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@ -16,7 +16,100 @@ Provider Architecture: Packet Extensions and Custom IQ's
<p>
<i>Content to be added.</i>
The Smack provider architecture is a system for plugging in
custom XML parsing of packet extensions and IQ packets. The
standard <a href="extensions/index.html">Smack Extensions</a>
are built using the provider architecture. Two types of
providers exist:<ul>
<li><tt>IQProvider</tt> -- parses IQ requests into Java objects.
<li><tt>PacketExtension</tt> -- parses XML sub-documents attached to
packets into PacketExtension instances.</ul>
<p class="subheader">IQProvider</p>
By default, Smack only knows how to process IQ packets with sub-packets that
are in a few namespaces such as:<ul>
<li>jabber:iq:auth
<li>jabber:iq:roster
<li>jabber:iq:register</ul>
Because many more IQ types are part of XMPP and its extensions, a pluggable IQ parsing
mechanism is provided. IQ providers are registered programatically or by creating a
smack.providers file in the META-INF directory of your JAR file. The file is an XML
document that contains one or more iqProvider entries, as in the following example:
<pre>
&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
&lt;smackProviders&gt;
&lt;iqProvider&gt;
&lt;elementName&gt;query&lt;/elementName&gt;
&lt;namespace&gt;jabber:iq:time&lt;/namespace&gt;
&lt;className&gt;org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.Time&lt/className&gt;
&lt;/iqProvider&gt;
&lt;/smackProviders&gt;</pre>
Each IQ provider is associated with an element name and a namespace. In the
example above, the element name is <tt>query</tt> and the namespace is
<tt>abber:iq:time</tt>. If multiple provider entries attempt to register to
handle the same namespace, the first entry loaded from the classpath will
take precedence. <p>
The IQ provider class can either implement the IQProvider
interface, or extend the IQ class. In the former case, each IQProvider is
responsible for parsing the raw XML stream to create an IQ instance. In
the latter case, bean introspection is used to try to automatically set
properties of the IQ instance using the values found in the IQ packet XML.
For example, an XMPP time packet resembles the following:
<pre>
&lt;iq type='result' to='joe@example.com' from='mary@example.com' id='time_1'&gt;
&lt;query xmlns='jabber:iq:time'&gt;
&lt;utc&gt;20020910T17:58:35&lt;/utc&gt;
&lt;tz&gt;MDT&lt;/tz&gt;
&lt;display&gt;Tue Sep 10 12:58:35 2002&lt;/display&gt;
&lt;/query&gt;
&lt;/iq&gt;</pre>
In order for this packet to be automatically mapped to the Time object listed in the
providers file above, it must have the methods setUtc(String), setTz(String), and
setDisplay(String). The introspection service will automatically try to convert the String
value from the XML into a boolean, int, long, float, double, or Class depending on the
type the IQ instance expects.<p>
<p class="subheader">PacketExtensionProvider</p>
Packet extension providers provide a pluggable system for
packet extensions, which are child elements in a custom namespace
of message and presence packets (IQ packets cannot have packet extensions).
Each extension provider is registered with an element name and namespace
in the smack.providers file as in the following example:
<pre>
&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
&lt;smackProviders&gt;
&lt;extensionProvider&gt;
&lt;elementName&gt;x&lt;/elementName&gt;
&lt;namespace&gt;jabber:iq:event&lt;/namespace&gt;
&lt;className&gt;org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.MessageEvent&lt/className&gt;
&lt;/extensionProvider&gt;
&lt;/smackProviders&gt;</pre>
If multiple provider entries attempt to register to handle the same element
name and namespace, the first entry loaded from the classpath will take
precedence.<p>
Whenever a packet extension is found in a packet, parsing will
be passed to the correct provider. Each provider can either implement the
PacketExtensionProvider interface or be a standard Java Bean. In the
former case, each extension provider is responsible for parsing the raw
XML stream to contruct an object. In the latter case, bean introspection
is used to try to automatically set the properties of the class using
the values in the packet extension sub-element.<p>
When an extension provider is not registered for an element name and
namespace combination, Smack will store all top-level elements of the
sub-packet in DefaultPacketExtension object and then attach it to the packet.
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