How to handle incoming SMS with QtMobility

[glatorre]

Hi all. Can someone tell me how handle incoming SMS?
For example I want to do something when an SMS, from a specific sender, is arriving.
In Qt mobility extensions there was a signal called "messageArrived" but now in QtMobility this signal doesn't exist.

Which signal can I use?

Thanks

[skumar_rao]

you can use QMessageStore::registerNotificationFilter

[glatorre]

Ok thanks

[maniiiita]

Can I get some more details on the Question . ie how to use registerNotificationFilter.

Also I wanted to know how to copy/move the messages from message store to some specific folder(say some user created folder.)

[maniiiita]

Still waiting for some answers. Or my questions are not clear .
Thanks in advance .

[tomreini]

Hi,

I have used code like this (QtMobility-1.0.0-beta1).

I declare the manager as a class member in the .h file.

QMessageManager m_messageManager;

In the constructor I setup the manager and connect the messageAdded-signal to my handler-slot.

m_messageManager.registerNotificationFilter(QMessageFilter::byStandardFolder(QMessage::InboxFolder));

connect(&m_messageManager, 
        SIGNAL(messageAdded(const QMessageId&, const QMessageManager::NotificationFilterIdSet&)),
        this, SLOT(receiveMessage(const QMessageId&)));

and my handler-slot looks like this.

void MainWindow::receiveMessage(const QMessageId& id)
{
    qDebug() << "Receive message " << id.toString();

    // TODO: You must find more sophisticated approach than this while -loop here. 
    while (m_messageManager.message(id).type() == QMessage::NoType);

    QMessage message(m_messageManager.message(id));
    QString subject = message.subject();
    if (subject.length() == 0) {
        subject = message.textContent(); // This function was not documented 
                                         // (when I last looked the API documents)
    }

    qDebug() << message.type() << message.from().recipient() << subject;
}

I hope that this code snippet put you in right path.

[Zedster]

// TODO: You must find more sophisticated approach than this while -loop here. 
while (m_messageManager.message(id).type() == QMessage::NoType);

I have a question regarding this little piece of code, is the idea here to wait for the SMS to load completely? Because i am having problems reading the SMS content. Sometimes there is a body and a sender, more often however both fields are empty, and the type of the message is QMessage::NoType. The only explanation i could find is im trying to read the content before it has had time to load, is this correct?

I've been looking through the documentation and tried the following approach:

msgStore.registerNotificationFilter(QMessageFilter::byStandardFolder(QMessage::InboxFolder) & QMessageFilter::byType(QMessage::Sms));

This didn't work at all. So is there any working way of checking when the message is ready to be read?

Thanks in advance!

[tomreini]

Yes, you've understood correctly. E.g. When you study this (line 349 onward) example code in Qt Mobility Gitorius, you can find that lots of code lines are used to solve this problem.

Note also the Known Issues in Messaging API. There are some limitations when using the filters in Messaging API. You can find them from Release Notes of the QtMobility Project.