annotate mod_http_roster_admin/README @ 2209:2733cb8c82a9

mod_statistics: Add 'statistics_meminfo_interval' option to control the number of seconds between calls to mallinfo(). Between calls, cached results are used.
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
date Mon, 13 Jun 2016 13:15:07 +0100
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1 mod_http_roster_admin
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2 =====================
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4 NOTE: THIS MODULE IS RELEASED UNDER THE MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE VERSION 2.
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6 Normally the XMPP server will store and maintain the users' contact
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7 rosters. This module lets you delegate roster management to an external
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8 service.
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10 Prosody will make an HTTP request to fetch the roster from the external
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11 service. The service will need to notify Prosody whenever a user's roster
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12 changes, so that Prosody can fetch a new roster for that user.
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14 Configuring this module
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15 -----------------------
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17 This module relies on `mod_storage_memory` and `mod_block_subscriptions`.
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19 In `.parts/prosody/etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua`, where your particular
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20 `VirtualHost` is being configured, add the following:
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22 modules_enabled = {
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23 "http_roster_admin",
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24 "block_subscriptions",
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25 "storage_memory",
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26 "http_files"
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27 }
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28 modules_disabled = {
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29 -- Prosody will get the roster from the backend app,
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30 -- so we disable the default roster module.
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31 "roster"
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32 }
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33 storage = { roster = "memory" }
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34 http_roster_url = "http://localhost/contacts/%s" -- %s will be replaced by an URL-encoded username
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36 The `http_roster_url` parameter needs to be configured to point to the
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37 URL in the backend application which returns users' contacts rosters.
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39 In this URL, the pattern `%s` is replaced by an URL-encoded username.
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41 When the user *john* then connects to Prosody, and `http_roster_url` is
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42 set to “http://app.example.org/contacts/%s”, then Prosody will make a
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43 GET request to http://app.example.org/contacts/john
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44
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45 Notifying Prosody of roster changes
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46 ***********************************
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48 The external service needs to notify Prosody whenever a user's roster
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49 changes. To do this, it must make an HTTP POST request to either:
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51 * http://localhost:5280/roster_admin/refresh
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52 * https://localhost:5281/roster_admin/refresh
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54 Make sure that the "http_files" module is enabled in Prosody's configuration,
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55 for the above URLs to served.
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57 Ports 5280/5281 can be firewalled and the web server (i.e. Apache or Nginx)
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58 can be configured to reverse proxy those URLs to for example
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59 https://example.org/http-bind.
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61 The contents of the POST should be a JSON encoded array of usernames whose
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62 rosters have changed.
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64 For example, if user ‘john’ became friends with ‘aaron’, both john’s
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65 contact list and aaron’s contact lists have changed:
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66
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67 ```
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68 ["john", "aaron"]
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69 ```
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70
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71 When the operation is complete Prosody will reply with a summary of the
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72 operation - a JSON object containing:
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74 * **status**: either “ok” (success) or “error” (operation completely failed)
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75 * **message**: A human-readable message (for logging and debugging purposes)
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76 * **updated**: The number of rosters successfully updated
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77 * **errors**: The number of rosters that failed to update
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79 Example:
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80
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81 ```
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82 {
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83 "status": "ok",
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84 "message": "roster update complete",
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85 "updated": 2,
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86 "errors": 0
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87 }
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88 ```
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89
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90 Prosody may also return status codes `400` or `500` in case of errors (such
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91 as a missing/malformed body).