diff --git a/documentation/extensions/index.md b/documentation/extensions/index.md
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Currently supported XEPs of Smack (all sub-projects)
| Name | XEP | Version | Description |
|---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| Discovering Alternative XMPP Connection Methods | [XEP-0156](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0156.html) | 1.3.0 | Defines ways to discover alternative connection methods. |
| Nonzas | [XEP-0360](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0360.html) | n/a | Defines the term "Nonza", describing every top level stream element that is not a Stanza. |
Currently supported XEPs of smack-tcp
diff --git a/smack-core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/altconnections/HttpLookupMethod.java b/smack-core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/altconnections/HttpLookupMethod.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+/**
+ *
+ * Copyright 2020 Aditya Borikar.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.jivesoftware.smack.altconnections;
+
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLConnection;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.jivesoftware.smack.util.PacketParserUtils;
+import org.jivesoftware.smack.xml.XmlPullParser;
+import org.jivesoftware.smack.xml.XmlPullParserException;
+
+import org.jxmpp.jid.DomainBareJid;
+
+/**
+ * The HTTP lookup method uses web host metadata to list the URIs of alternative connection methods.
+ *
+ *
In order to obtain host-meta XRD element from the host in the form of an InputStream,
+ * use {@link #getXrdStream(DomainBareJid)} method. To obtain endpoints for Bosh or Websocket
+ * connection endpoints from host, use {@link LinkRelation#BOSH} and {@link LinkRelation#WEBSOCKET}
+ * respectively with the {@link #lookup(DomainBareJid, LinkRelation)} method. In case one is looking
+ * for endpoints described by other than BOSH or Websocket LinkRelation, use the more flexible
+ * {@link #lookup(DomainBareJid, String)} method.
+ * @see
+ * HTTP Lookup Method from XEP-0156.
+ *
+ */
+public final class HttpLookupMethod {
+ private static final String XRD_NAMESPACE = "http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0";
+
+ /**
+ * Specifies a link relation for the selected type of connection.
+ */
+ public enum LinkRelation {
+ /**
+ * Selects link relation attribute as "urn:xmpp:alt-connections:xbosh".
+ */
+ BOSH("urn:xmpp:alt-connections:xbosh"),
+ /**
+ * Selects link relation attribute as "urn:xmpp:alt-connections:websocket".
+ */
+ WEBSOCKET("urn:xmpp:alt-connections:websocket");
+ private final String attribute;
+ LinkRelation(String relAttribute) {
+ this.attribute = relAttribute;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Get remote endpoints for the given LinkRelation from host.
+ *
+ * @param xmppServiceAddress address of host
+ * @param relation LinkRelation as a string specifying type of connection
+ * @return list of endpoints
+ * @throws IOException exception due to input/output operations
+ * @throws XmlPullParserException exception encountered during XML parsing
+ * @throws URISyntaxException exception to indicate that a string could not be parsed as a URI reference
+ */
+ public static List lookup(DomainBareJid xmppServiceAddress, String relation) throws IOException, XmlPullParserException, URISyntaxException {
+ try (InputStream inputStream = getXrdStream(xmppServiceAddress)) {
+ XmlPullParser xmlPullParser = PacketParserUtils.getParserFor(inputStream);
+ List endpoints = parseXrdLinkReferencesFor(xmlPullParser, relation);
+ return endpoints;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Get remote endpoints for the given LinkRelation from host.
+ *
+ * @param xmppServiceAddress address of host
+ * @param relation {@link LinkRelation} specifying type of connection
+ * @return list of endpoints
+ * @throws IOException exception due to input/output operations
+ * @throws XmlPullParserException exception encountered during XML parsing
+ * @throws URISyntaxException exception to indicate that a string could not be parsed as a URI reference
+ */
+ public static List lookup(DomainBareJid xmppServiceAddress, LinkRelation relation) throws IOException, XmlPullParserException, URISyntaxException {
+ return lookup(xmppServiceAddress, relation.attribute);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Constructs a HTTP connection with the host specified by the DomainBareJid
+ * and retrieves XRD element in the form of an InputStream. The method will
+ * throw a {@link FileNotFoundException} if host-meta isn't published.
+ *
+ * @param xmppServiceAddress address of host
+ * @return InputStream containing XRD element
+ * @throws IOException exception due to input/output operations
+ */
+ public static InputStream getXrdStream(DomainBareJid xmppServiceAddress) throws IOException {
+ final String metadataUrl = "https://" + xmppServiceAddress + "/.well-known/host-meta";
+ final URL putUrl = new URL(metadataUrl);
+ final URLConnection urlConnection = putUrl.openConnection();
+ return urlConnection.getInputStream();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Get remote endpoints for the provided LinkRelation from provided XmlPullParser.
+ *
+ * @param parser XmlPullParser that contains LinkRelations
+ * @param relation type of endpoints specified by the given LinkRelation
+ * @return list of endpoints
+ * @throws IOException exception due to input/output operations
+ * @throws XmlPullParserException exception encountered during XML parsing
+ * @throws URISyntaxException exception to indicate that a string could not be parsed as a URI reference
+ */
+ public static List parseXrdLinkReferencesFor(XmlPullParser parser, String relation) throws IOException, XmlPullParserException, URISyntaxException {
+ List uriList = new ArrayList<>();
+ int initialDepth = parser.getDepth();
+
+ loop: while (true) {
+ XmlPullParser.TagEvent tag = parser.nextTag();
+ switch (tag) {
+ case START_ELEMENT:
+ String name = parser.getName();
+ String namespace = parser.getNamespace();
+ String rel = parser.getAttributeValue("rel");
+
+ if (!namespace.equals(XRD_NAMESPACE) || !name.equals("Link") || !rel.equals(relation)) {
+ continue loop;
+ }
+ String endpointUri = parser.getAttributeValue("href");
+ URI uri = new URI(endpointUri);
+ uriList.add(uri);
+ break;
+ case END_ELEMENT:
+ if (parser.getDepth() == initialDepth) {
+ break loop;
+ }
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ return uriList;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Get remote endpoints for the provided LinkRelation from provided XmlPullParser.
+ *
+ * @param parser XmlPullParser that contains LinkRelations
+ * @param relation type of endpoints specified by the given LinkRelation
+ * @return list of endpoints
+ * @throws IOException exception due to input/output operations
+ * @throws XmlPullParserException exception encountered during XML parsing
+ * @throws URISyntaxException exception to indicate that a string could not be parsed as a URI reference
+ */
+ public static List parseXrdLinkReferencesFor(XmlPullParser parser, LinkRelation relation) throws IOException, XmlPullParserException, URISyntaxException {
+ return parseXrdLinkReferencesFor(parser, relation.attribute);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/smack-core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/altconnections/package-info.java b/smack-core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/altconnections/package-info.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/**
+ *
+ * Copyright 2020 Aditya Borikar.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+/**
+ * Smack's API for XEP-0156: Discovering Alternative XMPP Connection Methods.
+ *
+ * XEP is partially supported as HTTP lookup is supported but DNS lookup isn't.
+ */
+package org.jivesoftware.smack.altconnections;
diff --git a/smack-core/src/test/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/altconnections/HttpLookupMethodTest.java b/smack-core/src/test/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/altconnections/HttpLookupMethodTest.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/**
+ *
+ * Copyright 2020 Aditya Borikar.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.jivesoftware.smack.altconnections;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.jivesoftware.smack.altconnections.HttpLookupMethod.LinkRelation;
+import org.jivesoftware.smack.util.PacketParserUtils;
+import org.jivesoftware.smack.xml.XmlPullParserException;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.jxmpp.stringprep.XmppStringprepException;
+
+public class HttpLookupMethodTest {
+ private static final String XRD_XML = "" +
+ "" +
+ "" +
+ "" +
+ "";
+
+ @Test
+ public void parseXrdLinkReferencesForWebsockets() throws XmppStringprepException, IOException, XmlPullParserException, URISyntaxException {
+ List endpoints = new ArrayList<>();
+ endpoints.add(new URI("wss://xmpp.igniterealtime.org:7483/ws/"));
+ endpoints.add(new URI("ws://xmpp.igniterealtime.org:7070/ws/"));
+ List expectedEndpoints = HttpLookupMethod.parseXrdLinkReferencesFor(PacketParserUtils.getParserFor(XRD_XML), LinkRelation.WEBSOCKET);
+ assertEquals(expectedEndpoints, endpoints);
+ }
+
+ @Test
+ public void parseXrdLinkReferencesForBosh() throws URISyntaxException, IOException, XmlPullParserException {
+ List endpoints = new ArrayList<>();
+ endpoints.add(new URI("https://igniterealtime.org:443/http-bind/"));
+ List expectedEndpoints = HttpLookupMethod.parseXrdLinkReferencesFor(PacketParserUtils.getParserFor(XRD_XML), LinkRelation.BOSH);
+ assertEquals(expectedEndpoints, endpoints);
+ }
+}