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. `user@example.com/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:

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. 
```
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
```

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. `myfriend@example.com/home`)
 *body* : [String] message to be sent
 *type* : [String] should only be among the permitted values of `type` for xmpp message stanza

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.