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CHAPTER 22

Transport Interface

22-14 Using the Transport Interface

for the item. This allows the transport an opportunity to add its own slots to the

item frame.

Most transports will want to add a

fromRef slot to the item frame. This slot must

contain a name reference that identiﬁes the sender. This information is usually

extracted from the sender’s current owner card, or persona. You shouldn’t just use

the value of

GetUserConfig('currentPersona) because it is simply an alias

to a names ﬁle entry. Instead, construct a name reference from this value. For example:

persona := GetUserConfig('currentPersona);

dataDef := GetDataDefs(addressingClass);

fromRef := dataDef:MakeNameRef(persona,addressingClass);

Most transports will want to extract and send only the needed information from the

fromRef name reference. For example, an e-mail transport would typically just

extract the sender name and e-mail address from the name reference and send them

as strings. One method of name reference data deﬁnitions that you can use to

extract useful information from a name card includes

GetRoutingInfo. Here is

an example of using this method:

// extract just routing info using GetRoutingInfo

routeInfo:= datadef:GetRoutingInfo(fromRef);

// returns an array like this:

[{name: "Chris Smith", email: "[email protected]"}]

The GetRoutingInfo method returns an array of at least one frame that has at

least a

name slot containing a string. Depending on the addressingClass slot

passed to the

GetDataDefs function, the returned frame also contains other

information particular to the type of address used for the transport. In the example

above, the frame also contains an

email slot with an e-mail address.

If you want to add other slots to the

fromRef frame, you can either deﬁne your

own name reference data deﬁnition and override the method

GetItemRoutingFrame (called by GetRoutingInfo), or add the slots you

want to the

fromRef frame by extracting them from the original name reference

with the

Get method. For example:

// use Get to extract info from certain slots

fromRef.myInfo := dataDef:Get(fromRef,'myInfo,nil);

Note that a sender may have multiple e-mail addresses and the transport should set

the e-mail address in the

fromRef frame to the one that is appropriate to itself. For

example, for an internet e-mail transport, you would typically set the

fromRef

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