From f9cd051209e765c338d3c0e7ed4b3638e89b4a01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lance Stout Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:00:54 -0500 Subject: Add echo component briefing. --- docs/getting_started/component.rst | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/getting_started/component.rst b/docs/getting_started/component.rst index ca9ec066..ce548ba4 100644 --- a/docs/getting_started/component.rst +++ b/docs/getting_started/component.rst @@ -1,2 +1,75 @@ +.. _echocomponent: + +================================= Create and Run a Server Component ================================= + +.. note:: + + If you have any issues working through this quickstart guide + or the other tutorials here, please either send a message to the + `mailing list `_ + or join the chat room at `sleek@conference.jabber.org + `_. + +If you have not yet installed SleekXMPP, do so now by either checking out a version +from `Github `_, or installing it using ``pip`` +or ``easy_install``. + +.. code-block:: sh + + pip install sleekxmpp # Or: easy_install sleekxmpp + + +Many XMPP applications eventually graduate to requiring to run as a server +component in order to meet scalability requirements. To demonstrate how to +turn an XMPP client bot into a component, we'll turn the echobot example +(:ref:`echobot`) into a component version. + +The first difference is that we will add an additional import statement: + +.. code-block:: python + + from sleekxmpp.componentxmpp import ComponentXMPP + +Likewise, we will change the bot's class definition to match: + +.. code-block:: python + + class EchoComponent(ComponentXMPP): + + def __init__(self, jid, secret, server, port): + ComponentXMPP.__init__(self, jid, secret, server, port) + +A component instance requires two extra parameters compared to a client +instance: ``server`` and ``port``. These specifiy the name and port of +the XMPP server that will be accepting the component. For example, for +a MUC component, the following could be used: + +.. code-block:: python + + muc = ComponentXMPP('muc.sleekxmpp.com', '******', 'sleekxmpp.com', 5555) + +.. note:: + + The ``server`` value is **NOT** derived from the provided JID for the + component, unlike with client connections. + +One difference with the component version is that we do not have +to handle the :term:`session_start` event if we don't wish to deal +with presence. + +The other, main difference with components is that the +``'from'`` value for every stanza must be explicitly set, since +components may send stanzas from multiple JIDs. To do so, +the :meth:`~sleekxmpp.basexmpp.BaseXMPP.send_message()` and +:meth:`~sleekxmpp.basexmpp.BaseXMPP.send_presence()` accept the parameters +``mfrom`` and ``pfrom``, respectively. For any method that uses +:class:`~sleekxmpp.stanza.iq.Iq` stanzas, ``ifrom`` may be used. + + +Final Product +------------- + +.. include:: ../../examples/echo_component.py + :literal: -- cgit v1.2.3