D7 version of Messaging [#936674]

The Drupal 7 upgrade is a work in progress atm. The development has been moved to Github, http://github.com/josereyero/messaging. See also http://github.com/josereyero/notifications.

There's already a working version that sends out mails and web messages (Other sending methods will need to wait for the other 3rd party modules to be upgraded). I will be posting here notes about the more important changes so this will be an upgrade log. The main changes so far:

* Messages are now Entities, though there's a Message object wrapper for them, thus entity_load functions will actually retrieve Messaging objects.
* The complex templating system has been taken out of Messaging. Message texts are now arrays ready for drupal_render(). Sending methods can implement their own rendering to produce plain text instead of HTML.
* We are using now Drupal Queue to queue messages. More ellaborated high performance queueing will be added on top of that (I.e. for sending out many emails or XMPP messages using the same connection)

There's no upgrade path yet from 6.x versions. And possibly we won't need any besides some settings upgrades. Thus the upgrade will be something like 'flush your queued messages first, then install the new version'.

Comments

Comment #1

Taxoman commented 26 October 2010 at 11:40

There's already a working version that sends out mails and web messages (Other sending methods will need to wait for the other 3rd party modules to be upgraded).

I just tried enabling this module and the Notifications module for D7, but the required sub-module "Text Templates" is blocked with the following message on the modules page:

"This version is not compatible with Drupal 7.x and should be replaced."

Text Templates is required by both the main Notifications module and most of its sub modules, such as the Taxonomy notifications module and the Content Notifications module.

While the main Messaging module may be enabled, it seems that the requirements of the Notifications module(s) in practise means that this module is not in a working state at the moment?
(Cannot seem to establish notifications without a functional version of the Text Templates module..?)