On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:19:55AM -0500, Jason McIntosh wrote: > I have a question of Jabber programming style. The Jabber-based project > I'm currently working on (http://volity.org) defines a handful of > different Jabber-RPC requests that its clients and servers (all of whom > are simply users, from Jabber's POV) can pass around, forming a > higher-level protocol that rides atop Jabber/XMPP. > > However, since learning more about the core Jabber protocol (I admit > that I started by learning the current MUC and disco JEPs in detail, > and then worked my way inwards thereafter), I'm starting to wonder if > some or perhaps all of these RPC requests should instead happen through > the standard iq/query elements, using namespaces unique to our project. > Many of these project-specific functions are literally information > queries, while others request that the receiving entity attempt to > perform some action on its end. My gut reaction would be to assign the > latter sorts of activities to RPC, but I do notice that Jabber has > things like in-band registration happen through iq elements as well. > > So I could do continue doing everything specific to our project via > RPC, and everything would more or less work fine, but I have to wonder > if it's "more correct" and perhaps even practically better to use query > elements with proper namespaces when possible (in which case I may end > up dropping RPC altogether). Is there a general style guideline for > when an application using Jabber/XMPP as its transport should favor > Jabber-RPC over <iq><query xmlns="http://my.namespace.com/foo"/></iq> > elements, or vice-versa?
I have had similar questions but never really asked anyone. Anyway, I have a project that we started off defining our own namespace and then decided to switch to RPC. That decision was made because it was something that was supported by jabber with a JEP and it would be easy to do some sort of http xmlrpc to jabber xmlrpc if needed. I am wondering what others think about this too. Should someone just use xmlrpc to do remote procedure calls or make up there own namespace? > > -- > Jason McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Somerville, MA, USA http://www.jmac.org > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://jabberstudio.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://jabberstudio.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
