Use gratuitous descs and get rid of _brief

[mume]

Use gratuitous descs and get rid of _brief

[nschimme]

Cool, I imagine this is a recent enhancement to the existing MPI protocol?

[waba4mume]

Yes :) I wanted something that Just Worked (tm) for the webclient.

I think that'll also solve 99% of the issues users may have getting MM2 to work, while simplifying the parsing code quite a bit. I'm not even sure why MM2 still has a text-mode parser and related input text color options...

NB: gratuitous descs are not sent when the character couldn't see them with "exa", for example a whitie in a moon-lit room.

[nschimme]

I took a stab at coding this. It wasn't too hard but I realized that we still need m_brief for the non-XML path. I'm considering deprecating that path to make the overall code base smaller.

[waba4mume]

I'm 100% for removing the non-XML parser, as I can't think of a valid usecase for it nowadays. That would make both the code and the config UI simpler.

I'll have a look at PR #50 soon, I hope.

[tomaswindsor]

Wouldn't it be sufficient to send a hash (e.g. md5) of the description for these purposes? It would reduce the net traffic at least...
That is at least in the non-mapping mode.

[nschimme]

I imagine MUME doesn't have easily available md5 algorithm but that does make sense

[nschimme]

@waba4mume could add more details

[waba4mume]

The gratuitous desc completely replaces the normal desc when you play in brief mode.

So if I sent only a sum, mmapper couldn't perform loose matching (match rooms where the desc has been edited a bit). And then there is the mapping issue, as you mentioned.