$Revision: 1636 $
$Date: 2007-02-14 13:53:18 +0200 (Wed, 14 Feb 2007) $
User's Guide
Overview
This module offers support for instant message conference. It
follows the architecture of IRC channels, you can send commands
embedded in MESSAGE body, because there are no SIP UA clients
which have GUI for IM conferencing.
You have to define an URI corresponding to im conferencing manager, where
user can send commands to create a new conference room. Once the conference
room is created, users can send commands directly to conferece's URI.
To ease the integration in the configuration file, the interpreter of
the IMC commands are embeded in the module, from configuration poin of
view, there is only one function which has to be executed for both
messages and commands.
Dependencies
&ser; Modules
The following modules must be loaded before this module:
mysql.
tm.
External Libraries or Applications
The following libraries or applications must be installed before running
&ser; with this module loaded:
None.
Exported Parameters
<varname>db_url</varname> (str)
The database url.
The default value is NULL.
Set <varname>db_url</varname> parameter
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modparam("imc", "db_url",
"mysql://openser:openserrw@192.168.2.132/openser")
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<varname>rooms_table</varname> (str)
The name of the table storing IMC rooms.
The default value is "imc_rooms".
Set <varname>rooms_table</varname> parameter
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modparam("imc", "rooms_table", "rooms")
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<varname>members_table</varname> (str)
The name of the table storing IMC members.
The default value is "imc_members".
Set <varname>members_table</varname> parameter
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modparam("imc", "rooms_table", "members")
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<varname>hash_size</varname> (integer)
The power of 2 to get the size of the hash table used for storing
members and rooms.
The default value is 4 (resultimg in hash size 16).
Set <varname>hash_size</varname> parameter
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modparam("imc", "hash_size", 8)
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<varname>imc_cmd_start_char</varname> (str)
The character which indicates that the body of the message is a command.
The default value is "#".
Set <varname>imc_cmd_start_char</varname> parameter
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modparam("imc", "imc_cmd_start_char", "#")
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Exported Functions
<function moreinfo="none">imc_manager()</function>
Handles Message method.It detects if the body of the message is a
conference command.If so it executes it, otherwise it sends the
message to all the members in the room.
This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE.
Usage of <varname>imc_manager()</varname> function
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# the rooms will be named chat-xyz to avoid overlapping
# with usernames
if(is_method("MESSAGE)
&& (uri=~ "sip:chat-[0-9]+@" || (uri=~ "sip:chat-manager@")
imc_manager();
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Exported MI Functions
<function moreinfo="none">imc_list_rooms</function>
Lists of the IM Conferencing rooms.
Name: imc_list_rooms
Parameters: none
MI FIFO Command Format:
:imc_list_rooms:_reply_fifo_file_
_empty_line_
<function moreinfo="none">imc_list_members</function>
Listing of the members in IM Conferencing rooms.
Name: imc_list_members
Parameters:
_room_ : the room for which you want to list the members
MI FIFO Command Format:
:imc_list_members:_reply_fifo_file_
_room_
_empty_line_
Exported Statistics
<function moreinfo="none">active_rooms</function>
Number of active IM Conferencing rooms.
IMC Commands
A command is identified by the starting character. A command must be
written in one line. By default, the starting character is '#'. You
can change it via "imc_cmd_start_char" parameter.
Next picture presents the list of commands and their parameters.
List of commands
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1.create
-creates a conference room
-takes 2 parameters:
1) the name of the room
2)optional- "private" -if present the created room is private
and new members can be added only though invitations
-the user is added as the first member and owner of the room
-eg: #create chat-000 private
2.join
-makes the user member of a room
-takes one optional parameter - the address of the room -if not
present it will be considered to be the address in the To
header of the message
-if the room does not exist the command is treated as create
-eg:join sip:chat-000@openser.org,
or just, #join, sent to sip:chat-000@openser.org
3.invite
-invites a user to become a member of a room
-takes 2 parameters:
1)the complete address of the user
2)the address of the room -if not present it will be considered
to be the address in the To header of the message
-only certain users have the right to invite other user: the owner
and the administrators
-eg: #invite sip:john@openser.org sip:chat-000@openser.org
or #invite john@openser.org sent to sip:chat-000@openser.org
4.accept
-accepting an invitation
-takes one optional parameter - the address of the room - if not
present it will be considered to be the address in the To header
of the message
-eg: #accept sip:john@openser.org
5.deny
-rejects an invitation
-the parameter is the same as for accept
6.remove
-deletes a member from a room
-takes 2 parameters:
1)the complete address of the member
2)the address of the room -if not present it will be considered
to be the address in the To header of the message
-only certain members have the right to remove other members
-eg: #remove sip:john@openser.org, sent to sip:chat-000@openser.org
7.exit
-leaving a room
-takes one optional parameter - the address of the room - if not
present it will be considered to be the address in the To header
of the message
-if the user is the owner of the room, the room will be destroyed
8.destroy
-removing a room
-the parameter is the same as for exit
-only the owner of a room has the right to destroy it
9.list
-list members in a room
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Installation
Before running IMC you have to create two new tables in database.
Use the next SQL statements for that.
IMC tables
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&sql;
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