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get_info_json() was added some years ago with the goal to help desktop getting information about a a chat. i came over this function when working on #3520, i thought, that may be a nice function, just add a field, no new api, done. however, looking at the code, drawbacks of get_info_json() are, that it does no just write the internal chat info to json - but also do quite some more expensive things that result in several db calls. so, if we would have added the "mailing list" address here, reading it would result in quite some overhead, therefore i decided against it. having a closer look, the function seems unmaintained and also incomplete, eg. pinning is missing. diving deeper, it looks as if the function is mostly unused, i could not find any reference to it even on desktop. there is only one call to it with the bit misleading name `getSummary()` - idk, if that is used. if it turns out, the function is not used, i suggest to remove it: - desktop goes for a much broader json-rpc - in general, i like the idea of getting a structure retuned like that, that may be also useful for ios/android, and json is alread in use meanwhile, but i would prefer not to mix returning already loaded structure fields and things that require database access, this is a waste of resources most times.
Delta Chat Rust
Deltachat-core written in Rust
Installing Rust and Cargo
To download and install the official compiler for the Rust programming language, and the Cargo package manager, run the command in your user environment:
$ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
On Windows, you may need to also install Perl to be able to compile deltachat-core.
Using the CLI client
Compile and run Delta Chat Core command line utility, using cargo:
$ RUST_LOG=repl=info cargo run --example repl --features repl -- ~/deltachat-db
where ~/deltachat-db is the database file. Delta Chat will create it if it does not exist.
Configure your account (if not already configured):
Delta Chat Core is awaiting your commands.
> set addr your@email.org
> set mail_pw yourpassword
> configure
Connect to your mail server (if already configured):
> connect
Create a contact:
> addcontact yourfriends@email.org
Command executed successfully.
List contacts:
> listcontacts
Contact#10: <name unset> <yourfriends@email.org>
Contact#1: Me √√ <your@email.org>
Create a chat with your friend and send a message:
> createchat 10
Single#10 created successfully.
> chat 10
Single#10: yourfriends@email.org [yourfriends@email.org]
> send hi
Message sent.
If yourfriend@email.org uses DeltaChat, but does not receive message just
sent, it is advisable to check Spam folder. It is known that at least
gmx.com treat such test messages as spam, unless told otherwise with web
interface.
List messages when inside a chat:
> chat
For more commands type:
> help
Installing libdeltachat system wide
$ git clone https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust.git
$ cd deltachat-core-rust
$ cmake -B build . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
$ cmake --build build
$ sudo cmake --install build
Development
# run tests
$ cargo test --all
# build c-ffi
$ cargo build -p deltachat_ffi --release
Debugging environment variables
-
DCC_MIME_DEBUG: if set outgoing and incoming message will be printed -
RUST_LOG=repl=info,async_imap=trace,async_smtp=trace: enable IMAP and SMTP tracing in addition to info messages.
Expensive tests
Some tests are expensive and marked with #[ignore], to run these
use the --ignored argument to the test binary (not to cargo itself):
$ cargo test -- --ignored
Features
vendored: When using Openssl for TLS, this bundles a vendored version.nightly: Enable nightly only performance and security related features.
Language bindings and frontend projects
Language bindings are available for:
- C [📂 source | 📚 docs]
- Node.js [📂 source | 📦 npm | 📚 docs]
- Python [📂 source | 📦 pypi | 📚 docs]
- Go [📂 source]
- Free Pascal [📂 source]
- Java and Swift (contained in the Android/iOS repos)
The following "frontend" projects make use of the Rust-library or its language bindings: