[JDEV] Problem with agents-reply

[Jens Askengren]

Hello!

A jabber client has to request the agent-list before requesting the roster 
to be able to know the difference between JIDs of buddies and JIDs of 
agents, right?

But there is a major problems with the current design of the agents reply:
If the client request info about subagents, and get no response, it will 
wait forever for a response. (Unless you do some hackish timeout tricks.)
 
Why not just make the agents reply expanded to include _all_ agents and
subagents, since you'll have to request subagents recursively anyway?

Something like this would simplify client design a lot:

<iq type="result" id="1001">
	<query xmlns="jabber:iq:agents">
 		<agent jid="rss.denmark">
			<name>Headline service</name>
			[...]
			<agent jid="freshmeat.rss.denmark">
				<name>Fresmeat news</name>
				[...]
			</agent>
		</agent>
       		<agent jid="aim.denmark">
			[...]
		</agent>
	</query>
</iq>

	-Jens

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