[Devel] Re: [Users] new set of modules: presence user agent client implementations

[Klaus Darilion]

Hi Daniel!

This looks like great features.

One comment about your sample config:

	if( is_method("PUBLISH|SUBSCRIBE|NOTIFY"))
			route(2);

Why send you NOTIFY to route 2 where they will discarded?

regards
klaus

Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> during last week a new set of modules have been introduced to CVS 
> repository. They are prefixed with 'pua'  which stands for 'presesece 
> user agent'. There is one module actually having the name 'pua', which 
> implements the common API needed by other modules from this category.
> 
> At this moment there are two modules which behave as presence user agent 
> for user location records (pua_usrloc) and presence user agent for 
> external applications which can use new management interface (MI - via 
> FIFO file or XMLRPC) to publish details -- this module is named pua_mi. 
> Next step in this direction will be implementation of PUA for xmpp.
> 
> With pua_usrloc module you can configure OpenSER to publish 
> online/offline status in behalf of SIP devices registered to OpenSER but 
> not supporting presence extensions. The users which have phones 
> supporting presence extension can see if the other users are registered 
> or not.
> 
> pua_mi module is one very interesting. It enables external applications 
> to publish presence information, through a FIFO file or XMLRPC at this 
> moment. In this way, basically one adds SIMPLE support to whatever they 
> need in a easy and comfortable manner. PUBLISH support is there, 
> SUBSCRIBE is implemented but needs an outward communication channel from 
> OpenSER while MI is inward.
> 
> Having two new features in place (the MI and SIMPLE/Presence stuff), I 
> though it may be more appealing to start trying and testing if some 
> examples are made available. Therefore I created a dokuwiki page where 
> you can find two shell scripts along with OpenSER configuration file.
> 
> http://openser.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/presence:pua-modules
> 
> One of the shell scripts publishes details from operating system: logged 
> in users (U), system CPU usage(C), free memory (M) and load average (L).
> 
> The other one publishes details gathered from OpenSER statistics: 
> processed SIP requests (R), active transactions (T) and user location 
> records (U).
> 
> I think they are good examples to start with. I made two screenshots of 
> XLite v3.0 subscribed to such presence information.
> http://www.openser.org/downloads/presence/xlite-openser-system.jpg
> http://www.openser.org/downloads/presence/xlite-openser-stats.jpg
> 
> Readme files for these new modules:
> http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/1.2.x/pua.html
> http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/1.2.x/pua_mi.html
> http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/1.2.x/pua_usrloc.html
> 
> We have a lot of new code in place, the testing is a very appreciated 
> help you can give.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
> 
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Klaus Darilion
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