[jdev] SPPS and external components

[Norman Rasmussen]

On 2/18/06, Ralph Meijer <jabber.org at ralphm.ik.nu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:04:40PM +0200, Norman Rasmussen wrote:
> > On 1/24/06, Jacek Konieczny <jajcus at jajcus.net> wrote:
> > > Things that need to be solved:
> > >
> > > 1. redirecting SPPS queries addressed to users to the external
> > > component.
> > > 2. providing the external component with roster information.
> >
> > The way I see it, by the time you've written code (for each server) to
> > 'filter' out those pubsub packets and send them to the pubsub
> > component, you might as well have added spps directly to the server.
> >
> > It saves having to write the roster sharing code too.  The only other
> > reason I can think of why you'd want to 'share your roster' is if you
> > want multiple identity jids under a single account.  (i.e.
> > meta-accounts).
>
> I think that jabberd 2 has another component protocol that would allow
> this. You can route stanzas according to the namespace of the child of
> iqs. I haven't had the time to try that out, though.

It doesn't help with disco items though, as those are in the disco
namespace which used for other things as well - I think.  You'd have
to make the PEP component handle _all_ disco registrations and
requests - which isn't terrible I guess.

The only jabberd2 component spec that I know of is [1], and it doesn't
seem to indicate that it can handle binding to xml subdomains.  Of
course, the spec doesn't have to match the code currently implemented.

[1] http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/dev/docs/component.shtml

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