[Standards] ProtoXEP: Game Support

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Torsten Grote wrote:

> Do you have any opinion on the disco for individual games?

How many games do you expect clients to support?

> I see basically three ways to do it:
> 
> 1. include games in normal disco as feature

That seems OK. The nice thing is that if a user installs the checkers 
plugin (or whatever), it can send an entity capabilities update.

> 2. use info/item nodes in normal disco

That might be appropriate. It depends on what we think a game is (is it 
a feature or an item?).

> 3. some "own" third way, as we did

-1

> Number 1 could blow up the disco response considerably, while Number 2
> and 3 allow for a separate query for games. Unfortunately, I can't come
> up with a nice way to do Number 2.

Using disco#info or disco#items is preferable.

> Our current solution is very similar to a disco#items query (e.g. MUC
> room query). Are there any good reasons not to do it that way?

Yes, it's non-standard and other clients won't be able to play along.

Peter

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