ejabberd - Comments for "eJbberd v2.1.5: pub-sub retract item: notification do not work"

You are right, the newer

ppolv — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:25:49 +0000

You are right, the newer changes to pubsub in 2.1 introduced this, it is not the correct behavior in this case.
We have opened a bug for it, you can track it here

https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1316

thanks!

'notify' attribute is useless?

Real_Yagiza — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:25:45 +0000

Why 'notify' attribute is useless for item retract?
This violates XEP-0060, which paragraph 7.2.2.1 Delete And Notify says that if 'notify' attribute with value 'true' or '1' present,

the service MUST delete the item and MUST notify all subscribers

!
And that paragraph precedes paragraph 8.2 Configure a Node, which says about 'pubsub#notify_retract' feature. So, notify='1' MUST work regardless of 'pubsub#notify_retract' configuration setting.

PEP item deletion notification

kael — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:29:06 +0000

To be able to retract an item, the node has to be configured with persistent items and notification of items deletion :

<iq type='set' id='config2'>
 <pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#owner'>
  <configure node='http://jabber.org/protocol/mood'>
   <x xmlns='jabber:x:data' type='submit'>
    <field var='FORM_TYPE' type='hidden'>
     <value>http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#node_config</value>
    </field>
    <field type="boolean" var="pubsub#persist_items" >
     <value>1</value>
    </field>
    <field type="text-single" var="pubsub#max_items">
     <value>10</value>
    </field>
    <field type="boolean" var="pubsub#notify_retract" >
     <value>1</value>
    </field>
   </x>
  </configure>
 </pubsub>
</iq>

By default, PEP nodes are not configured with persistent items and items deletion notification.

And to retract an item, the 'notify' attribute is useless :

<iq type='set' id='retract1'>
 <pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
  <retract node='http://jabber.org/protocol/mood'>
   <item id='current'/>
  </retract>
 </pubsub>
</iq>