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2 labels:
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3 - 'Stage-Alpha'
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4 summary: 'XEP-XXX: Cloud push notifications for MUC'
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7 # Introduction
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9 This is an experimental fork of [mod_cloud_notify](https://modules.prosody.im/mod_cloud_notify.html)
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10 which allows a [XEP-0357 Push Notifications App Servers](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html#general-architecture)
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11 to be registered against a MUC domain (normally they're only registered against
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12 your own chat server's domain).
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14 The goal here is to also enable push notifications also for MUCs.
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16 In contrast to mod_cloud_notify, this module does NOT integrate with
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17 mod_smacks, because a MUC can't access a remote user's XEP-0198 queue.
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19 Configuration
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20 =============
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22 Option Default Description
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23 ------------------------------------ ----------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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24 `push_notification_with_body` `false` Whether or not to send the message body to remote pubsub node.
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25 `push_notification_with_sender` `false` Whether or not to send the message sender to remote pubsub node.
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26 `push_max_errors` `16` How much persistent push errors are tolerated before notifications for the identifier in question are disabled
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27 `push_notification_important_body` `New Message!` The body text to use when the stanza is important (see above), no message body is sent if this is empty
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28 `push_max_devices` `5` The number of allowed devices per user (the oldest devices are automatically removed if this threshold is reached)
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30 There are privacy implications for enabling these options because
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31 plaintext content and metadata will be shared with centralized servers
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32 (the pubsub node) run by arbitrary app developers.
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34 ## To test this module:
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36 The [Converse](http://conversejs.org/) client has support for registering push
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37 "app servers" against a MUC.
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39 You specify app servers with the [push_app_servers](https://conversejs.org/docs/html/configuration.html#push-app-servers)
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40 config setting.
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42 And then you need to set [enable_muc_push](https://conversejs.org/docs/html/configuration.html#enable-muc-push)
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43 to `true` so that these app servers are also registered against MUC domains.
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45 Additionally you need to set [auto_register_muc_nickname](https://conversejs.org/docs/html/configuration.html#auto-register-muc-nickname)
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46 to true.
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48 Then, when you enter a MUC, Converse will try to automatically register your nickname
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49 on that MUC.
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51 Note: Converse currently doesn't let you register separate app servers for
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52 a MUC domain. The same app servers are registered for the MUC domain and your
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53 own domain.
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55 ## To be done:
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57 We currently don't handle "ghost connections", users who are currently offline
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58 but the XMPP server is not yet aware of this and shows considers them online in
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59 the MUC.
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61 Prosody already checks for error bounces from undelivered groupchat messages
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62 and then kicks the particular user from the room.
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64 So these ghost connection users eventually get kicked from the room.
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66 We now need a module that fires an event when a groupchat messages can't be
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67 delivered to an occupant. The module can look up the undelivered message in MAM
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68 and include it in the event.
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70 In mod_muc_cloud_notify we can then listen for this event and send out a push
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71 notification.