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1###############################################################################
2#
3#  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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18#  Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Jabber Software Foundation http://jabber.org/
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20###############################################################################
21
22package Net::Jabber;
23
24=head1 NAME
25
26Net::Jabber - Jabber Perl Library
27
28=head1 SYNOPSIS
29
30  Net::Jabber provides a Perl user with access to the Jabber Instant
31  Messaging protocol.
32
33  For more information about Jabber visit:
34
35    http://www.jabber.org
36
37=head1 DESCRIPTION
38
39  Net::Jabber is a convenient tool to use for any perl script that would
40  like to utilize the Jabber Instant Messaging protocol.  While not a
41  client in and of itself, it provides all of the necessary back-end
42  functions to make a CGI client or command-line perl client feasible and
43  easy to use.  Net::Jabber is a wrapper around the rest of the official
44  Net::Jabber::xxxxxx packages.
45
46  There is are example scripts in the example directory that provide you
47  with examples of very simple Jabber programs.
48
49
50  NOTE: The parser that XML::Stream::Parser provides, as are most Perl
51  parsers, is synchronous.  If you are in the middle of parsing a packet
52  and call a user defined callback, the Parser is blocked until your
53  callback finishes.  This means you cannot be operating on a packet,
54  send out another packet and wait for a response to that packet.  It
55  will never get to you.  Threading might solve this, but as of the
56  writing of this, threading in Perl is not quite up to par yet.  This
57  issue will be revisted in the future.
58
59=head1 EXAMPLES
60
61    For a client:
62      use Net::Jabber;
63      my $client = Net::Jabber::Client->new();
64
65    For a component:
66      use Net::Jabber;
67      my $component = Net::Jabber::Component->new();
68
69=head1 METHODS
70
71  The Net::Jabber module does not define any methods that you will call
72  directly in your code.  Instead you will instantiate objects that call
73  functions from this module to do work.  The three main objects that
74  you will work with are the Message, Presence, and IQ modules.  Each one
75  corresponds to the Jabber equivilant and allows you get and set all
76  parts of those packets.
77
78=head1 PACKAGES
79
80  For more information on each of these packages, please see the man page
81  for each one.
82
83=head2 Net::Jabber::Client
84
85  This package contains the code needed to communicate with a Jabber
86  server: login, wait for messages, send messages, and logout.  It uses
87  XML::Stream to read the stream from the server and based on what kind
88  of tag it encounters it calls a function to handle the tag.
89
90=head2 Net::Jabber::Component
91
92  This package contains the code needed to write a server component.  A
93  component is a program tha handles the communication between a jabber
94  server and some outside program or communications pacakge (IRC, talk,
95  email, etc...)  With this module you can write a full component in just
96  a few lines of Perl.  It uses XML::Stream to communicate with its host
97  server and based on what kind of tag it encounters it calls a function
98  to handle the tag.
99
100=head2 Net::Jabber::Protocol
101
102  A collection of high-level functions that Client and Component use to
103  make their lives easier through inheritance.
104
105=head2 Net::Jabber::JID
106
107  The Jabber IDs consist of three parts: user id, server, and resource.
108  This module gives you access to those components without having to
109  parse the string yourself.
110
111=head2 Net::Jabber::Message
112
113  Everything needed to create and read a <message/> received from the
114  server.
115
116=head2 Net::Jabber::Presence
117
118  Everything needed to create and read a <presence/> received from the
119  server.
120
121=head2 Net::Jabber::IQ
122
123  IQ is a wrapper around a number of modules that provide support for the
124  various Info/Query namespaces that Jabber recognizes.
125
126=head2 Net::Jabber::Stanza
127
128  This module represents a namespaced stanza that is used to extend a
129  <message/>, <presence/>, and <iq/>.  Ultimately each namespace is
130  documented in a JEP of some kind.  http://jabber.org/jeps/
131
132  The man page for Net::Jabber::Stanza contains a listing of all
133  supported namespaces, and the methods that are supported by the objects
134  that represent those namespaces.
135
136=head2 Net::Jabber::Namespaces
137
138  Jabber allows for any stanza to be extended by any bit of XML.  This
139  module contains all of the internals for defining the Jabber based
140  extensions defined by the JEPs.  The documentation for this module
141  explains more about how to add your own custom namespace and have it be
142  supported.
143
144=head1 AUTHOR
145
146Ryan Eatmon
147
148=head1 COPYRIGHT
149
150This module is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify
151it under the same terms as Perl itself.
152
153=cut
154
155require 5.005;
156use strict;
157use Carp;
158use POSIX;
159use Net::XMPP 1.0;
160
161use base qw( Net::XMPP );
162
163use vars qw( $VERSION );
164
165$VERSION = "2.0";
166
167use Net::Jabber::Debug;
168use Net::Jabber::JID;
169use Net::Jabber::Namespaces;
170use Net::Jabber::Stanza;
171use Net::Jabber::Message;
172use Net::Jabber::IQ;
173use Net::Jabber::Presence;
174use Net::Jabber::Protocol;
175use Net::Jabber::Client;
176use Net::Jabber::Component;
177
178sub GetTimeStamp { return &Net::XMPP::GetTimeStamp(@_); }
179sub printData    { return &Net::XMPP::printData(@_);    }
180sub sprintData   { return &Net::XMPP::sprintData(@_);   }
181
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