Extreme newbe confused about private chat

[Former Community Member]

I am working on an app that needs the ability for mostly private chats (versus chatroom discussions).  Looking at the afcs docs and code samples I cannot seem to find an easy way to establish communications between 2 users without administering rooms/groups, etc.  What I was hoping for was a way to keep tabs on online vs. offline users (abviously afcs does this well with session mgmt, roster, etc), with the p2p capabilities like Stratus (get the peerid of a user and then call them directly).  Can someone enlighten me? thanks

[Former Community Member]

Sup Dude,

I don't know if P2P is really what you want for this case (it wouldn't support, say, offline messages or even get the order of messages right) - it's pretty easy to do this w/ AFCS. Just set up a SimpleChatModel (it's in the SharedModel package), and when you send a chatMessageDescriptor through it, specify a recipient (the userID of the specific person you're talking to). This way, everyone in the room can be talking through the same model, but each conversation is kept private.

hope that helps

nigel

[Former Community Member]

Thanks Nigel,

Forest and the trees.  Should have seen this.

Thanks for the tips.