[Standards] XEP-0033: error handling

Mon May 7 17:21:01 CDT 2007

Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> As I was just discussing via IM with badlop (who is working on a 
>> Summer of Code project to add extended stanza addressing support to 
>> ejabberd), the error handling in XEP-0033 is rather sparse, bordering 
>> on unhelpful or even non-existent. For instance if you send a bunch of 
>> addresses and even one of them is unreachable, you receive back from 
>> the multicast service a <forbidden/> error (?!?) with no indication 
>> about which address(es) caused the problem. I suggest something like 
>> the following would be more helpful:
>>
>> <message from='header1.org' to='a at header1.org/work' type='error'>
>>    <addresses xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/address'>
>>      <address type='to'  jid='to at header1.org'/>
>>      <address type='cc'  jid='cc at header1.org'/>
>>      <address type='bcc' jid='bcc at header1.org'/>
>>      <address type='to'  jid='to at header2.org'/>
>>      <address type='cc'  jid='cc at header2.org'/>
>>      <address type='bcc' jid='bcc at header2.org'/>
>>      <address type='to'  jid='to at noheader.org'/>
>>      <address type='cc'  jid='cc at noheader.org'/>
>>      <address type='bcc' jid='bcc at noheader.org'/>
>>    </addresses>
>>    <body>Hello, World!</body>
>>    <error type='modify'>
>>      <item-not-found xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/>
>>      <unreachable xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/address#errors'>
>>        <address type='to'  jid='to at noheader.org'/>
>>        <address type='cc'  jid='cc at noheader.org'/>
>>        <address type='bcc' jid='bcc at noheader.org'/>
>>      </unreachable>
>>    </error>
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   Do we need to include the type also ?

Probably not necessary. I just did a quick copy and paste.

> And what if there are multiple error's generated : for different subsets 
> of the address list ?

I don't think the address list has "subsets". Could you clarify what you 
mean by that?

By "multiple errors" do you mean different kinds of errors, such as 
remote-server-timeout vs. remote-server-not-found vs. jid-malformed or 
whatever?

Peter

-- 
Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml

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