Hello there, 

I am writing a module and need to have a good grasp of messaging in DNN. I tried to find it i the source code but it is huge and kind of baffling. 

I am pretty much interested to find where DNN checks if somebody has a new message in the inbox, and the modules that handles sending messages and replays.

I looked to the wiki for API's, although it is a good start it literally tells you nothing. 

I would appreciate if you can tell me where to find these in DNN source code.  

1- check if user have a new message .

2- create a replay to that message.

Thanks in advance !

I would suggest that you look at creating your own set of wrapper classes if you are considering directly accessing the internal messaging methods - that way if and when they do change its easier to remap your wrapper methods in most cases.

But IMHO - given the import that is being placed on social/notifications/messaging - and the fact that its all bound up and wired thru the core - it seems like maybe there DO need to be external facing APIs that can be accessed by 3rd party modules in the future.

Westa

AFAIR threads and conversations are the same thing - they're there to support the case where a user is talking to multiple people e.g. when 1 user posts to a group (that say contains 1000 people), rather than create a message for each of these, we create one entry and note that it goes to many people. This is tracked via the conversationID, so a reply to the message can go to all the users (and again only creates one entry, and not a thousand). As for MarkMessageAsDispatched, - when a message that is to be emailed (such as a notification or system email) is created, MarkMessageAsDispatched is set to false. There is an email scheduled task which checks periodically and when it finds a new message, checks who it's sent to and dispatches the messages (so in the case I've described sends 1000 messages) - this entry is then set to MarkMessageAsDispatched=true by the scheduled task. Note: when you do not want to send email out to the users (such as a message sent via the messaging system) but want the messages created you set MarkMessageAsDispatched=true when creating the message.

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