Following XMPP: The Definitive Guide

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Following XMPP: The Definitive Guide

Slixmpp was featured in the first edition of the O’Reilly book XMPP: The Definitive Guide by Peter Saint-Andre, Kevin Smith, and Remko Tronçon. The original source code for the book’s examples can be found at http://github.com/remko/xmpp-tdg. An updated version of the source code, maintained to stay current with the latest Slixmpp release, is available at http://github.com/legastero/xmpp-tdg.

However, since publication, Slixmpp has advanced from version 0.2.1 to version 1.0 and there have been several major API changes. The most notable is the introduction of stanza objects which have simplified and standardized interactions with the XMPP XML stream.

What follows is a walk-through of The Definitive Guide highlighting the changes needed to make the code examples work with version 1.0 of Slixmpp. These changes have been kept to a minimum to preserve the correlation with the book’s explanations, so be aware that some code may not use current best practices.

Example 2-2. (Page 26)

Implementation of a basic bot that echoes all incoming messages back to its sender.

The echo bot example requires a change to the handleIncomingMessage method to reflect the use of the Message stanza object. The "jid" field of the message object should now be "from" to match the from attribute of the actual XML message stanza. Likewise, "message" changes to "body" to match the body element of the message stanza.

Updated Code

def handleIncomingMessage(self, message):
    self.xmpp.send_message(message["from"], message["body"])

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Example 14-1. (Page 215)

CheshiR IM bot implementation.

The main event handling method in the Bot class is meant to process both message events and presence update events. With the new changes in Slixmpp 1.0, extracting a CheshiR status “message” from both types of stanzas requires accessing different attributes. In the case of a message stanza, the "body" attribute would contain the CheshiR message. For a presence event, the information is stored in the "status" attribute. To handle both cases, we can test the type of the given event object and look up the proper attribute based on the type.

Like in the EchoBot example, the expression event["jid"] needs to change to event["from"] in order to get a JID object for the stanza’s sender. Because other functions in CheshiR assume that the JID is a string, the jid attribute is used to access the string version of the JID. A check is also added in case user is None, but the check could (and probably should) be placed in addMessageFromUser.

Another change is needed in handleMessageAddedToBackend where an HTML-IM response is created. The HTML content should be enclosed in a single element, such as a <p> tag.

Updated Code

def handleIncomingXMPPEvent(self, event):
  msgLocations = {slixmpp.stanza.presence.Presence: "status",
                  slixmpp.stanza.message.Message: "body"}

  message = event[msgLocations[type(event)]]
  user = self.backend.getUserFromJID(event["from"].jid)
  if user is not None:
    self.backend.addMessageFromUser(message, user)

def handleMessageAddedToBackend(self, message) :
  body = message.user + ": " + message.text
  htmlBody = "<p><a href='%(uri)s'>%(user)s</a>: %(message)s</p>" % {
    "uri": self.url + "/" + message.user,
    "user" : message.user, "message" : message.text }
  for subscriberJID in self.backend.getSubscriberJIDs(message.user) :
    self.xmpp.send_message(subscriberJID, body, mhtml=htmlBody)

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Example 14-3. (Page 217)

Configurable CheshiR IM bot implementation.

Note

Since the CheshiR examples build on each other, see previous sections for corrections to code that is not marked as new in the book example.

The main difference for the configurable IM bot is the handling for the data form in handleConfigurationCommand. The test for equality with the string "1" is no longer required; Slixmpp converts boolean data form fields to the values True and False automatically.

For the method handleIncomingXMPPPresence, the attribute "jid" is again converted to "from" to get a JID object for the presence stanza’s sender, and the jid attribute is used to access the string version of that JID object. A check is also added in case user is None, but the check could (and probably should) be placed in getShouldMonitorPresenceFromUser.

Updated Code

def handleConfigurationCommand(self, form, sessionId):
  values = form.getValues()
  monitorPresence =values["monitorPresence"]
  jid = self.xmpp.plugin["xep_0050"].sessions[sessionId]["jid"]
  user = self.backend.getUserFromJID(jid)
  self.backend.setShouldMonitorPresenceFromUser(user, monitorPresence)

def handleIncomingXMPPPresence(self, event):
  user = self.backend.getUserFromJID(event["from"].jid)
  if user is not None:
    if self.backend.getShouldMonitorPresenceFromUser(user):
      self.handleIncomingXMPPEvent(event)

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Example 14-4. (Page 220)

CheshiR IM server component implementation.

Note

Since the CheshiR examples build on each other, see previous sections for corrections to code that is not marked as new in the book example.

Like several previous examples, a needed change is to replace subscription["from"] with subscription["from"].jid because the BaseXMPP method make_presence requires the JID to be a string.

A correction needs to be made in handleXMPPPresenceProbe because a line was left out of the original implementation; the variable user is undefined. The JID of the user can be extracted from the presence stanza’s from attribute.

Since this implementation of CheshiR uses an XMPP component, it must include a from attribute in all messages that it sends. Adding the from attribute is done by including mfrom=self.xmpp.jid in calls to self.xmpp.send_message.

Updated Code

def handleXMPPPresenceProbe(self, event) :
  self.xmpp.send_presence(pto = event["from"])

def handleXMPPPresenceSubscription(self, subscription) :
  if subscription["type"] == "subscribe" :
    userJID = subscription["from"].jid
    self.xmpp.send_presence_subscription(pto=userJID, ptype="subscribed")
    self.xmpp.send_presence(pto = userJID)
    self.xmpp.send_presence_subscription(pto=userJID, ptype="subscribe")

def handleMessageAddedToBackend(self, message) :
  body = message.user + ": " + message.text
  for subscriberJID in self.backend.getSubscriberJIDs(message.user) :
    self.xmpp.send_message(subscriberJID, body, mfrom=self.xmpp.jid)

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Example 14-6. (Page 223)

CheshiR IM server component with in-band registration support.

Note

Since the CheshiR examples build on each other, see previous sections for corrections to code that is not marked as new in the book example.

After applying the changes from Example 14-4 above, the registrable component implementation should work correctly.

Tip

To see how to implement in-band registration as a Slixmpp plugin, see the tutorial tutorial-create-plugin.

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Example 14-7. (Page 225)

Extended CheshiR IM server component implementation.

Note

Since the CheshiR examples build on each other, see previous sections for corrections to code that is not marked as new in the book example.

While the final code example can look daunting with all of the changes made, it requires very few modifications to work with the latest version of Slixmpp. Most differences are the result of CheshiR’s backend functions expecting JIDs to be strings so that they can be stripped to bare JIDs. To resolve these, use the jid attribute of the JID objects. Also, references to "message" and "jid" attributes need to be changed to either "body" or "status", and either "from" or "to" depending on if the object is a message or presence stanza and which of the JIDs from the stanza is needed.

Updated Code

def handleIncomingXMPPMessage(self, event) :
  message = self.addRecipientToMessage(event["body"], event["to"].jid)
  user = self.backend.getUserFromJID(event["from"].jid)
  self.backend.addMessageFromUser(message, user)

def handleIncomingXMPPPresence(self, event) :
  if event["to"].jid == self.componentDomain :
    user = self.backend.getUserFromJID(event["from"].jid)
    self.backend.addMessageFromUser(event["status"], user)

...

def handleXMPPPresenceSubscription(self, subscription) :
  if subscription["type"] == "subscribe" :
    userJID = subscription["from"].jid
    user = self.backend.getUserFromJID(userJID)
    contactJID = subscription["to"]
    self.xmpp.send_presence_subscription(
        pfrom=contactJID, pto=userJID, ptype="subscribed", pnick=user)
    self.sendPresenceOfContactToUser(contactJID=contactJID, userJID=userJID)
    if contactJID == self.componentDomain :
      self.sendAllContactSubscriptionRequestsToUser(userJID)

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