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Connecting to an XMPP / Jabber Server with the XIFF AS3 Library

As I mentioned earlier, I am starting to build an XMPP chat client for the XMPP / Jabber community server I set up today. I am using the XIFF ActionScript 3 library. While the library seems to be pretty solid, there is not a ton of documentation for it right now.

Here is a simple example that shows how to connect to an XMPP / Jabber server, join a room, and send a message to the room. The example assumes that you already have a username and password on the server (I havent figured out how to get it to connect anonymously yet):

// ActionScript file
import org.jivesoftware.xiff.conference.Room;
import org.jivesoftware.xiff.core.JID;
import org.jivesoftware.xiff.core.XMPPSocketConnection;
import org.jivesoftware.xiff.events.LoginEvent;
import org.jivesoftware.xiff.events.RoomEvent;
import org.jivesoftware.xiff.events.XIFFErrorEvent;

private var connection:XMPPSocketConnection;

private function onCreationComplete():void
{
        connection = new XMPPSocketConnection();
        connection.username = "test";
        connection.password = "test";
        connection.server = "mesh.local";
        connection.port = 5222;

        connection.addEventListener(LoginEvent.LOGIN, onLogin);
    connection.addEventListener(XIFFErrorEvent.XIFF_ERROR, onError);        

        connection.connect("standard");
}

private function onLogin(e:LoginEvent):void
{
        var room:Room = new Room(connection);
        room.roomJID = new JID("test@conference.mesh.local");
        room.addEventListener(RoomEvent.ROOM_JOIN, onRoomJoin);
        room.join();
}

private function onRoomJoin(e:RoomEvent):void
{
        Room(e.target).sendMessage("im here");
}

private function onError(e:XIFFErrorEvent):void
{
        trace(e.errorCode);
}

Thanks go out to Mitchell Hashimoto who helped me figure this out over on the XIFF forums.

Written by mikechambers

August 14th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

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13 Responses to 'Connecting to an XMPP / Jabber Server with the XIFF AS3 Library'

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Funny … my to-do list still has “finish XIFF documentation.” Perhaps one day in the distant future I will get to that :) In the meantime, the code has asdoc comments so you can at least use that to generate the basics.

Sean

14 Aug 08 at 5:02 pm

That’s a handy example, much shorter than the ‘minimal’ one I’ve been using for testing.

Instead of connection.username and connection.password, you can set connection.useAnonymousLogin to true to, uh, use anonymous log-in. To me a while to figure that that was all there was to it!

Tom Carden

14 Aug 08 at 5:55 pm

Thanks Mike! This is exactly what I was looking for!

Tim Denney

14 Aug 08 at 7:30 pm

I have developed an Desktop instant messenger Velvetpuffin using XIFF library with mProjector two years before. Instant messenger have features to chat with yahoo,msn,gtalk,icq buddies with sharing of photos and blog. That time it is in actionscript 2.0. But the product failure due to performance (mProjector) issue and limitation in passing objects to multiple windows in desktop. You can view the video demo at http://velvetpuffin.vox.com/. After that I have not tuched XIFF library. After seeing your sample, I am thinking of developing desktop client using AIR. Hope performance issue may not come in AIR.

-Santhakumar
http://www.my3dwall.com

santhakumar

14 Aug 08 at 8:12 pm

The lack of documentation, in my opinio,n is hampering the wide-spread adoption of XIFF. I believe it should be of importance that some “quick start guide” or “tutorial series” should be set up for developers interested in XIFF.

William from Lagos

15 Aug 08 at 2:03 am

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15 Aug 08 at 8:52 am

I agree, so far I’m absolutely loving XIFF except for
1. The name, I don’t think the AS API should be named the same as the messaging format it uses.
2. No examples or quick start guides.

I just switched over to XIFF from using WIMAS3, which was just awful. I don’t know how that got any popularity and it seems that XIFF is still an unknown. It will catch on though, it just needs a little marketing!

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15 Aug 08 at 9:17 am

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15 Aug 08 at 7:04 pm

You should also check out the Spark project also Flex, also from Jive, also very cool. And it probably already does a tonne of the stuff you were thinking of trying.