[jdev] Reproducability of XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities - 5.3 Complex Generation Example

[Yann Leboulanger]

Ralph Meijer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 00:35 +0200, Yann Leboulanger wrote:
>> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> We assume that the client received a dataform of type "form" and then
>>> submitted it (no need to include the types there because the entity
>>> you're submitting to sent you the form in the first place), and yes I
>>> think the client would need to remember the types it received in the
>>> dataform of type "form" in order to properly parse the result. But we
>>> could tighten up the spec on this score if that is desirable.
>> That's not always True. For example in XEP-0128, we get a result form 
>> without having previously requested anything, so we have no way to know 
>> which type of field it is.
>>
>> This is a problem currently in Gajim as our DataForm parser accept 
>> several values element only in list-multi. So it doesn't parse correclty 
>> dataforms from XEP-0128. So we can't compute correclty caps hash (it 
>> contains those values)
>>
>> But I'm not sure it's a good thing to guess field type from the number 
>> of values elements in it ...
> 
> You can know the types of the fields because of the scoping by the
> FORM_TYPE field. Yes, this would require you knowing about the fields
> you can expect, but you need that for further processing anyway.

ok so you mean that clients are supposed to hard code registrar from
http://www.xmpp.org/registrar/formtypes.html ?

> You don't need to know about the types for hash calculations, since this
> is not the place to actually validate the form. It only needs to be
> well-formed and adhere to the Data Forms schema.

Right, but it's sad that we have to write another parser to compute caps
and not use our standard data forms parser.
-- 
Yann