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Rename README to README.markdown
author | JC Brand <jcbrand@minddistrict.com> |
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date | Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:55:07 +0000 |
parents | 2309:feebb38c670d |
children | 2311:73967121cf5e |
files | mod_http_roster_admin/README mod_http_roster_admin/README.markdown |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mod_http_roster_admin/README Fri Sep 23 16:23:14 2016 +0200 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,91 +0,0 @@ -mod_http_roster_admin -===================== - -NOTE: THIS MODULE IS RELEASED UNDER THE MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE VERSION 2. - -Normally the XMPP server will store and maintain the users' contact -rosters. This module lets you delegate roster management to an external -service. - -Prosody will make an HTTP request to fetch the roster from the external -service. The service will need to notify Prosody whenever a user's roster -changes, so that Prosody can fetch a new roster for that user. - -Configuring this module ------------------------ - -This module relies on `mod_storage_memory` and `mod_block_subscriptions`. - -In `.parts/prosody/etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua`, where your particular -`VirtualHost` is being configured, add the following: - - modules_enabled = { - "http_roster_admin", - "block_subscriptions", - "storage_memory", - "http_files" - } - modules_disabled = { - -- Prosody will get the roster from the backend app, - -- so we disable the default roster module. - "roster" - } - storage = { roster = "memory" } - http_roster_url = "http://localhost/contacts/%s" -- %s will be replaced by an URL-encoded username - -The `http_roster_url` parameter needs to be configured to point to the -URL in the backend application which returns users' contacts rosters. - -In this URL, the pattern `%s` is replaced by an URL-encoded username. - -When the user *john* then connects to Prosody, and `http_roster_url` is -set to “http://app.example.org/contacts/%s”, then Prosody will make a -GET request to http://app.example.org/contacts/john - -Notifying Prosody of roster changes -*********************************** - -The external service needs to notify Prosody whenever a user's roster -changes. To do this, it must make an HTTP POST request to either: - -* http://localhost:5280/roster_admin/refresh -* https://localhost:5281/roster_admin/refresh - -Make sure that the "http_files" module is enabled in Prosody's configuration, -for the above URLs to served. - -Ports 5280/5281 can be firewalled and the web server (i.e. Apache or Nginx) -can be configured to reverse proxy those URLs to for example -https://example.org/http-bind. - -The contents of the POST should be a JSON encoded array of usernames whose -rosters have changed. - -For example, if user ‘john’ became friends with ‘aaron’, both john’s -contact list and aaron’s contact lists have changed: - -``` - ["john", "aaron"] -``` - -When the operation is complete Prosody will reply with a summary of the -operation - a JSON object containing: - -* **status**: either “ok” (success) or “error” (operation completely failed) -* **message**: A human-readable message (for logging and debugging purposes) -* **updated**: The number of rosters successfully updated -* **errors**: The number of rosters that failed to update - -Example: - -``` - { - "status": "ok", - "message": "roster update complete", - "updated": 2, - "errors": 0 - } -``` - -Prosody may also return status codes `400` or `500` in case of errors (such -as a missing/malformed body).
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/mod_http_roster_admin/README.markdown Wed Sep 28 14:55:07 2016 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +mod_http_roster_admin +===================== + +NOTE: THIS MODULE IS RELEASED UNDER THE MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE VERSION 2. + +Normally the XMPP server will store and maintain the users' contact +rosters. This module lets you delegate roster management to an external +service. + +Prosody will make an HTTP request to fetch the roster from the external +service. The service will need to notify Prosody whenever a user's roster +changes, so that Prosody can fetch a new roster for that user. + +Configuring this module +----------------------- + +This module relies on `mod_storage_memory` and `mod_block_subscriptions`. + +In `.parts/prosody/etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua`, where your particular +`VirtualHost` is being configured, add the following: + + modules_enabled = { + "http_roster_admin", + "block_subscriptions", + "storage_memory", + "http_files" + } + modules_disabled = { + -- Prosody will get the roster from the backend app, + -- so we disable the default roster module. + "roster" + } + storage = { roster = "memory" } + http_roster_url = "http://localhost/contacts/%s" -- %s will be replaced by an URL-encoded username + +The `http_roster_url` parameter needs to be configured to point to the +URL in the backend application which returns users' contacts rosters. + +In this URL, the pattern `%s` is replaced by an URL-encoded username. + +When the user *john* then connects to Prosody, and `http_roster_url` is +set to “http://app.example.org/contacts/%s”, then Prosody will make a +GET request to http://app.example.org/contacts/john + +Notifying Prosody of roster changes +*********************************** + +The external service needs to notify Prosody whenever a user's roster +changes. To do this, it must make an HTTP POST request to either: + +* http://localhost:5280/roster_admin/refresh +* https://localhost:5281/roster_admin/refresh + +Make sure that the "http_files" module is enabled in Prosody's configuration, +for the above URLs to served. + +Ports 5280/5281 can be firewalled and the web server (i.e. Apache or Nginx) +can be configured to reverse proxy those URLs to for example +https://example.org/http-bind. + +The contents of the POST should be a JSON encoded array of usernames whose +rosters have changed. + +For example, if user ‘john’ became friends with ‘aaron’, both john’s +contact list and aaron’s contact lists have changed: + +``` + ["john", "aaron"] +``` + +When the operation is complete Prosody will reply with a summary of the +operation - a JSON object containing: + +* **status**: either “ok” (success) or “error” (operation completely failed) +* **message**: A human-readable message (for logging and debugging purposes) +* **updated**: The number of rosters successfully updated +* **errors**: The number of rosters that failed to update + +Example: + +``` + { + "status": "ok", + "message": "roster update complete", + "updated": 2, + "errors": 0 + } +``` + +Prosody may also return status codes `400` or `500` in case of errors (such +as a missing/malformed body).