muc support missing

[ghost]

I see maccman made fork and added support, but it was more than year ago.

I also see branch with this feature.

I can't really use balther without muc support.

What is ETA on this feature?

I see there was discussion 9 months ago: http://groups.google.com/group/xmpp-blather/browse_thread/thread/601d1eee9bd19ba5

[benlangfeld]

There is currently no ETA since, at least as far as I am aware, no-one is actively working on MUC support. I did a little bit of work a few weeks ago, but not a great deal. It's going to need significantly more.

Are you interested in sponsoring MUC support in Blather?

[benlangfeld]

Blather now has basic MUC support. Further support for stanzas and a DSL will come eventually.

[cowboyd]

Are there any examples of how to use the MUC API? I'd be happy to work with/extend it if there were some way to get a foothold into how the basic interaction is imagined.

[benlangfeld]

For now, all that is supported is joining a MUC room, and monitoring presence from it. To join a MUC room:

join = Blather::Stanza::Presence::MUC.new
join.to = "room-name@service/desired_nick"
write_to_stream join

You can check out the API for Blather::Stanza::Presence::MUCUser.

Right now, that's more or less all there is, along with support for XEP-0203 (delay). Currently, I'm working on refactoring the whole of Blather to use decorators rather than the current structure which does not lend well to composition. This is a large task, and I'm prioritising it above further MUC support right now.