[Standards-JIG] ad-hoc commands questions

[Gaston Dombiak]

Hey guys,

Some time ago we implemented XEP-50 into Wildfire and we are now slowly 
implementing XEP-133. While implementing XEP-133 (btw, I tend to keep 
writing JEP instead of XEP :) ) I noticed two differences that I think are 
not clear when reading XEP-50.

In XEP-50 commands are executed using IQ stanzas of type SET. The XEP does 
not explicitly specify that they MUST be of a certain type but that is what 
you infer from the examples. On the other hand XEP-133 is using IQ stanzas 
of type GET to run commands (e.g. 4.7 Change User Password). It seems that 
XEP-133 is using GET to "get" the form and "set" to finally execute the 
command. I think that in order to make things simple I prefer the option of 
just using SET instead of a mix of GET/SET. What do you think?

The other question is related to errors while executing commands. For 
instance, how should the answer be when a supplied user JID does not exist 
while trying to change a user password? XEP-50 is using the <note/> element 
of type "error" to indicate that there was an error. But what type of IQ 
packet should the be returned (i.e. "error"  or "result")? BTW, example 23 
in XEP-20 is using type SET while I guess the author wanted to use ERROR.

Answering to my last question and after reading section 4.4 Possible Errors 
in XEP-50 I think that IQ packets should be of type ERROR and probably we 
should use the condition <cmd:bad-payload/> for those cases. Is this 
correct? May be adding a few examples of errors while executing commands in 
XEP-50 and XEP-133 would help implementers to more easily understand.

Thanks for reading up to here. :)

Saludos,

  -- Gato