Subj : Re: Remote sysop paging dev questions
To   : Ragnarok
From : echicken
Date : Fri Sep 07 2018 07:24 pm

  Re: Re: Remote sysop paging dev questions
  By: Ragnarok to Razor on Fri Sep 07 2018 19:21:28

 Ra> i search for javascript xmmp libraries but all are implement for web
 Ra> browsers. I can not find one for use in sync js engine.

With some exceptions (implementations of algorithms, etc.) it's hard to find
existing JS libraries that are *easily* adapted for use with Synchronet.  The
more complex it gets, the more you're cannibalizing a few functions and
rewriting socket, fs, etc. stuff for this environment.

XMPP being what it is, you'd either need to find a library that uses E4X (the
XML parser/handler available to us) or bring in a new XML parser.

Not sure how many people are using XMPP these days (could be lots for all I
know).  I killed my Jabber server at work a couple of years ago in favour of
other chat tools, so I no longer have an XMPP client running all the time.  I
do my paging/sysop chat over IRC since I do have a client open for that.

 Ra> my idea es very simple
 Ra> when the user login to the bbs. run the "jabber sysop client magic
 Ra> module" and it can call to sysop. the door connecct to the "python
 Ra> daemon" and send message to sysop link
 Ra> "Pirulo is paging you"

If the intent is only to page via XMPP there may be simpler ways to do it than
implementing the whole protocol:

1) A JS module that does just enough XMPP to connect to a server, authenticate,
and send a message

2) Use an XMPP server that offers some hooks for external messages (has a web
API or something that clients can send messages through)

3) Run an XMPP bot external to your BBS, but build something into it that a
script from your BBS can communicate with (some simple socket service, a web
API, whatever); there are plenty of bot libraries kicking around

Options 2 & 3 are probably easiest overall, option 3 being the most likely.

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