XMPP 2 Webhook

This is a very simple example to show how easy it is to create a HTTP POST request based on stanzas received by a Jabber Component. You can get this code and run it by yourself, or you can use Babylon to create a similar component that suits your needs.

The HTML response will then be "posted" to the XMPP chat.

Run this Example

You need to have access to a jabber server and set up access for a component that will be dedicated to this gateway. Choose a port and a password and copy them into config/config.yaml

Run with script/component

Then, send IM messages to encoded_url@your_component_jid where :

• encoded_url is a url that you have encoded with the following:

 +url.gsub(/[ "&'\/:<>@\\]/) { |c| '\\' + c[0].to_s(16).rjust(2, '0') }+

• your_component_jid is the jid of your component, like xmpp2hooks.server.com

Make sure the URL you use accepts POST requests! For testing/debugging purposes you can use www.postbin.org/

Create your own Component

This example will POST the "from", the "subject" and the "body" of a regular IM chat message. You might want to POST specific information.

• $> sudo gem install babylon
• $> babylon application myapp
• $> cd myapp
• $> babylon controller xmpp2http post:100://message[@type=’chat’]

    - xmpp2http is the name of the controller to be created
    - post is the name of the action that will be called
    - 100 is the priority
    - //message[@type='chat'] is an XPath that matches the stanza you'd like to POST
  

• Customize the fields you want to keep in your stanza to POST in stanzas/post.rb
• Customize the code of your post action in Xmpp2httpController

And you’re done!

Have fun!