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Had to toss out my XMPP presence hack. Turns out that, at least in Google
Talk, presence info is not sent to clients that have marked themselves
unavailable, and that means the assistant would not see notifications, as it
was nearly always marked unavailable as part of the hack.
I tried writing a test program that uses XMPP personal eventing, only
to find that Google Talk rejected my messages. I'm not 100% sure my
messages were right, but I was directly copying the example in the RFC,
and prosody accepted them. I could not seem to get a list of extensions out
of Google Talk either, so I don't know if it doesn't support personal
eventing, or perhaps only supports certian specific types of events.
So, plan C... using XMPP [presence extended content](http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc6121.html#presence-extended).
The assistant generates a presence message tagged "xa" (Extended Away),
which hopefully will make it not seem present to clients.
And to that presence message, I add my own XML element:
<git-annex xmlns='git-annex' push="uuid,uuid" />
This is all entirely legal, and not at all a hack.
(Aside from this not really being presence info.) Isn't XML fun?
And plan C works, with Google Talk, and prosody. I've successfully gotten
push notifications flowing over XMPP!
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Spent some hours dealing with an unusual probolem: git-annex started
segfaulting intermittently on startup with the new XMPP code.
Haskell code is not supposed to segfault..
I think this was probably due to not using a bound thread for XMPP,
so if haskell's runtime system recheduled its green thread onto a different
OS thread during startup, when it's setting up TLS, it'd make gnuTLS very
unhappy.
So, fixed it to use a bound thread. Will wait and see if the crash is gone.
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Re-enabled DBUS support, using a new version of the library that avoids the
memory leak. Will need further changes to the library to support
reconnecting to dbus.
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Next will be a webapp configuration UI for XMPP. Various parts of the
webapp will direct the user to set up XMPP, when appropriate, especially
when the user sets up a cloud remote.
To make XMPP sufficiently easy to configure, I need to check SRV records to
find the XMPP server, which is an unexpected PITA because `getaddrinfo`
can't do that. There are several haskell DNS libraries that I could use for
SRV, or I could use the `host` command:
`host -t SRV _xmpp-client._tcp.gmail.com` (but don't run that on Solaris,
it changes the hostname..)
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