[jdev] IQ request response query

[Vinod Panicker]

On 12/7/05, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org> wrote:
> Justin Karneges wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 21:00, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> >> OK, good. The spec is incomplete on this point mainly because we never
> >> thought any client developer would generate something so "stupid". But
> >> when you write these specs you often assume too much -- not everyone
> >> comes to these specs with a background of Jabber development experience,
> >> and what seems stupid to longtime Jabberites probably seems just fine to
> >> a newbie.
> >
> > For mass operations it could make sense.  What does jabberd do?  What does JRU
> > do?  Might be worth investigating first.
>
> The jabber:iq:roster namespace was never meant for batch operations of
> this kind -- not in 1999 when rosters were invented, not in 2002 when we
>   documented this stuff through the IETF, not in 2005 when someone
> noticed a bug in the spec.

Apologies for reopening this thread after such a long time, but I
found an instance where multiple item's are being sent in a single iq
roster set.  This is how Pandion renames a group in the client's
roster -

<iq type="set" id="sd72">
    <query xmlns="jabber:iq:roster">
        <item jid="contact at 192.168.1.183">
            <group>NewGroup</group>
        </item>
        <item jid="user at 192.168.1.183">
            <group>NewGroup</group>
        </item>
    </query>
</iq>

Quite a valid scenario, I'd say...

Regards,
Vinod.