jdev - 2021-11-22

Hi

Is anyone working on xmppframework for ios

?

muc configuration question

the dataform has no required fields

what happens if i request the dataform, but send back one with only one field set

does this mean its invalid, or does it mean the other values stay at their default?

so the idea is to send only the fields i change, not everything

lovetox: yes, when we revisited our MUC config handling in Prosody a while back I also found this underspecified. We preserve existing values of fields that are not submitted, and I believe ejabberd does the same.

I believe that to be what we do, and I believe we found clients that relied on it.

Although I might be misremembering.

i think its the only way, what would a server else do?

reject a form which is missing not required fields

this would be a violation of the dataform xep

delete values from the muc config if they are missing in the response?

this is probably not possible for most fields

because they need some value

I think the only options I considered were: set missing options to the default value, or leave them at whatever value they are currently

Leaving the previous values (or defaults in case of some create operation) seems the nicer option.

Might depend on the surrounding protocol tho