Re: [cl-irc-devel] Feedback from a novice

On 7/15/05, Ed Symanzik zik@msu.edu wrote:

Btw, I was surprized to find that the read-message method doesn't just read a string, parse it, and return a message; it also dispatches events.

I struggled with this aspect of cl-irc as well. I wanted a way to handle arbitrary messages in one place without needing to define two dozen hooks, and settled on the following solution:

1) Define no hooks. 2) Define a subclass of connection for your app with its own method on read-message, as follows:

(defclass weird-connection (connection) ())

(defmethod read-message ((connection weird-connection)) (let ((message (call-next-method))) ;; ** Do something with the message here ** message))