[Standards] XEP-0060: return ItemID in IQ-result?

[Julien Duroure]

Hello,

I think this is a good point. "OPTIONAL" is a minimum,and why not "MUST" ...

Julien

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
> When you publish an item to a pubsub node and the ItemID is generated by
> the service, you don't know what the ItemID is unless you subscribe to
> the node (which I grant is typical for publishers) and you can correctly
> correlate the payload with what you published. While the IQ-result tells
>  you that the item has been published, you don't know necessarily the
> ItemID. It seems reasonable that the service MAY return the ItemID to
> you, as in the following flow:
>
> <iq type='set'
>    from='hamlet at denmark.lit/blogbot'
>    to='pubsub.shakespeare.lit'
>    id='publish1'>
>  <pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
>    <publish node='princely_musings'>
>      <item>
>        <entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
>          <title>Soliloquy</title>
>          <summary>
> To be, or not to be: that is the question:
> Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
> The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
> Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
> And by opposing end them?
>          </summary>
>          <link rel='alternate' type='text/html'
>                href='http://denmark.lit/2003/12/13/atom03'/>
>          <id>tag:denmark.lit,2003:entry-32397</id>
>          <published>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</published>
>          <updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
>        </entry>
>      </item>
>    </publish>
>  </pubsub>
> </iq>
>
> <iq type='result'
>    from='pubsub.shakespeare.lit'
>    to='hamlet at denmark.lit/blogbot'
>    id='publish1'>
>  <pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
>    <publish node='princely_musings'>
>      <item id='ae890ac52d0df67ed7cfdf51b644e901'/>
>    </publish>
>  </pubsub>
> </iq>
>
> Is this needed or desirable? This would not be required, but optional
> for the service.
>
> Peter
>
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> Peter Saint-Andre
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>
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