On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Philipp Hancke <fi...@goodadvice.pages.de> wrote: > Am 25.11.2015 um 07:55 schrieb Daniel Dormont: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have an XMPP-enabled web application. In that I have several screens >> where a user may see a list of names of several other users. I would >> like that user to be able to see, in near-real time, basic presence >> information for all of those names. >> >> Right now I've implemented that by sending presence subscriptions to >> all the names on the list minus those that are already on the current >> user's roster. Then I've configured my client on the other end to >> automatically and silently accept all presence subscriptions. >> >> This works, but it seems a bit heavy-handed. In particular, it means >> that the user will continue to get presence updates for everyone whose >> name has ever popped up on one of these screens, whereas I only really >> care about the screen they're on right now, which will typically have >> no more than, say, 30 or so names. >> >> One idea I had was to keep the approach I have but periodically drop >> contacts from the roster who haven't been accessed in a while. But >> that data isn't there anywhere in the roster-related information that >> I can see (I use ejabberd). So I'd have to modify the server to >> incorporate that. >> >> Does this seem like a crazy idea? How else might I approach this problem? > > > Create a MUC room for every screen and join / leave it as appropriate. Then > display the room roster in place of the users roster you currently have. > Much easier :-)
Hm, that's clever but I realize I may have misstated the situation a bit. The user doesn't merely need to know whether those other contacts are looking at the same screen as they are. He/she needs to know whether they're online at all > _______________________________________________ > JDev mailing list > Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > Unsubscribe: jdev-unsubscr...@jabber.org > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: jdev-unsubscr...@jabber.org _______________________________________________
