Description
This interface contains SMS-specific properties for text channels. This currently only includes whether the SMSes received on the channel should be displayed immediately to the user, without prompting.
Properties
Flash — b
If True, then this channel is exclusively for
receiving class 0 SMSes (and no SMSes can be sent using SendMessage
on this channel). If False, no incoming class 0 SMSes
will appear on this channel.
Rationale:
Class 0 SMSes should be displayed immediately to the user, and need not be saved to the device memory unless the user explicitly chooses to do so. (This is unlike “normal”, class 1 SMSes, which must be stored, but need not be shown immediately in their entirity to the user.) Separating class 0 SMSes into their own channel allows them to be dispatched to a different Handler (which would include this property in its HandlerChannelFilter) avoiding the normal Text channel handler having to decide for each message whether it should be displayed to the user immediately or handled normally.
Currently, no mechanism is defined for sending class 0
SMSes. It seems reasonable to support specifying the class of an
outgoing SMS in its header Message_Part, rather
than requiring the UI to request a special channel for such SMSes;
hence, we define here that channels with Flash set to
True are read-only.
This property is immutable (cannot change), and therefore SHOULD appear wherever immutable properties are reported, e.g. NewChannels signals.