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summary: Delegate roster management to an external service |
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*NOTE: THIS MODULE IS RELEASED UNDER THE MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE VERSION 2.* |
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Normally the XMPP server will store and maintain the users' contact |
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rosters. This module lets you delegate roster management to an external |
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Prosody will make an HTTP request to fetch the roster from the external |
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service. The service will need to notify Prosody whenever a user's roster |
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changes, so that Prosody can fetch a new roster for that user. |
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## Configuring this module |
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This module relies on `mod_storage_memory` and `mod_block_subscriptions`. |
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In `.parts/prosody/etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua`, where your particular |
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`VirtualHost` is being configured, add the following: |
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modules_enabled = { |
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"http_roster_admin", |
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"block_subscriptions", |
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"storage_memory", |
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"http_files" |
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} |
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modules_disabled = { |
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-- Prosody will get the roster from the backend app, |
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-- so we disable the default roster module. |
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"roster" |
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} |
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storage = { roster = "memory" } |
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http_roster_url = "http://localhost/contacts/%s" -- %s will be replaced by an URL-encoded username |
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The `http_roster_url` parameter needs to be configured to point to the |
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URL in the backend application which returns users' contacts rosters. |
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In this URL, the pattern `%s` is replaced by an URL-encoded username. |
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When the user *john* then connects to Prosody, and `http_roster_url` is |
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set to “http://app.example.org/contacts/%s”, then Prosody will make a |
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GET request to http://app.example.org/contacts/john |
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## Protocol |
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### Fetching rosters (Prosody to web app) |
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Prosody considers the web application to always hold the most accurate and up-to-date |
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version of the user's roster. When a user first connects, Prosody fetches the roster |
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from the web application and caches it internally. |
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Prosody will make a GET request to the URL specified in Prosody's configuration parameter |
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'http_roster_url'. In this URL, the pattern '%s' is replaced by an URL-encoded username. |
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For example, when the user 'john' connects to Prosody, and http_roster_url is set |
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to "http://app.example.com/contacts/%s", Prosody will make a GET request to "http://app.example.com/contacts/john". |
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The web app must return a JSON object, where each key is the JID of a contact, and the corresponding |
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value is data about that contact. |
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If the user 'john' has friends 'marie' and 'michael', the web app would return a HTTP '200 OK' response |
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with the following contents: |
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"marie@example.com": { |
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"name": "Marie" |
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"michael@example.com": { |
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"name": "Michael" |
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} |
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### Notifying Prosody of roster changes |
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The external service needs to notify Prosody whenever a user's roster |
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changes. To do this, it must make an HTTP POST request to either: |
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- http://localhost:5280/roster_admin/refresh |
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- https://localhost:5281/roster_admin/refresh |
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Make sure that the "http_files" module is enabled in Prosody's configuration, |
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for the above URLs to served. |
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Ports 5280/5281 can be firewalled and the web server (i.e. Apache or Nginx) |
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can be configured to reverse proxy those URLs to for example |
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The contents of the POST should be a JSON encoded array of usernames whose |
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contact list and aaron’s contact lists have changed: |
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When the operation is complete Prosody will reply with a summary of the |
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- **status**: either “ok” (success) or “error” (operation completely failed) |
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- **message**: A human-readable message (for logging and debugging purposes) |
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- **updated**: The number of rosters successfully updated |
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- **errors**: The number of rosters that failed to update |
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Prosody may also return status codes `400` or `500` in case of errors (such |
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as a missing/malformed body). |