonic-main". It should build a new subsonic.war in the folder "target". You just need to install Maven if you don't have it already.

[fanartie]

I appreciate your instruction, it works great !

Thank you Hakko !

[hakko]

No problem. I've spent way too much time the last months modding Subsonic.