[jdev] Re: Adding Contacts to other rosters

[Peter Saint-Andre]

In article <416E5B96.9000606 at z17.net>, Erich Buri <buri at z17.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to connect several devices together using XMPP. Now, in 
> order to be able to say which devices should talk to each other, I 
> wanted to "connect" them by putting they're JID's on they're rosters.
> 
> How could I add contacts to the roster of a device? I was thinking about 
> accessing directly the sm_db. (I'use jabberd2 with Berkeley-DB as 
> storage-system). But it looks pretty complicated because the storage 
> system is very generic.
> 
> Can I develope a component that directly forges subscription-messages 
> and sends them to the Session-Manager.
> 
> I can also think about implementing a logic into the device that tells 
> one device to add a certain JID to his roster. But this gets pretty ugly 
> when I require that devices somehow veryfi subscription-requests....
> 
> Has anybody done something like this before?

This may be helpful:

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0144.html

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