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| author | Tom Smeding <tom.smeding@gmail.com> | 2020-07-27 16:02:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Tom Smeding <tom.smeding@gmail.com> | 2020-07-27 16:02:21 +0200 |
| commit | 701c8add0d75f94ca2c34cafa686a54aee5854c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 2acd3ded3c34ee3d098bf882336c998de811e547 /protocol.md | |
| parent | 947dd507870976ad5fb29d76da7689cf88170cb0 (diff) | |
Fix docs: 'history' gives messages in chronological order
Diffstat (limited to 'protocol.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | protocol.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/protocol.md b/protocol.md index 346bfe4..ac8d86a 100644 --- a/protocol.md +++ b/protocol.md @@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ A _response_ from the server will be in one of the following forms: - `<tag> history <count:i64>` - Response to the client's `history` command; is followed by exactly `<count>` messages of type `history_message` with the same tag. The messages are - returned in reverse chronological order (newest first). + returned in chronological order (oldest first). - `<tag> history_message <index:i64> <roomname:word> <user:word> <timestamp:i64> <msgid:i64> <message:string...>` - Part of the response to the client's `history` command. Index 0 is the - newest message; index (`<count>` - 1) (from the `history` response) is the - oldest message in the fragment requested. Timestamps are microseconds since + oldest message; index (`<count>` - 1) (from the `history` response) is the + newest message in the fragment requested. Timestamps are microseconds since the UNIX epoch. The message id for each message is globally unique for the entire server. @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ ranges until the end of the line). member of the room. In the `history` response, `<count>` will be at most `<number>`, and may be less if the room does not yet have `<number>` messages. Each message will be returned in a `history_message` response - after the `history` response, in reverse chronological order. + after the `history` response, in chronological order. - Returns `history`, followed by zero or more `history_message`. - `<tag> history_before <roomname:word> <number:i64> <msgid:i64>` - Same as `history`, except the returned messages are the last `<number>` |