How to get Archived Messages

Heya,

@zorn-v Thanks for extending this repo!

While - getMessages() serves the purpose of getting Offline Messages - #1

How does one get messages from the archives?

Appreciate pointers on this.

Thanks!

What do you mean by "archive" ? Any specification link or maybe example ?

Currently, the messages are delivered "only" if the user is online, else they are stored as offline messages (which by the way, goes in an endless loop while retrieving when I tried the while loop method you had mentioned.) XMPP has Message Archive Management support, that stores messages in the DB. https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html Which is essential while building a chat application, to retrieve and show the historical messages. Please let me know if I need to provide any other information. Appreciate your work and response! Thank you

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which by the way, goes in an endless loop while retrieving when I tried the while loop method you had mentioned.

My assumption is that client must inform server that it received those messages, but maybe it just a bug.

Need a time to test and debug offline messages then.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 5:08 AM zorn-v ***@***.***> wrote: which by the way, goes in an endless loop while retrieving when I tried the while loop method you had mentioned. My assumption is that client must inform server that it received those messages, but maybe it just a bug. Need a time to test and debug offline messages then. —

I believe ejabberd just offloads the offline messages to the connected client and then moves them to archive when mam is enabled. While the endless loop gets fixed with the method I mentioned in the previous issue, the mam still needs support. As the archives maintain every single chat between users. Please let me know how I can help contribute. Thanks

Please let me know how I can help contribute.

You can play around here. When message stanza received it in $msgNode which type is http://php.net/domnode

xmpp/src/Client.php

Line 219 in 639626d

$msgNode = $event->getParameter(0);

Here is attach event on incoming message

xmpp/src/Client.php

Line 120 in 639626d

    
           $inputEventManager->attach('{jabber:client}message', [$this, 'processMessage']);

Here you can investigate type of event to attach ({jabber:client}message in case of incoming <message> for example)

xmpp/src/Stream/XMLStream.php

Line 359 in 639626d

list($event, $startTag, $param) = $event;