Not all Jabber implementations support setProperty/getProperty?

Smack Smack Dev
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Hi,

I am using OpenIM as the server.

I try to send a message with a property :

msg.setProperty(“prop”, new SomeSerializableObject());

When the other end receives the message, the entire “properties” section (in XML) is out.

Here is the SENT log for the sender:

ariane-rpcmessagerO0ABXNyACxjb20ubmVvcGVhay5zbWFjay5BdmFpbGFiaWxpdHlSZXF1ZXN0 TWVzc2FnZQVHZkdZv/pAAgAEWgALX2Nvbm5lY3RpbmdJAAlfbnVtUm9vbXNMAAhfY2hlY2tJbnQAEExq YXZhL3V0aWwvRGF0ZTtMAAlfY2hlY2tPdXRxAH4AAXhwAQAAAApzcgAOamF2YS51dGlsLkRhdGVoaoEB S1l0GQMAAHhwdwgAAAD7fh3S3HhzcQBAAN3CAAAAPtHdLceA==

Here is the RECEIVED log for the other end:

<message to=’‘hotel@localhost/Smack’’ from=’‘webapp@localhost/Smack’’>ariane-rpc

Seems like OpenIM hides the properties section in the xml message.

Is this possible ? I thought that Jabber implementations didn’'t process the content of messages… was I wrong ?

Is Packet.setProperty and getProperty mechanism reliable and supported on every server ?

Thanks in advance.

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This would be a bug in the OpenIM server. An XMPP server is supposed to pass the entire packet through and not just the parts it understands.

Regards,

Matt

3

It seems like openIM actually modifies the original message.

So OpenIM is not standard-compliant.

Nice to know.

I tried with jabberd 1.4 and everything works fine!

4

Hi,

im having exactly the same problem with OpenIM. My Problem is, i really want to run a java server, so im kind of stuck with OpenIm. Is there another way to transfer small files from one client to another? It is actually an xml file that i want to send, but i’'d like to send it as a file and not write the whole xml file to a string and then send it as a normal text message and then convert the string again back into an xml.

Any thoughts ?

Cheers for any help!

tom

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Why not use Jive Messenger? There are also several other Java commercial servers.

If OpenIM doesn’‘t pass along custom XML elements in messages, it’'s totally non-compliant and not even worth using as a server.

Regards,

Matt

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Thanks matt, actually your right, the reason why i’'m using OpenIM is:

-its free

-its open source

-it was really easy to install, e.g. i didn’'t have to set up a database to use it

but if i cant solve the problem tomorrow, i think i’'ll change the server…

Cheers,

tom