var session = Math.random(); // For outgoing message IDs
var since = {}; // server -> time: For fetch?since=
var seen = {}; // seen_key -> message
+ // Messages have these fields:
+ // Time: The timestamp. Median of ServerTimes
+ // ID: Some unique string for deduping
+ // Text: The text of the message
+ // ServerTimes: server -> timestamp
+ // UI: The DOM node for this message in the UI
function rcnick() {
var nick = localStorage.getItem("nick");
return id.replace(/@/g, "@@") + "_@_" + text.replace(/@/g, "@@");
}
+ function rcupdatemessagetime(message) {
+ // Set message.Time to be the median of message.ServerTimes
+ var times = [];
+ for (var i in message.ServerTimes) {
+ times.push(message.ServerTimes[i]);
+ }
+ times.sort();
+ var middle = times.length/2;
+ if (times.length % 2) {
+ message.Time = times[middle];
+ } else {
+ var difference = times[middle].getTime() - times[middle-1].getTime();
+ message.Time = new Date(times[middle-1].getTime() + difference/2);
+ }
+ }
+
function rcreceivemessages(server, messages) {
for (var i in messages) {
var m = messages[i];
m.Time = new Date(m.Time);
var seen_key = make_seen_key(m.ID, m.Text);
- if (!(seen_key in seen)) {
+ if (seen_key in seen) {
+ seen[seen_key].ServerTimes[server] = m.Time;
+ rcupdatemessagetime(seen[seen_key]);
+ } else {
+ m.ServerTimes = {};
+ m.ServerTimes[server] = m.Time;
seen[seen_key] = m;
rcaddmessagetohistory(m);
for (var i in servers) {