very crude initial support to display group chat as standard direct messages.

still a lot to do: using the "from" field from group messages to display
who sent each message, options to invite, display members, change
group description, leave etc.

js/twister_directmsg.js

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ function requestDMsnippetList(dmThreadList) {
     for( var i = 0; i < followingUsers.length; i++ ) {
         followList.push({username:followingUsers[i]});
     }
+    for( var i = 0; i < groupChatAliases.length; i++ ) {
+        followList.push({username:groupChatAliases[i]});
+    }
 
     twisterRpc("getdirectmsgs", [defaultScreenName, 1, followList],
            function(req, ret) {processDMsnippet(ret, dmThreadList);}, dmThreadList,
@@ -43,6 +46,9 @@ function processDMsnippet(dmUsers, dmThreadList) {
 }
 
 function openDmConversation(dm_screenname, dmTitleName, dmConversation) {
+    if( dm_screenname.length && dm_screenname[0] === '*' )
+        getGroupChatName( dm_screenname, dmTitleName );
+    else
         getFullname( dm_screenname, dmTitleName );
     dmConversation.attr("data-dm-screen-name", dm_screenname);
 
@@ -116,7 +122,7 @@ function newDirectMsg(msg,  dm_screenname) {
         var paramsOrig = [defaultScreenName, lastPostId + 1, dm_screenname, msg]
         var paramsOpt = paramsOrig
         var copySelf = ($.Options.getDMCopySelfOpt() === 'enable')
-        if( copySelf ) {
+        if( copySelf && dm_screenname[0] !== '*' ) {
             paramsOpt = paramsOrig.concat(true)
         }
 

js/twister_formatpost.js

@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ function dmDataToSnippetItem(dmData, remoteUser) {
     dmItem.find("a.post-info-name").attr("href", $.MAL.userUrl(remoteUser));
     dmItem.find("a.dm-chat-link").attr("href", $.MAL.dmchatUrl(remoteUser));
     getAvatar( remoteUser, dmItem.find(".post-photo").find("img") );
+    if( remoteUser.length && remoteUser[0] === '*' )
+        getGroupChatName( remoteUser, dmItem.find("a.post-info-name") );
+    else
         getFullname( remoteUser, dmItem.find("a.post-info-name") );
     dmItem.find(".post-text").html(escapeHtmlEntities(dmData.text));
     dmItem.find(".post-info-time").text(timeGmtToText(dmData.time));

js/twister_io.js

@@ -296,6 +296,16 @@ function getWebpage( username, item ){
                       }, {item:item} );
 }
 
+function getGroupChatName( groupalias, item ){
+    twisterRpc("getgroupinfo", [groupalias],
+               function(args, ret) {
+                   args.item.text(ret["description"]);
+               }, {item:item},
+               function(args, ret) {
+                   args.item.text("getgroupinfo error");
+               }, {item:item});
+}
+
 // we must cache avatar results to disk to lower bandwidth on
 // other peers. dht server limits udp rate so requesting too much
 // data will only cause new requests to fail.

js/twister_newmsgs.js

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ var _lastLocalMentionId = -1;
 var PURGE_OLD_MENTIONS_TIMEOUT = 3600 * 24 * 30; // one month
 var _newMentionsUpdated = false;
 var _newDMsUpdated = false;
+var groupChatAliases = []
 
 // process a mention received to check if it is really new
 function processMention(user, mentionTime, data) {
@@ -176,6 +177,9 @@ function requestDMsCount() {
     for( var i = 0; i < followingUsers.length; i++ ) {
         followList.push({username:followingUsers[i]});
     }
+    for( var i = 0; i < groupChatAliases.length; i++ ) {
+        followList.push({username:groupChatAliases[i]});
+    }
 
     twisterRpc("getdirectmsgs", [defaultScreenName, 1, followList],
            function(req, dmUsers) {
@@ -221,10 +225,21 @@ function resetNewDMsCountForUser(user, lastId) {
     $.MAL.updateNewDMsUI(getNewDMsCount());
 }
 
+function updateGroupList() {
+    twisterRpc("listgroups", [],
+           function(req, ret) {groupChatAliases=ret;}, null,
+           function(req, ret) {console.log("twisterd >= 0.9.30 required for listgroups");}, null);
+}
+
 function initDMsCount() {
     loadDMsFromStorage();
     $.MAL.updateNewDMsUI(getNewDMsCount());
-    requestDMsCount();
+
+    //quick hack to obtain list of group chat aliases
+    updateGroupList();
+    setInterval("updateGroupList();", 60000);
+
+    setTimeout("requestDMsCount();", 200);
     //polling not needed: processNewPostsConfirmation will call requestDMsCount.
     //setInterval("requestDMsCount()", 5000);
 }