ymsg.support
Class AntiSpam

Object
  AntiSpam

public class AntiSpam

extends Object

Provides basic anti-spam functionality for chatrooms.

Since:

1.0

Field Summary

static int	CAPS Message is overwhelmingly upper case letters.
static int	FLOOD Message is attempt to flood chatroom.
static int	REPEAT Message is repeat of recent message.

Constructor Summary

AntiSpam()
Construct a new anti-spam instance.

Method Summary

int	getViolations(String u, String m) Returns an integer of flags denoting which checks failed.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

REPEAT

public static final int REPEAT

Message is repeat of recent message.

Since:

1.0

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Constant Field Values

FLOOD

public static final int FLOOD

Message is attempt to flood chatroom. (Currently unsupported.)

Since:

1.0

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Constant Field Values

CAPS

public static final int CAPS

Message is overwhelmingly upper case letters.

Since:

1.0

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

AntiSpam

public AntiSpam()

Construct a new anti-spam instance.

Since:

1.0

Method Detail

getViolations

public int getViolations(String u,
                         String m)

Returns an integer of flags denoting which checks failed. The static constants elsewhere in this class should be masked against this value to determine whether a particular anti-spam test was 'alerted' by the message provided.

Note: this method will extracted the plain text from a Yahoo richly formatted message automatically. There is no need to do this yourself.

Parameters:

u - id of user who sent the message

m - text of message (can be formatted)

Returns:

int of flags

Since:

1.0