TruxtonCommunication

This class lets you add to the communication items (email/sms/mms) to Truxton. This will populate the Message, MessageAddress, and other tables in the database.

Attributes and Methods

addparticipant(account, role)

After save() has been called, you add the participants to the message. The account is the phone number or email address or account that participated in the message. The role parameter is the MESSAGE_PARTICIPANT constants. It should be a value that matches the ID column of the MessageAddressType table.

fileid

The GUID of the file this event came from. This corresponds to the FileID column of the Message table.

finished()

This should be called after you have finished adding pieces to this message.

id

This is the GUID of the event. It becomes non-zero after save() has been called.

mediaid

This is the GUID of the media this event came from. This identifier corresponds to the MediaID of the Message table.

received

When the message was received in FILETIME ticks. This corresponds to the Received column of the Message table.

save()

This will commit the information to the Event table.

sent

When the message was sent in FILETIME ticks. This corresponds to the Sent column of the Message table.

subject

The subject of the message. If the message type is SMS or MMS, this is the text of the message. This corresponds to the Text column of the MessageSubject table.

tag(tag, reason, origin)

This creates a tag associated with this event in Truxton. The tag parameter is a short, one or two word, bit of text that will be displayed in the UI. The reason a sentence explaining why this event was tagged. The origin is either TAG_ORIGIN_AUTOMATIC (1) or TAG_ORIGIN_HUMAN (2). It will return True if the tag was associated with the file, False on failure.

type

The type of message. It is one of the MESSAGE_TYPE constants. This corresponds to the MessageTypeID column of the Message table and should be a value from the ID column of the MessageType table.

Sample

 1 def add_message(parent_truxton_file):
 2   communication = parent_file.newcommunication()
 3   communication.sent = ticks("2015-08-16T21:31:37-00:00");
 4   communication.received = communication.sent
 5   communication.subject = "Dinner at 8?"
 6   communication.type = truxton.MESSAGE_TYPE_SMS
 7   communication.save()
 8 
 9   communication.addparticipant("703.555.1212", truxton.MESSAGE_PARTICIPANT_FROM)
10   communication.addparticipant("202.555.1212", truxton.MESSAGE_PARTICIPANT_TO)
11 
12   communication.finished()