[JDEV] About transports...

[Waster_]

Jeremie wrote:

> I'll try to explain how the status packets interact with other transports
> and map onto their "status" settings...
>
> A typical Jabber status packet might look like:
> <status>
>  <say>Busy Working</say>
>  <priority>-5</priority>
> </status>
>
> Any client can't possibly be expected to understand about how a remote
> system's status might be handled, so it's going to be up to the transport
> to map a Jabber status onto the appropriate status settings for that
> remote syste(ICQ/AIM/etc).
>
> Say, for the above status, it was being forwarded on to an ICQ user via
> the ICQ transport.  The ICQ transport would need to map the -5 onto the
> range of "away" settings(-5 might be 'away' and -15 might be 'N/A', the
> priority values need to be mapped out as guidelines yet, another
> discussion).  Then, it would copy the <say></say> contents into the actual
> ICQ away message.
>
> It works just the same in reverse, ICQ status updates are translated to
> Jabber and sent on.
>
> A Jabber client should never need to be aware of any "transport only" data
> like specific ICQ status settings, everything is converted to/from Jabber,
> that's the point :)
>
> Jer
>

Yes, they can be handled that way, but at least the client must
know which priority is for connect and which priority for disconnect.