node-bosh-xmpp

Motivation

Are you using node-xmpp for XMPP? But get blocked by coorperate firewalls? Then node-bosh-xmpp is API compatible with node-xmpp and gives you the ability to use XMPP over a standard HTTP port.

Credits go to Anoopc

I was looking for a BOSH XMPP client for node and came accross Anoop's node-xmpp-via-bosh implementation. His code was not completely working for me so I forked his code and fixed the issue I was having. I wanted to be able to specify the URL of the BOSH server and I also had some issues with the authorization proces.

Installation instructions

npm install node-bosh-xmpp-client

Code instructions

Following you will find the documentation from Anoop which I updated to reflect my changes:

It is inspired by node-xmpp (https://github.com/astro/node-xmpp) and xmppjs(http://github.com/mwild1/xmppjs) and it is API compatible with node-xmpp (except for the constructor).

It is an xmpp library which lets you establish a persistent session to xmpp server via a bosh-server and communicate willingly.

Documentation for API

• Constructor: Client(jid, password, bosh, route)

    Parameters:  
    
        *jid*       : [String] jabber id of user (e.g. `[email protected]/office`)  
        *password*  : [String] password  
        *bosh*      : [String] url of the bosh-server (e.g. `http://localhost:5280/http-bind/`)  
        *route*     : [String] route attribute [if used] for connecting to xmpp server  
    Return Value:  
  
        new Client Object having following properties:  
  

  1. Event-emitter for the following events

     online Event-listener: function callback()

     error Event-listener: function callback(exception)

      `exception[String]` is the description of error
     

     offline Event-listener: function callback(condition)

      `condition[String]` is the description of reason for being offline
     

     stanza Event-listener: function callback(stanza)

      `stanza[Object]` is the ltx xml element. 
     

  2. Function: send(stanza)

     enqueues the stanza into the pending array to be sent to bosh-server on next Tick parameters:

      *stanza* : [Object] ltx xml Element object
     

  3. Function: sendMessage(to, body, type = "chat")

     sends a message 'body' to jid 'to' with type set to 'type'

     parameters:

      *to*   : [String] jid of receiver(e.g. `[email protected]/home`)
      *body* : [String] message to be sent
      *type* : [String] should only be among the permitted values of `type` for xmpp message stanza
     

  4. Function: disconnect()

     sends immediately any pending stanzas, ends the stream by sending terminate packet.

• Constructor Element(xname, attrs)

    alias to `ltx.Element` Constructor
  

• Function: $build(xname, attrs)

    an alias for `new ltx.Element(xname, attrs)`
    
    Parameters:
    
    	*xname* : [string] name for the xml element
    	*attrs* : [Object] containing all the attributes to set up
    	
    Return value:
    
    	a new ltx.Element object
  

• Function: $msg(attrs)

    an alias for `new ltx.Element("message", attrs)`
    
    Parameters:
    
    	*attrs* : [Object] containing all the attributes to set up
    	
    Return value:
    
    	a new ltx.Element object
  

• Function: $iq(attrs)

    an alias for `new ltx.Element("iq", attrs)`
    
    Parameters:
    
    	attrs : [Object] containing all the attributes to set up
    	
    Return value:
    
    	a new ltx.Element object
  

• Function: $pres(attrs)

    an alias for `new ltx.Element("presence", attrs)`
    
    Parameters:
    
    	*attrs* : [Object] containing all the attributes to set up
    	
    Return value:
    
    	a new ltx.Element object
  

• Function: setLogLevel(logLevel)

    sets the logLevel for module (use only when in serious problem i.e. debug mode).
    
    Parameters:
    
    	*logLevel* : [String] permissible values:
    	
    	       *FATAL*	:	displays nothing [default]
    		   *ERROR*	:	displays error messages
    		   *INFO*	:	informs about important events
    		   *DEBUG*	:	prints each packet sent and received
  

Shout outs

Shout outs go to the Webinos project. They provided the time and need to make this fix.