xmpp-backends

xmpp-backends is a Python library and provides a set of classes with a common interface to communicate with admin interfaces of various XMPP servers. It also includes helper libraries to make it easier to use and configure with Django.

Detailed documentation is available at http://xmpp-backends.rtfd.org/.

Installation

Simply do:

pip install xmpp-backends

Supported backends

• ejabberd_rest: Connects to ejabberd via mod_http_api. This is the recommended backend for ejabberd.
• ejabberd_xmlrpc: Connects to ejabberd via mod_xmlrpc. The backend uses it's own version of Python's xmlrpc library to correctly encode UTF-8 characters.
• ejabberdctl: Uses the ejabberdctl command line utility that obviously needs to be available on the local machine.
• FakeXMPP: Uses Djangos ORM store data in the database.
• dummy: Uses Django's chache backend, useful for testing.

ChangeLog

0.8.0 (2020-03-22)

• Add support for Python 3.7 and 3.8.
• Add support for Django 2.2 and 3.0.
• Add support for ejabberd 18.09.
• Drop support for Python 2.7 and 3.4.
• Drop support for Django 1.11, 2.0 and 2.1.
• Drop support for ejabberd 14.07.
• Run test suite with warnings turned into errors to make sure that deprecated Django code is found.
• Run test suite with coverage to check code coverage.
• Add more tests to increaste test coverage.

0.7.0 (2018-09-23)

• Update requirements.
• Current xmpp-backends version is no available as a tuple in xmpp_backends.VERSION.
• Also test ejabberd versions 18.03, 18.04 and 18.06.
• Backend classes now get the API version directly from the backend via the api_version property.
• The version parameter and get_version functions are now deprecated in favor of api_version.
• Fully support Django 2.1.
• Modify the test-suite so that DeprecationWarnings from Django are an error.
• all_user_sessions() returns a valid status and status text for ejabberd >= 18.06 (the fields were added to the underlying API call).

0.6.0 (2018-04-24)

• Update requirements.
• New xmpp_backends.fake_xmpp Django app to allow easier development if you're developing a Django app.
• ejabberdctl backend now also accepts a list of commands to enable running this backend together with an ejabberd instance running inside a Docker container.
• Fix autodoc documentation for xmpp_backends.django.
• Test interface based on blacklist of functions, not on whitelist.
• New fab test_server command that tests all backends for a specific server.
• fab test_backend now starts Docker containers for historic versions of ejabberd.

0.5.0 (2017-09-24)

• New methods all_domains() and all_user_sessions().
• user_sessions now also returns a list of UserSession instances, like all_sessions().
• ipaddress is now a dependency in Python2.
• Raise NotImplementedError if a backend constructor gets an unsupported version.
• get_last_activity now raises UserNotFound if the user does not exist. In ejabberd < 17.04, this means a second API call.
• set_password checks if the user exists with ejabberd < 16.01, as ejabberd just creates a user with the underlying API call in those versions.
• block_user() and set_last_activity and user_sessions() raise NotSupportedError for ejabberd 14.07, as the underlying API call is broken in that version.
• Fix message_user() to work with all versions.

0.4.1 (2017-08-27)

• Raise new BackendConnectionError if the backend can't be reached. This case was previously unhandled in the ejabberd_rest backend.

0.4.0 (2017-08-08)

• Account for API changes in ejabberd 17.04.
• Add a fabfile for common development tasks.
  • Code quality is now checked using isort and flake8 with the fab check command.
  • fab test_backend now allows you to test a backend. The command is used to assert identical behaviour in the various backends.
• Update development requirements.
• Update language quantifiers for setup.py.
• Use Travis CI to run at least some basic in continuous integration.
• Fix start_user_session in the dummy backend.
• Fix Python3 support for the ejabberdctl backend.
• set_last_activity now has an empty default status.
• Various minor fixes in returned values and raised exceptions in all backends.

0.3.0 (2016-12-26)

• Move django-xmpp-backends to the xmpp_backends.django module.
• New XMPP backend accessing ejabberds REST API interface.
• Add new commands: stats, get_last_activity, user_sessions and stop_user_session.
• Implement block_user for ejabberd backends using the ban_account command.
• Add a consistent version parameter to handle version-specific behaviour in APIs.
• The ejabberdctl backend now accepts the path instead of EJABBERDCTL_PATH for consistency with other backends.
• Write documentation hosted on http://xmpp-backends.readthedocs.io/.
• Add a test-script that runs the most important commands against a live XMPP server.

0.2.1 (2016-09-03)

• ejabberd_xmlrpc backend: Ignore the context parameter in Python3. The parameter is still documented in the official documentation but in fact the constructor no longer accepts it.

0.2 (2016-04-24)

• Fix import in the dummy backend.
• Release also adds a Python Wheel.

0.1 (2015-11-18)

• Initial release.

License

This project is licensed as GPL v3.0+ except where noted below, see LICENSE file found in this repository.

• xmpp_backends/xmlrpclib.py is a copy of the xmlrpclib module found in Python 2.7.10 modified to work to encode UTF-8 characters the way ejabberd does. The file is licensed under the same license as the original, please see the file itself for details.