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Recode backend to match interaces: one big Service that handles everything and several skeleton Services that declare the interface that they implement along with passing on calls to the 'implemented' methods.
author Ralph Meijer <ralphm@ik.nu>
date Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:28:07 +0000
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1 This is the first try at rewriting Idavoll using Twisted Python.
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4 What is Idavoll
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5 ===============
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7 A pubsub service, as defined in JEP-0060, aiming to be fully compliant and
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8 mostly complete. The goal is to build a /generic/ pubsub service, but of which
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9 parts can be reused for building custom pubsub services for specific
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10 applications.
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13 Current Status
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14 ==============
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16 It is still very experimental, has hardcoded nodes and subscriptions and no
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17 storage for items.
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19 It does implement the mimimal requirements of JEP-0060 version 1.4. It also
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20 returns the following features defined in version 1.5 of the specification:
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22 http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#outcast-affil
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23 http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#publisher-affil
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25 It lacks support for requesting the current affiliations, and doesn't allow
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26 for discoing for meta-data of nodes. Therefore it is not compliant with 1.5,
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27 yet.
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29 Requirements
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30 ============
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32 - Twisted >= 1.2.0
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33 - The following patches to the twisted/xish directory:
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35 http://mag.ik.nu/~ralphm/tmp/domish.py.patch
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36 http://mag.ik.nu/~ralphm/tmp/utility.py.patch
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37 http://mag.ik.nu/~ralphm/tmp/xpath.py.patch
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39 - A jabber server like jabberd 1.4
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41 Usage
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44 For jabberd 1.4 configuration, put the following in jabber.xml:
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46 <service id='pubsub.localhost'>
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47 <accept>
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48 <ip>127.0.0.1</ip>
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49 <port>1238</port>
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50 <secret>mysecret</secret>
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51 </accept>
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52 </service>
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54 and restart jabberd.
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56 Then, in the same directory as this file run:
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58 mktap idavoll --rport=1238 --jid=pubsub.localhost --secret=1238
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59 twistd -rf idavoll.tap
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