[JDEV] Two jabber:iq:roster questions

[David Waite]

Robert Temple wrote:

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> If I also remember groups correctly, whatever you put in the area for
> groups (inside of the item element) is just stored by the server
> as is.  You can put whatever XML you want in there.  So if you sent:
> <item jid='...'><foo>abc</foo><bar>123</bar></item>, you would
> get that back the next time you signin and get your roster.  Of
> course if you put something other then groups in there, it would
> might break other clients.
>
A slightly larger problem; if you store custom information here then it 
isn't guaranteed to be saved by the server; it depends on the XDB 
implementation the server installation uses, and most probably the 
specific implementation of the server.

-David Waite