Mark a room as read

[erdnaxeli]

Like the title says, this would ease the use of other clients.

If I look at how it is done in the python script, a read marker is sent for the last event if:

• we switch to a room buffer and the last message was not already read
• when we send a message, we mark it as read when receiving it back

Sending send receipt or not should be configurable, with default to sending them.

I will try to propose a PR.

[erdnaxeli]

Ok so it looks like a bit harder than I thought 😅

In MatrixRoom, in handle_outgoing_message, I can look if I need to send a read marker or not. I need to save the last event id and the last read event id in the struct, this part is ok. But how can I access the matrix client object from there to send the read marker?

[poljar]

Requests need to be executed on the Tokio runtime, the runtime and the client are contained inside a Connection object which abstracts those away.

You'll have to borrow the connection and if one is active, send the request using the connection. You'll probably will want to add a new helper method to the connection.

Take a look at how messages or typing notifications are handled here and here at the connection side.