Bots, components, etc.

[Gavin Carr]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:44:17PM +0000, Martin Atkins wrote:
> Gavin Carr wrote:
> >>I'm not really all that familiar with the bot code, but a quick scan of 
> >>the DJabberd::Bot class suggests to me that it doesn't support 
> >>responding to presence subscription requests.
> >>
> >>I suspect this is because LiveJournal's bot -- really the only sane bot 
> >>implementation right now -- is hardcoded into LiveJournal's 
> >>RosterStorage implementation. Adding some code to make bots 
> >>automatically respond to subscription requests ought not to be too hard, 
> >>though.
> >
> >Thanks, that sounds correct to me. I'm still getting my head around how
> >djabberd hangs together, so not sure my djabberd-fu is up to it just yet,
> >but if no one beats me to it I'm might try and figure this out.
> 
> I just checked in a change to DJabberd::Bot which makes all bots respond 
> automatically to roster subscriptions.
> 
> However, the way bots are implemented is a complete hack and so I'm not 
> sure that this'll work properly in all cases. Ideally we'd rethink the 
> way clients are represented in DJabberd so that bots can actually be 
> fully-fledged clients rather than the "thing that happens to have some 
> of the methods that clients normally have" that they are now.
> 
> Earlier today I also checked in API documentation for 
> DJabberd::Component and the classes related to that, which you may find 
> useful.

Fantastic, I'll update and have a play tomorrow. Thanks.

Cheers,
Gavin