net.java.sip.communicator.service.customavatar
Interface CustomAvatarService

All Known Implementing Classes:

NimbuzzAvatarsActivator

public interface CustomAvatarService

Service implementers can give a custom way of retrieving avatars for given contact address. ProtocolProviders will use these methods to search for avatar if their contacts are missing picture.

Author:

Damian Minkov

Method Summary

byte[]

getAvatar(String address) Returns the avatar bytes for the given contact address.

Method Detail

getAvatar

byte[] getAvatar(String address)

Returns the avatar bytes for the given contact address.

Parameters:

address - the address to search for its avatar.

Returns:

image bytes.