jdev - 2025-05-01

i want to create blocking list for muc users on pubsub, every item is one user that is blocked, though i struggle a bit with the item id. as it needs to be unique it cant be the room jid alone. my idea was something like "roomjid:occupant-id". but now i question if ":" is a good separator. it could be in the occupant-id

but if i got this correct, it cannot be in a bare jid,which the muc would be

so it should be safe splitting on this separator on first occurence from left

anyone has a better approach or an opinion about that?

could i run into a occupant id which has not allowed characters for an attribute? ✏

Why not roomjid/occupantid ?

There are no not allowed characters for an attribute

good idea with the / seems obvious

Why not just store it locally?

#1 it's kind of a privacy issue unless users know you are uploading their blocks #2 maybe users want different blocklists for different computers, I know at least a few IRC users who have one blocklist for work and none or smaller for home

Users in general expect blocks to be uploaded and sync'd and occupant ids are hardly full of details the server doesn't already know

I just listed a use case where they don't lol

servers don't currently store occupant-id either

They do if you get a pm

Otherwise they don't usually choose to store, sure, but it's not secret information

store vs not is already a huge difference