Creating new account

Smack Smack Dev
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Hi all… I’‘m writing a chat app client (applet) I’'m connecting to server fine (our own jabber server here at work), but get an error when try to open acct for a user…

java.lang.NullPointerException

at chat.init(chat.java:147)

at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

now line 147 in chat.java is where I have this:

try {

acct.createAccount(Uid,pswd);

} catch (XMPPException e) {

System.out.println("Exception Caught: " + e.getMessage() + " " + e);

}

(compiles fine, further up I have: ‘‘AccountManager acct;’’)

so have 2 questions:

  1. why is this code failing, and

  2. why is XMPEException not being caught…)

(it’‘s not printing what it’'s supposed to print if catches exception…)

(no problem w/server, can create a new accts from clients such as Jeti, etc…)

thank you very much…

2

Did you initialize the AccountManager? Try “new AccountManager(XMPPConnection)”.

3

thank you very much for yr response… ok, did this now…

XMPPConnection conn;

AccountManager acct;

…

try {

acct = new AccountManager(conn);

acct.createAccount(sNewUid,pswd);

} catch (XMPPException e) {

System.out.println("Exception Caught: " + e.getMessage() + " " + e);

}

I get this error:

Exception Caught: (400) (400)

pls, what is this ‘‘400’’ error?

have been looking at Smack documentation, and even though I found code to create new acct in there can’'t find it now… (I mean the page where he says how to create new acct… I think I remember taking that code from there…) again, thank you very much…

4

When all else fails:

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0086.html

5

thank you for pointing me to this page… it says error 400 is a ‘‘bad rquest’’… why is this a bad request? this is correct code for opening an acount, right? (it compiles fine, at any rate…)

other things it says about this error:

– malformed JID (I have properly-formed JID (name@jabberserver.com)

– unexpected request (which means?)

(I’‘m using JID as password also, i.e., JID and pswd are the same… could this be a problem? (shouldn’'t be, it seems to me…))

how do I figure this out? how do other folks here create accounts…

again, many thanks for yr help…

6

You should not be supplying the "name@jabberserver.com" but just “name” for the username

Added quotes for clarity

Message was edited by:

AWenckus

7

thank you very much…

ok, didn’'t know about JID format… thank you…

ok, so now have correct JID format… now am getting error 409 (conflict) “conflict” is a bit vague, don’'t know what this refers to… I commented out all other code (to create chatroom, etc…) just left code there to connect to server and register new user… still get this 409 error…

I’'m confused now b/c enabled console thing, and looked again in my jabber book (oreilly, pg 212) and I realized this is stream for registering a new user:

only THEN, apparently, do you send uid/pswd info to server… so, questions:

  1. this conflicts with what it says in docs to open acct (that you send uid/psw in that 1st stmt to open acct)

  2. in our system we will connect to server, then do everything “behind the scenes”:

– create new acct

– login user

– connect user to chatroom

– open chatroom window

(that’'s it, no private chats, nothing… this is for a very specific purpose…)

user will not have to type in anything to reg/login… we will pass all that info w/a query string (and convert e-mail add to JID and create a password)

so, can this be done? again thank you very much… any help is much appreciated…

8

Usually, though not always, you can get by with not sending that initial jabber:iq:register packet to the server. Im not sure how Messenger performs in this instance. 409 conflict usually indicates that that username already exists on the server.

9

thank you very much for yr responses and for all your help…

of course once I fixed that malformed-JID error and succeeded in creating acct had to create acct w/new uid every time… again, thank you very much…