Provided by: libanyevent-xmpp-perl_0.54-2_all 
NAME
AnyEvent::XMPP::Ext::VCard - VCards (XEP-0054 & XEP-0084)
SYNOPSIS
use AnyEvent::XMPP::Ext::VCard;
my $vcard = AnyEvent::XMPP::Ext::VCard->new;
$con->reg_cb (
stream_ready => sub { $vcard->hook_on ($con) }
);
$vcard->retrieve ($con, 'elmex@jabber.org', sub {
my ($jid, $vcard, $error) = @_;
if ($error) {
warn "couldn't get vcard for elmex@jabber.org: " . $error->string . "\n";
} else {
print "vCard nick for elmex@jabber.org: ".$vcard->{NICKNAME}."\n";
print "Avatar hash for elmex@jabber.org: ".$vcard->{_avatar_hash}."\n";
}
});
$vcard->store ($con, undef, { NICKNAME => 'net-xmpp2' }, sub {
my ($error) = @_;
if ($error) {
warn "upload failed: " . $error->string . "\n";
} else {
print "upload successful\n";
}
});
$disco->enable_feature ($vcard->disco_feature);
DESCRIPTION
This extension handles setting and retrieval of the VCard and the VCard based avatars.
For example see the test suite of AnyEvent::XMPP.
METHODS
new (%args)
Creates a new vcard extension. It can take a "cache" argument, which should be a tied
hash which should be able to save the retrieved vcards. If no "cache" is set a
internal hash will be used and the vcards will be retrieved everytime the program is
restarted. The keys will be the stringprepped bare JIDs of the people we got a vcard
from and the value will be a non-cyclic hash/array datastructure representing the
vcard.
About this datastructure see below at VCARD STRUCTURE.
If you want to support avatars correctly make sure you hook up the connection via the
"hook_on" method.
hook_on ($con, $dont_retrieve_vcard)
$con must be an object of the class AnyEvent::XMPP::Connection (or derived). Once the
vCard extension has been hooked up on a connection it will add the avatar information
to all outgoing presence stanzas.
IMPORTANT: You need to hook on the connection BEFORE it was connected. The initial
presence stanza needs to contain the information that we support avatars. The vcard
will automatically retrieved if the session wasn't already started. Otherwise you will
have to retrieve the vcard manually if you hook it up after the "session_ready" event
was received. You can prevent the automatic retrieval by giving a true value in
$dont_retrieve_vcard. However, just make sure to hook up on any connection before it
is connected if you want to offer avatar support on it.
Best is probably to do it like this:
my $vcard = AnyEvent::XMPP::Ext::VCard->new;
$con->reg_cb (
stream_ready => sub { $vcard->hook_on ($con) }
);
my_vcard ($con)
This method returns the vcard for the account connected by $con. This only works if
vcard was (successfully) retrieved. If the connection was hoooked up the vcard was
automatically retrieved.
Alternatively $con can also be a string reprensenting the JID of an account.
cache ([$newcache])
See also "new" about the meaning of cache hashes. If no argument is given the current
cache is returned.
store ($con, $vcard, $cb)
This method will store your $vcard on the connected server. $cb is called when either
an error occured or the storage was successful. If an error occured the first
argument is not undefined and contains an AnyEvent::XMPP::Error::IQ object.
$con should be a AnyEvent::XMPP::Connection or an object from some derived class.
$vcard has a datastructure as described below in VCARD STRUCTURE.
retrieve ($con, $jid, $cb)
This method will retrieve the vCard for $jid via the connection $con. If $jid is
undefined the vCard of yourself is retrieved. The callback $cb is called when an
error occured or the vcard was retrieved. The first argument of the callback will be
the JID to which the vCard belongs, the second argument is the vCard itself (as
described in VCARD STRUCTURE below) and the thrid argument is the error, if an error
occured (undef otherwise).
VCARD STRUCTURE
As there are currently no nice DOM implementations in Perl and I strongly dislike the DOM
API in general this module has a simple Perl datastructure without cycles to represent the
vCard.
First an example: A fetched vCard hash may look like this:
{
'URL' => ['http://www.ta-sa.org/'],
'ORG' => [{
'ORGNAME' => 'nethype GmbH'
}],
'N' => [{
'FAMILY' => 'Redeker'
}],
'EMAIL' => ['elmex@ta-sa.org'],
'BDAY' => ['1984-06-01'],
'FN' => ['Robin'],
'ADR' => [
{
HOME => undef,
'COUNTRY' => 'Germany'
},
{
WORK => undef,
COUNTRY => 'Germany',
LOCALITY => 'Karlsruhe'
}
],
'NICKNAME' => ['elmex'],
'ROLE' => ['Programmer']
}
The keys represent the toplevel element of a vCard, the values are always array references
containig one or more values for the key. If the value is a hash reference again it's
value will not be an array reference but either undef or plain values.
The values of the toplevel keys are all array references because fields like "ADR" may
occur multiple times.
Consult XEP-0054 for an explanation what these fields mean or contain.
There are special fields in this structure for handling avatars: "_avatar" contains the
binary data for the avatar image. "_avatar_hash" contains the sha1 hexencoded hash of the
binary image data. "_avatar_type" contains the mime type of the avatar.
If you want to store the vcard you only have to set "_avatar" and "_avatar_type" if you
want to store an avatar.
EVENTS
The vcard extension will emit these events:
TODO
Implement caching, the cache stuff is just a storage hash at the moment. Or maybe drop it
completly and let the application handle caching.
retrieve_vcard_error => $iq_error
When a vCard retrieval was not successful, this event is emitted. This is neccessary
as some retrievals may happen automatically.
vcard => $jid, $vcard
Whenever a vCard is retrieved, either automatically or manually, this event is emitted
with the retrieved vCard.
AUTHOR
Robin Redeker, "<elmex at ta-sa.org>", JID: "<elmex at jabber.org>"
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2007, 2008 Robin Redeker, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.