[JDEV] Making a Roster Request Optional

[Stephen Pendleton]

I was wondering if anyone has tried this:

I am attempting to cache the roster of the user locally (in a file) so the
roster does not need to be downloaded from the server everytime the client
connects (conserves bandwidth). This works fine, but if I attempt to add a
user to the roster, no result XML is sent by the server, however the user
does get added to the roster on the server. I suppose I could get around
this problem by simply requesting the roster before a add user request is
sent, but I would like to avoid this.

Has anyone tried this, and could suggest a strategy? Is this a server bug,
or is a roster request considered to be mandatory?

Thanks,
Stephen