cant get purple_conv_im_send to work

[Dipankar Sarkar]

Hi pidgin-devs

I picked up nullclient.c from the example and wanted to build a simple reply
bot, i changed the following

/*** Conversation uiops ***/
static void
null_write_conv(PurpleConversation *conv, const char *who, const char
*alias,
                        const char *message, PurpleMessageFlags flags,
time_t mtime)
{
        const char *name;
        if (alias && *alias)
                name = alias;
        else if (who && *who)
                name = who;
        else
                name = NULL;

        printf("(%s) %s %s: %s\n", purple_conversation_get_name(conv),
                        purple_utf8_strftime("(%H:%M:%S)",
localtime(&mtime)),
                        name, message);
        purple_conv_im_send(PURPLE_CONV_IM(conv),"Hi"); // Added this line
}

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What happens is that the message starts to repeat itself and floods my user
(tested it on jabber), i have been unable to get it to work.
Can someone point to some documentation that can explain what is happening
.... i really wanna understand this better

(It has happened across all the versions of libpurple i tried, from 2.2.1 to
2.3.1)

Cheers,
Dipankar Sarkar
http://dipankar.name
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