ClientQuery: Getting my CLID

**Triscopic** · 22-07-2011, 10:12

I've been playing with the ClientQuery plugin for the last few days. It's great - I managed to export "who's speaking now" data from it to my LCD display in only a few hours using it.

What I haven't been able to work out is a way to get the current user's identity, i.e. *my clid*. With this I could then extract things like, current channel name & topic and my mute status easily (I can already do that for any manually selected user).

There must be a way to work out who i am, but I can't find it - there doesn't seem to be any sort of "whoami" equivalent...

Can anyone help me with this?

**Peter** · 25-07-2011, 11:21

Hi,

you are right this functionality was missing. You will like the upcoming client release, we improved clientquery a lot. One of the many new commands is "whoami", I quote the help file:

Usage: whoami

Retrieves information about ourself:
- ClientID (if connected)
- ChannelID of the channel we are in (if connected)

If not connected, an error is returned.

Example:
whoami
clid=56 cid=1
error id=0 msg=ok

This client should be ready for testing in beta channel by tomorrow. Keep tuned for an announcement on the Announcements board

**Peter** · 01-08-2011, 08:18

Got a chance to try it yet? Any feedback?

**Triscopic** · 06-08-2011, 10:22

Wow, that's great news. I thought I'd be notified of replies but it turns out I'm not. Good thing I decided to check "manually"!

switching to the beta channel now. I can't tell you how grateful I am for this change - I had coded in a messy regex field to allow a user to specify their normal username(s), but if they just missed that it looked like half the stuf didn't work... hooray for user proofing!

**Triscopic** · 06-08-2011, 10:43

Right, fully tested it & integrated it into my app and it works like a charm. Thanks for implementing this.

Is there any schedule for upgrading the release channel with this feature?

P.S. I've also found the "subscribe to thread button"