What is strophe and how to use it with JQuery?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1611873
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05-07-2019 - |
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Can somebody explain what strophe is?
I believe it has something to do with XMPP?
How can I incorporate it into a site using Jquery?
Solution
Strophe is not a Jabber Client, and its not an XMPP client. Its a library that allows you to easily write either of these. You could (with great difficulty) write a Jabber/XMPP Client from scratch using Javascript or Jquery, but this would be very difficult imagine generating and sending XML like this:
<body xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' sid='e4fcc09444a61059e88296a106e86e1ff1454f9b' wait='60' requests='2' inactivity='30' maxpause='120' polling='2' ver='1.8' from='localhost' secure='true' authid='1027072784' xmlns:xmpp='urn:xmpp:xbosh' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' xmpp:version='1.0'><stream:features xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams'><bind xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-bind'/>
Strophe is a library of Javascript functions that makes the process of writing an XMPP client easier. It has methods to allow you to connect to a server, to send a message to a user, to add a contact - and it knows about the XML that needs to be sent to the server to carry out these actions. It basically does all the difficult stuff - the XML generating, sending, connecting and communicating stuff for you. Which makes your life a whole lot easier.
OTHER TIPS
Strophe is a XMPP client, written in Javascript. More specifically, it is a Javascript library that lets you write real-time web applications that have full XMPP capabilities. It is "real-time" because is uses a "Comet-like" technique known as "BOSH" http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0124.html.
Once you learn the basics of Strophe, using it with jQuery will "just work" as there is no conflicting code, named functions, or dependencies.
The API documentation for the library can be found here -> str<>phe API
It's a javascript library that's separate to jQuery but obviously you can call any javascript library from any other so I don't believe you'll have any requirement for a specific jQuery integration.
Strophe already uses jQuery. In fact, the Strophe builder APIs borrow the $() syntax from jQuery. Take a look at the echobot example that comes with the source. Definitely check out the Strophe Google group (http://groups.google.com/group/strophe), where you would find Jack Moffitt (creator of Strophe) promptly answers questions himself.
