Support Multiple Networks

[Harry Reeder]

Possel should support multiple chat networks. Basing examples here from the current wiki page specifying the Client-Server protocol here I've drawn up some examples of what this may look like.

Client Command to Connect to a Chat Network

{
    "command": "diff",
    "networks": {
        "_add": [{
            "name": "imaginarynet",
            "type": "irc",
            "server": "irc.imaginarynet.uk",
            "port": 6667,
            "ssl": false,
            "nick": "tbrb",
            "nick_alt": "tbrb`",
            "realname": "Harry Reeder",
            "username": false,
            "password": false
        }]
    }
}

The reason behind "type":"irc" is to allow for modularisation, so in future if other chat network types (such as xmpp) want to be supported, that doesn't require a re-write from the ground up to support.

Client Command to Join Channel

{
    "command": "diff",
    "channels": {
        "_add": [{
            "name": "#possel",
            "network": "imaginarynet"
        }]
    }
}

Other proposed commands would be modified like so, adding "network": "networkname" where required.

[Harry Reeder]

Alternatively the list of channels would be an attribute of their respective network, changing the client command to join channel to something more like this:

{
    "command": "diff",
    "networks": {
        "imaginarynet": {
            "channels": {
                "_add": [{ "name": "#possel" }]
            }
        }
    }
}

[Kit Barnes]

Basic protocol ideas have changed significantly enough that this is no longer relevant