XMPP: Post to PubSub

[sjehuda]

Describe the feature

In XMPP, using PubSub(1) (XEP-0060), it is possible to store posts as Atom Syndication(2) entries into XMPP(3).

There are several XMPP extensions that apply it, namely XEP-0227 (4) and XEP-0472 (5) which make node xmpp:microblog:0 as a common choice to manage news for client accounts (e.g. blog@ablog.i2p), yet a component account (e.g. pubsub.ablog.i2p) may use all of its nodes for this purpose.

pubsub.ablog.i2p/
|
|-- updates/
    |-- Sombre
     `-- Varied
|-- releases/
 `-- events/

pubsub service/
|
|-- node/
    |-- item
     `-- item
|-- node/
 `-- node/

Proposed solution

I have posted this ticket to multiple projects.

I am willing to work on this feature.

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I have made a software currently it is a read-only system) that realizes viewing PubSub node items as Atom XML feeds over HTTP(6).

1. XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe
2. RFC 4287: The Atom Syndication Format
3. Atom Over XMPP
4. XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP
5. XEP-0472: Pubsub Social Feed
6. The Rivista Publication Project You should see it (including screenshots)

[nabobalis]

Hi @sjehuda,

Do you know how much effort this would be to add to Ablog?

[sjehuda]

Do you know how much effort this would be to add to Ablog?

No. I do not know, yet. 1) I have yet to add publishing functionality to my project (Rivista). 2) I did not even observe the code of ABlog. If you would guide me through ABlog, I will gladly contribute XMPP related code. Once I would know what content should be sent, it will require several hours or a day, at most. I will be at https://xmpp.link/#syndication@conference.movim.eu?join and we can discuss about it there.

[nabobalis]

To be honest, while I used to maintain this library. I am not really versed on how it works and adding new features.

[sjehuda]

This is what I think I need to know. * Where is the code which is responsible for reading or parsing content files (RST, MD etc.) * Where is the code which initiates the publishing process. Once I know these, I would probably know what to do. This is what the XMPP code would do. * Read the content files. * Pack the files as HTML within Atom Syndication Format. * Send the files to XMPP PubSub node. Once this is done, we might want to arrange the nodes by dates, tags and other parameters that would help to map contents.

[nabobalis]

I actually don't know where the code is for those two parts. I am trying to re template the package interaly, so when I have a better idea of those. Hopefully I can tell you.