Re: [sr-dev] git:master: modules_k/presence: RFC 4827 (presence hard-state) support

Hi Peter, Nice work with this patch. I have looked through it and I have some observations. First of all, an implementation of this RFC already existed even in Kamailio :) . I knew I coded it, but was not sure if before or after the split, but I looked now and it is present in kamailio also. In the README check after pidf_manipulation: http://git.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=sip-router;a=blob;f=modules_… The implementation that I've done is very different from yours. In some aspects I like your solution better. Analyzing both, I thought at a way of combining them and making the best solution for this. In any case, I don't think it is ok to keep them both in this state as it will be a bit confusing for someone reading the documentation. The good think about my solution was that I left the XCAP document fetch part in *presence_xml* module. I think it is better like this because the *presence* module remains independent of the XCAP part. And more than this, it works for both integrated and not integrated XCAP server ( because it uses the generic API of fetching XCAP documents) and even for any event (not only presence). The code for fetching the file is at line *473*: http://git.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=sip-router;a=blob;f=modules_… The bad thing about my implementation was that I put the fetching of this file when aggregating the presence documents. So a query in xcap table ( for integrated xcap server) was actually performed each time a Notify was sent out. Here I like better that you have fetched the document and stored it in presentity table with expires -1. As for the fact that you added a new function to be called from the script when to fetch and store this document (pres_update_presentity), I think it would have been better to use the existing *pres_refresh_watchers* function. If you look in the documentation, actually when type!= 0 , a pidf manipulation document change might be expected: http://git.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=sip-router;a=blob;f=modules_… The reason why it is better to use this function is that it is actually called by the refereshWatchers MI command and we will maintain the compatibility with other external XCAP servers that use this MI command. We can also put a specific type, let's say type=2 for pidf manipulation document change and type=1 for presentity table change. Considering this the solution that I see best is the following: When *pres_refresh_watchers* is called with**type=*2* , try to fetch the pidf manipulation document from xcap server and if found, store it in presentity table with expires=-1 (as you have done). The only thing that I would change is to use a wrapper over *get_rules_doc* function from presence_xml module. We can do this adding a new field in the pres_ev_t structure (exactly as get_rules_doc field). Then continue with the query_db_notify(pres, ev, NULL) function which will also be called if type=1. And to maintain compatibility for refereshWatchers function we can call from here pres_referesh_watchers with type=2, considering that also a pidf manipulation document The only thing that I don't know is how to keep from your implementation is the possibility for a user to have multiple pidf documents. I saw that you use the URL to fetch from xcap table and the file name as ETAG to offer the possibility of storing multiple pidf documents. However my question is actually whether this use case is actually possible? Why would a user have more permanent state documents at the same time? Let me know your thoughts about this. Regards, Anca On 04/10/2012 08:09 PM, Peter Dunkley wrote: