Issue 8 - joscar - ICQ nicknames/display names of the user logged in as well as the buddy nicknames

Issue 8:	ICQ nicknames/display names of the user logged in as well as the buddy nicknames	‹ Prev 5 of 6 Next ›
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Status:	New
Owner:	----
Type-Defect
Priority-Medium

Reported by satheeshka, Jan 26, 2008

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Login to your icq account and wait until your buddies are loaded
2. check your account name and your buddy display names
3. all of them are displayed as icq numbers. None of them have 
nicknames/display names present. I know we can set a nickname for the 
buddy,but the display name should be displayed with whatever the buddy has 
set for himself/herself

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Display names that the users have set for themselves. Currently we see icq 
numbers

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest svn code. This is independent of the OS used

Please provide any additional information below.

Comment 1 by jadestorm, Jan 26, 2008

Regarding this --- nothing actually "arrives" immediately to tell you this
information.  If you watch the protocol for ICQ (and no, I don't expect you to have
done that  ;D  ), you'll see that a real ICQ client actually looks up this
information when you add someone.  (note that you generally have to "search" for your
contacts)  It keeps track of the nickname and adds it to your SSI buddy roster along
with the item itself.

So how does one that doesn't operate in that mode handle it?  A simple MetaShortInfo
request.  That said, that doesn't appear to be working right for me right now, so
I've been aiming to get that working correctly.  ;)  Just wanted to let you know the
way it generally works and why it's the way it is right now.

Comment 2 by satheeshka, Jan 27, 2008

Thank You so much for the tip. I got it working

Comment 3 by jadestorm, Jan 28, 2008

Would you mind sharing your code?  Ironically, I'm having trouble getting it working.  ;D

Comment 4 by satheeshka, Jan 29, 2008

sure!

            int requestId = nextSeqId();
            int buddyUIN = Integer.parseInt(buddy.getScreenName());
            int ownerUIN = Integer.parseInt(owner.getScreenName());
            MetaShortInfoRequest req = new MetaShortInfoRequest(ownerUIN,requestId, 
buddyUIN);
            request(req,new SnacRequestAdapter(){
                public void handleResponse(SnacResponseEvent e) {
                    MetaShortInfoCmd cmd = (MetaShortInfoCmd)
snacCmdFactory.genSnacCommand(e.getSnacPacket());
                    fireMetaShortDataReceived(cmd,getScreenName());
                }
            });

Comment 5 by arjenw, Nov 05, 2008

Hi,

This does not work for me... the AimConnection's sendSnac(SnacCommand) method does a
mutable service lookup for 0x0015 (FAMILY_ICQ) and finds no implementations and can
thus not send the request...

Any ideas?