OpenFire UserService Plugin extension

I want to be able to send messages from an external application via an http request to users. For this reason I ‘merged’ UserService and Subscription plugins. With this modification userService can send messages to users. All you need to do is to build a correct http request in your application.

  • Note, that I’m NOT a Java programmer at all!
  • In order to use this modification you’ll have to reinstall the userService Plugin.
  • No error handling is provided.

 

New parameters added:

sender sender of the message OF version
recipient recipient of the message 3.6+
subject subject of the message 3.6+
msg body (text) of the message 3.6+
username a valid username 3.7+

 

Example query 3.6+ :

http://example.com:9090/plugins/userService/userservice?secret=bigsecret&type=sendmsg&sender=admin1&recipient=user1&subject=test_msg&msg=my_important_message

Example query 3.7+ :

http://example.com:9090/plugins/userService/userservice?secret=bigsecret&type=sendmsg&sender=admin1&recipient=user1&subject=test_msg&msg=my_important_message&username=sysuser1

 

All parameters can be sent via HTTP POST or GET methods in a single query. For example the sender, the recipient and the subject parameters use  http GET, while the msg parameter uses http POST method.

Note: In order to send big (more than ~2k) messages you need to use POST method for the msg parameter.  You need to urlencode() some or all the values!

userService_OF3.6.0_20080519_0
userService_OF3.7.0b_20100415_0

An example usage is an intranet web application that sends message to a user  when someone opens a link. A simple PHP example:

 

Simple PHP example