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Programming Jabber
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Programming Jabber

by DJ Adams
January 2002
Beginner
480 pages
13h 15m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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jabber:x:delay

Messages are sometimes sent to entities that aren’t available at that particular moment. If they are stored offline, they are timestamped, in the jabber:x:delay namespace, so that when they are finally received, the recipient can use this information to determine when they were originally sent:

RECV: <message to='sabine@yak/Work' from='yak'>
        <subject>Weekend at last!</subject>
        <body>Don't forget Father's Day on Sunday!</body>
        <x xmlns='jabber:x:delay' from='yak/announce/motd'
           stamp='20010615T09:00:01'>Announced</x>
        </message>

In this Message-Of-The-Day (MOTD) announcement, we see that, as well as the stamp attribute showing that the announcement was sent out on the Friday morning before Father’s Day, a short text description, “Announced”, is included.

The namespace is also used by the xdb component to timestamp various fragments of data stored in the user’s records on the server. Here, we see that Sabine updated her user registration details (using a jabber:iq:register query during her session) at the beginning of March:

<query xmlns='jabber:iq:register' xdbns='jabber:iq:register'>
  <name>S. Reitz-Adams</name>
  <email>sabine@reitz-adams.org</email>
  <x xmlns='jabber:x:delay' stamp='20010302T12:15:42'>updated</x>
</query>

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