SMS messaging

[John Watlington]

As I mentioned earlier to Ankur in a separate email, I believe the
real problem here isn't technically how to connect to the presence  
service,
but rather that the presence service offers no human-usable ID which
is guaranteed to be unique within a school.

wad

On Jul 22, 2008, at 6:08 AM, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:

> Le jeudi 17 juillet 2008 à 15:44 -0400, Ankur Verma a écrit :
>> Hello,
>
> Hi Ankur,
>
>> I am able to receive SMS text messages through a mobile phone  
>> intended
>> to be attached to school server. I need to forward this message to a
>> specific XO connected on the jabber server. At this moment, I have  
>> the
>> message in the format XO_name:SMS_Message. My plan is:
>>
>> 1. Get information (Unfriendly Jabber ID? or Nick?) about all the XOs
>> connected.
>
> As I said last time we discussed this on IRC, that depends what is  
> your
> application exactly:
>
> A) If that's an external application, then you have to connect to the
> jabber server as any client/XO. You'll be able to see all the  
> connected
> XO's that are in your jabber roster. Currently we are using an ugly  
> hack
> called "shared roster" meaning you'll see all the connected XO's  
> but we
> plan to drop it soon.
> A solution could be to use Gadget [1] but we currently don't have  
> API to
> search for buddies based on their alias (that's probably something
> useful to have so we could consider to add one).
> Another solution would be for each buddies to subscribe to your
> application (as a Friend) if they are interested about receiving SMS
> messages but that's not very convenient IMHO.
>
> B) A server plugin. You'll be able to use the server API (and so be  
> able
> to know which buddies are connected, etc) but you'll be depend on a
> server implementation and your app will have to run on the same box as
> the server.
>
> C) A XMPP component. That's generally how XMPP gateways work. People
> will have to explicitly subscribe to your component.
>
> If you choose A. then I strongly suggest you to use Telepathy (Gabble)
> as we already have a nice API you could use instead of dealing with  
> XMPP
> directly.
>
>
> Hope that help.
>
> 	G.
>
>
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Gadget
>
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