AJagucki.log

Martin Bishop recently asked me why he couldn't see my User Tune from the tooltip of my entry in the MUC room occupant list. Naturally, we were both using Psi where PEP info is often displayed in the tooltips of the Contact List entries. I explained to him that some MUC rooms can be configured as anonymous where the JID of the occupants are not exposed. Without the JID of course, you would be hard pressed to figure out a way to determine whose PEP nodes to retrieve, not to mention determine subscriptions and node access models. However, after answering his question I had an interesting idea for an Openfire plugin...

Remember during the stone age when people used IRC? Neither do I, but stay with me. There were many client side scripts that let you type a command and have your currently playing song sent to the channel. In fact, when I used Kopete there was a plugin that did the very same thing, even over Jabber. So, the idea was to provide that same functionality, except server-side instead of client-side and utilizing PEP.

Thus, last night my friends and I came up with an Openfire plugin called PEP in MUC.

Sending one's tune to the room:

Currently you can also send your mood to the room in the same manner. There are some caveats of course. This only works for local users to the server, and by its nature the node access models are not being respected. But since the user themselves are initiating the 'explicit pubsub notification' this latter caveat does not seem like an issue to me.

Grab the plugin for your Openfire server and ... revert back to the stone age?