Feature request: automatically relay messages

[muelli01]

Hello,

I hope this project is still active in a way :)
I have a small feature request, would it be possible to implement an automatic relay function to a relay channel?

Example:
Channel 1 - XMPP
Channel 2 - XMPP
Channel 3 - IRC <-- relay channel

All channels are added to the bridge, channel 3 is defined as a relay channel.
All message from Channels 1+2 are then relayed to Channel 3.

Thanks!
Regards
Stefan

[bill-auger]

there is something like that in development on the 'bridge-all' branch now - feedback welcome

a gitter chat was created recently for this project also - feel free to join it https://gitter.im/bill-auger/bridgin/

[muelli01]

thank you, tried it, but somehow I cannot manage to achieve the desired goal. Whenever I join one of the channels 1 or 2, it floods them with messages from either channels 1 or 2 :)

Do I have to add channels to the bridge in a certain sequence?

[bill-auger]

the order does not matter - all channels are equivalent peers in a "fully-connected" topology

i am not entirely clear what you are proposing though - you say:

"All message from Channels 1+2 are then relayed to Channel 3."

that is already true because all channels are relayed to all other channels on the same bridge - it seems like you want to put explicit constraints or filters on the flow of messages to and from individual channels

i made a graph recently that may help to explain - the first graph ("Omni-directional Mode") is the current behaviour now - the second one is a planned feature

[muelli01]

Yes, I thought it would be possible to define a relay channel (in my example #3) that only receives the messages from the bridged channels (#1 + #2).

Exactly, the uni-directional mode seems to be what I was locking for.....