Setting up Component::External

[Martin Atkins]

Guillermo Roditi wrote:
> 
>> The above is roughly equivalent to:
>> <VHost example.com>
>>      <Plugin DJabberd::Delivery::Local />
>>      <Subdomain aim>
>>          <Plugin DJabberd::Component::External>
>>              ListenPort 5270
>>              Secret some_secret
>>          </Plugin>
>>      </Subdomain>
>> </VHost>
> 
> Yeah. the config stuff is nice, but unfortunately I went the other
> route since my config would have to be updated a whole lot otherwise.
> I just pull all my vhost info from the database now  since it's
> easier.
> 

If nothing else, your question has reminded me that there should 
probably be a nicer way to do the above with the API. I guess the most 
obvious parallel to the configuration file would be 
$vhost->create_subdomain($aim) which does the necessary configuration 
and returns a DJabberd::VHost. Should probably get rid of the remants of 
the old and broken "subdomain" support as well, since it's confusing.

>> It's probably also worth noting that as you've written this, with it
>> creating a new AIM component each time, only the first will actually
>> work because they'll all independently try to listen on the same port.
>> For it to work, you'll need to run each instance on a separate port and
>> connect one pyAIMt to each.
> 
> Right, I get it. Hmmm that sucks. Too bad I can't have all the vhosts
> share a single component like I do with RosterStorage, Delivery, and
> Authen, or can I? I have no objection to some gritty devel work if
> necessary. I don't really want to run 200 connections to PyAIMt (i
> have about 220 or so VHosts with a few users each, all very low
> traffic)

Even in the RosterStorage and Delivery cases you usually have one 
instance per vhost, though I guess with some of them you can probably 
get away with sharing because their ->register() methods just register 
hooks (with closures) and don't store anything in $self. That's not 
really by design, though.

Component::External could potentially be a bit more clever about how it 
manages its sockets, and not have such a strong connection between one 
listen socket and a particular VHost. It'd just have to maintain some 
global (rather than per-instance) state and then dispatch to the right 
instance based on the hostname given in the stream element once the 
component connects. I wasn't actually aware that pyAIMt was able to 
serve multiple domains with a single running instance, though. Can this 
be done, or would you have to run 200 instances of PyAIMt anyway?

(I must admit I don't know much about PyAIMt; I run it on my personal, 
low-traffic DJabberd instance, but I've not really looked at it in any 
great detail.)

> If you use IRC I can often be found in #POE (irc.perl.org) as groditi,
> so feel free to hit me up if you'd like to discuss the POE thing. I
> would love to see DJabberD play nicely alongside POE. I never was able
> to figure out how to integrate my own events and event handlers etc.
> into Danga::Socket so I never got to use a lot of the Danga code I
> wanted to try out.

I haven't been looking at it for a few days since I've been a little 
unwell, but hopefully I should be able to get back into it soon. I'll 
bear this in mind if I get stuck. Thanks!