How do I retrieve the transcript of a chat?

Smack Smack Dev
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I have just started playing about with the Smack libraries, talking to an OpenFire server. So far most things have been very simple, and I am very impressed. However I cannot seem to work out how to retrieve the transcript of a chat, and my Google and forum searches have not yielded any results. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Stuart

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Hi Stuart,

By default, chat transcripts are usually stored locally rather than being stored on the server. If you use a plugin like Open Archive that implements XEP-0136 you could write a client that retrieves chats as needed, but you’ll want to do something similar to what Spark does using its transcript api.

Hope that helps,

Ryan

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Thank you for response. I appreciate the quick turnaround. I will evaluate my options now.

Regards,

Stuart