Spark removing some of my custom tags/attributes

Spark Spark Dev
1

Hi,

I am writing a plugin to filter some custom headline messages.

I built a filter as specified in the plugin guidelines, but before reaching the filter, apparently spark removes some information from my messages, because i see them arriving correct (with wireshark) and when i print message.toXML() i see missing fields.

E.g. 1:

text1

text2

prints:

text2

E.g. 2:

prints:

I didn’t want to put my hands on the core.

Do you have any suggestion?

Thanks

2

I was wrong, the first error is even worse!

E.g. 1:

text1

text2

prints:

text2

Please help!

3

Hey Evil,

Spark uses Smack behind the scenes to read/parse and send XMPP stanzas. Smack will basically parse only known extensions and will try to do the best with unknown but that usually means just text values in a Map (aka Dictionary). In order to correctly parse your new mytag element you will need to register a new PacketExtensionProvider in Spark so that it can be used by Smack to parse and create the correct packet extension. Check out the Provider Architecture documentation for more information.

4

Thank you very much!

For quite some days I did some experiment, changing my tags to be sure it wasn’t a namespace conflict, then i started going through the code, and, funny thing, today last thing i read before leaving office was PacketExtensionProvider, and I said: maybe tomorrow i could see the light with that

Good to have a confirmation from you.

By the way, since i will read the documentation tomorrow, little anticipation: i can do it from my plugin, right?

P.S. A general request: since there are still people developing spark, is it possibile to fix the numerous broken link and missing files about Spark plugins, please?

Thank you again Gato

5

Creating a Provider for the kind of new extension parsed it correctly