On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Bernd Fondermann
<bernd.fonderm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:47, Boniface Millian
> <boniface.mill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Bernd Fondermann
>> <bernd.fonderm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 21:27, Bernd Fondermann
>>> <bernd.fonderm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 17:41, Boniface Millian
>>>> <boniface.mill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am playing with Vysper and I stumbled upon the StanzaSessionContext
>>>>> class which is described as "a session running in the server VM based
>>>>> on using Vysper's built-in {@link
>>>>> org.apache.vysper.xmpp.stanza.Stanza} object. this is an unconvential
>>>>> use, it does not rely on a network connection."
>>>>>
>>>>> AFAIU, this class might be used to implement a client that
>>>>> communicates directly with the server using the Java API.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is very interesting because such a feature might be used to
>>>>> implement a system that integrates Vysper and uses it to deliver
>>>>> messages (e.g., notifications) to the client connected to the server.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I tried to the following thing: start a simple Vysper server,
>>>>> connect to it via some Pidgin clients and use a StanzaSessionContext
>>>>> to programmatically send messages to the connected (Pidgin) clients.
>>>>>
>>>>> To be more specific, after server.start() I initialize a
>>>>> StanzaSessionContext:
>>>>>
>>>>> ServerRuntimeContext context = server.getServerRuntimeContext();
>>>>> StanzaSessionFactory ssf = new StanzaSessionFactory();
>>>>> ssf.setServerRuntimeContext(context);
>>>>> StanzaSession session = ssf.createNewSession();
>>>>>
>>>>> And then I start to periodically send messages to "us...@vysper.org":
>>>>>
>>>>> session.send(StanzaBuilder.createMessageStanza(server.getServerRuntimeContext().getServerEnitity(),
>>>>> EntityImpl.parse("us...@vysper.org"), "en", "Hello!").build());
>>>>>
>>>>> I connect with Pidging as us...@vysper.org but no messages are ever
>>>>> received.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also activated the DEBUG level logging and I noticed that
>>>>> session.send(...) doesn't generate any message. I suspect that there
>>>>> are other steps that must be performed in order to have a functional
>>>>> local StanzaSession.
>>>>
>>>> you're right. you need to complete the full XMPP handshake as defined
>>>> by the XMPP RFCs.
>>>
>> Thanks for your answer...
>>
>> Indeed, by sending some stanzas as it's done in the
>> org.apache.vysper.stanzasession.StanzaSessionTestCase.testHandshake()
>> makes the server respond.
>>
>> Basically I would need to re-implement all protocol interactions that
>> are needed for implementing my use-cases. Which is quite painful
>> considering that all these interactions are already available in
>> libraries like Smack, if socket communication is used :)
>
> Painful? Well, I don't know. Coding is fun, isn't it?
>
Actually it is (fun) :)
> You could record all the stanzas as text, as sent by a remote Smack
> client (in a text file, for example) and just replay them to the
> StanzaSession instance.
>
> Anyway, alternatively you could employ Smack within the Server JVM, too.
>
Well, the point was to avoid to use the TCP/IP stack when the server
is accessible via method calls.
Thanks,
B
> Bernd
