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mod_rest: Fix nested message stanzas in XEP-0297 containers It's all a bit awkward because it doesn't normally use the whole schema directly, but rather checks which stanza type is used and picks out that property as a schema. Which also prevents references from working.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:40:28 +0100
parents 88474dd1af48
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This module is an experiment about a more graceful shutdown process.

Why
===

When shutting down, a number of sessions, connections and other things
are teared down. Due to all these things happening very quickly,
sometimes e.g. client unavailable notifications don't make it to all
remote contacts because the server-to-server connections are teared down
just after.

How
===

This module works by breaking the shutdown process into separate steps
with a brief pause between them.

It goes something like this

1.  Stop accepting new client connections.
2.  Close all client connections.
3.  Fire event for everything else.
4.  Tell `net.server` to quit the main loop.
5.  ???
6.  Still here? Kill itself.