[JDEV] Re: order of messages

[Jeremy Nickurak]

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 08:12, Bert Radke wrote: 
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:29:42 -0600
> Justin Georgeson <jgeorgeson at unboundtech.com> wrote:
> 
> > Jabber is an asynchronous protocol, hence the ID attribute.
> Yes, but I thought the ID is for matching a response, not for ordering
> the messages.

Not quite.
In an IQ conversation, this is correct. However. in messages, the id
really only allows one to track the messages, and to confirm the
relationship between the message as sent from one end, and recieved on
the other.

Copying the 'id' tag for message replies is fundamentally a bad
decision. If a reply-to-the-reply is produced under the same
circumstances, then you'd have one client sending out two messages with
the same ID in the same session, effectively eliminating any usefullness
of that attribute.

If you plan to track all messages that "belong" to a particular
conversation, you probabbly want to be using the "thread" child tag.

As for a way to track what message a given message is in response to...
I'm not aware of a current solution for that.
-- 
Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/Jabber: atrus at rifetech.com =-
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