ircel

Protocol

Client -> Server

irc.connect: 
{
    id: <id>, // a unique identifier for this connection
    server: <host>,
    port: <port>,
    nick: <nick>,
    channels: [<channel>, ...] | []
}

irc.join: 
{
    id: <id>,
    channel: <channel>
}

irc.message: 
{
    id: <id>,
    type: "say" | "ctcp" | "action" | "notice"
    target: <target>,
    message: <message>
}

irc.whois: 
{
    id: <id>,
    nick: <nick>
}

irc.list: // lists rooms
{
    id: <id>,
    args: [<arg>, ...] | []
}

TODO: how do we handle unknown commands?? (e.g., /blah)

Server -> Client

irc.message:
{
    id: <id>, // connnection
    type: "message" | "notice" | "privmsg"
    from: <from>,
    to: ...,
    message: ...
}

irc.event:
{
    id: <id>,
    type: "join" | "part"
    channel: ...,
    nick: ...
}

irc.whois:
{
    id: <id>,
    nick: ...,
    info: // http://node-irc.readthedocs.org/en/latest/API.html#%27whois%27
}

irc.list:
{
    id: <id>,
    list: [...]
}

irc.error:
{
    id: <id>,
    message: <message>
}

Client

Controller

• communicates with the server (using API defined above)
• calls UI function listen with callback that will be invoked on user input
  • callback(message, currentContext)
• calls Context.send with message when it wants something displayed
  • send({ type: "message" | "action" | "whois" | "names" | ..., content: String | Array | Object })
• creates new Context and calls addTab with it when necessary
  (e.g., when joining new channels)