NAME

Net::Jabber::Server - Jabber Server Library

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
Net::Jabber::Server is a module that provides a developer easy access
to developing applications that need an embedded Jabber server.
            
          

DESCRIPTION

            

              
              
Server.pm seeks to provide enough high level APIs and automation of
the low level APIs that writing and spawning a Jabber Server in Perl
is trivial.  For those that wish to work with the low level you can
do that too, but those functions are covered in the documentation for
each module.
Net::Jabber::Server provides functions to run a full Jabber server that
accepts incoming connections and delivers packets to external Jabber
servers.  You can use all or none of the functions, there is no requirement.
For more information on how the details for how Net::Jabber is written
please see the help for Net::Jabber itself.
For a full list of high level functions available please see
Net::Jabber::Protocol.
            
          

Basic Functions

            

              
              
use Net::Jabber qw(Server);
$Server = new Net::Jabber::Server();
$Server->Start();
$Server->Start(jabberxml=>"custom_jabber.xml",
        hostname=>"foobar.net");
%status = $Server->Process();
%status = $Server->Process(5);
     
$Server->Stop();
            
          

METHODS

Basic Functions

            

              
              
 new(debuglevel=>0|1|2, - creates the Server object.  debugfile
     debugfile=>string,   should be set to the path for the debug
     debugtime=>0|1)      log to be written.  If set to "stdout"
                          then the debug will go there.  debuglevel
                          controls the amount of debug.  For more
                          information about the valid setting for
                          debuglevel, debugfile, and debugtime see
                          Net::Jabber::Debug.
 Start(hostname=>string, - starts the server listening on the proper
jaberxml=>string)   ports.  hostname is a quick way of telling
                           the server the hostname to listen on.
                           jabberxml defines the path to a different
                           jabberd configuration file (default is
                           "./jabber.xml").
 Process(integer) - takes the timeout period as an argument.  If no
                    timeout is listed then the function blocks until
                    a packet is received.  Otherwise it waits that
                    number of seconds and then exits so your program
                    can continue doing useful things.  NOTE: This is
                    important for GUIs.  You need to leave time to
                    process GUI commands even if you are waiting for
                    packets.  The following are the possible return
                    values for each hash entry, and what they mean:
                        1   - Status ok, data received.
                        0   - Status ok, no data received.
                      undef - Status not ok, stop processing.
                        
                    IMPORTANT: You need to check the output of every
                    Process.  If you get an undef then the connection
                    died and you should behave accordingly.
 Stop() - stops the server from running and shuts down all sub programs.
            
          

AUTHOR

By Ryan Eatmon in January of 2001 for http://jabber.org.

COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.