Dovetail

Dovetail is a toolkit for assembling XMPP components such as bots and PubSub (XEP-0060) servers.

Getting Started

Install switchboard:

$ sudo gem install mojodna-switchboard -s http://gems.github.com

Start the component:

$ bin/dovetail

You'll need to edit the DEFAULT_SETTINGS in bin/dovetail to point at a Jabber server with component access. You'll also need a second Jabber server that you can connect to as a client in order to make requests to the component.

(Asynchronously) query a web service with switchboard:

$ switchboard --jid client@xmpp-server --password pa55word \
    pubsub \
    --server component-server \
    --node "http://github.com/api/v1/json/mojodna/switchboard/commits/master" \
    items

This will query a node on your Jabber server for available (persisted) items. For "nodes" supported through Dovetail, this means that a GET request will be made to the URL corresponding to the node name and the response will be packaged up as a PubSub response.