Smack/source/org/jivesoftware/smackx/packet/PEPItem.java

/**
 * $RCSfile: PEPItem.java,v $
 * $Revision: 1.2 $
 * $Date: 2007/11/06 02:05:09 $
 *
 * Copyright 2003-2007 Jive Software.
 *
 * All rights reserved. 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
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 */

package org.jivesoftware.smackx.packet;

import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.PacketExtension;

/**
 * Represents XMPP Personal Event Protocol packets.<p>
 * 
 * The 'http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#event' namespace  is used to publish personal events items from one client 
 * to subscribed clients (See XEP-163).
 *
 * @author Jeff Williams
 */
public abstract class PEPItem implements PacketExtension {
    
    String id;
    abstract String getNode();
    abstract String getItemDetailsXML();
    
    /**
    * Creates a new PEPItem.
    *
    */
    public PEPItem(String id) {
        super();
        this.id = id;
    }
    
     /**
    * Returns the XML element name of the extension sub-packet root element.
    * Always returns "x"
    *
    * @return the XML element name of the packet extension.
    */
    public String getElementName() {
        return "item";
    }

    /** 
     * Returns the XML namespace of the extension sub-packet root element.
     *
     * @return the XML namespace of the packet extension.
     */
    public String getNamespace() {
        return "http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub";
    }

    /**
     * Returns the XML representation of a Personal Event Publish according the specification.
     * 
     * Usually the XML representation will be inside of a Message XML representation like
     * in the following example:
     * <pre>
     * &lt;message id="MlIpV-4" to="gato1@gato.home" from="gato3@gato.home/Smack"&gt;
     *     &lt;subject&gt;Any subject you want&lt;/subject&gt;
     *     &lt;body&gt;This message contains roster items.&lt;/body&gt;
     *     &lt;x xmlns="jabber:x:roster"&gt;
     *         &lt;item jid="gato1@gato.home"/&gt;
     *         &lt;item jid="gato2@gato.home"/&gt;
     *     &lt;/x&gt;
     * &lt;/message&gt;
     * </pre>
     * 
     */
    public String toXML() {
        StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
        buf.append("<").append(getElementName()).append(" id=\"").append(id).append("\">");
        buf.append(getItemDetailsXML());
        buf.append("</").append(getElementName()).append(">");
        return buf.toString();
    }

}