Presence probes

Openfire Openfire Dev
1

AFAIK external components should be able to probe the presence of any registered user. However when I try to do this from an externa component I get a forbidden error like this one:

I think I’'ve found the problem here, in the handleProbe method of PresenceManagerImpl:

Roster roster = rosterManager.getRoster(username);

RosterItem item = roster.getRosterItem(packet.getFrom());

if (item.getSubStatus() == RosterItem.SUB_FROM

item.getSubStatus() == RosterItem.SUB_BOTH) {

probePresence(packet.getFrom(), packet.getTo());

}

else {

PacketError.Condition error = PacketError.Condition.not_authorized;

if ((item.getSubStatus() == RosterItem.SUB_NONE &&

item.getRecvStatus() != RosterItem.RECV_SUBSCRIBE)

(item.getSubStatus() == RosterItem.SUB_TO &&

item.getRecvStatus() != RosterItem.RECV_SUBSCRIBE)) {

error = PacketError.Condition.forbidden;

}

Presence presenceToSend = new Presence();

presenceToSend.setError(error);

presenceToSend.setTo(packet.getFrom());

presenceToSend.setFrom(packet.getTo());

deliverer.deliver(presenceToSend);

}

Accordingly to this code only users in the roster are allowed to probe presence, instead also components should be able too

2

Your best bet would be to create an AdHoc command which would return the user’'s presence there are several good examples of AdHoc commands inside of the Wildfire code. I would recommend looking at the GetUsersPresence command specifically.

Thanks,

Alex

3

Indeed that’‘s what I’‘m doing For me there are no problems since I’'m writing the component by myself and I can decide which is the best way to probe presence information.

I was pointing out the problem since there may be other external components relying on this, and it would be annoying to do strange hacks in order to install them

bye