Another Step Forward

Previously...

• I noted that the megaphone replies were missing the content-length header.
• I decided to try a simple pass-through.
• I got a simple pass-through to work.

I worked on getting a reasonably simple, single-connection program to work.  It's not quite there yet, but it's a lot further along than the multi-connection program.  


One thing that I did differently was that the ejabberd side was much simpler.  All that is really needed for an ejabberd module is to create a start function and a stop function.  To use the module create a line in the ejabberd.cfg file in the section for modules.  For example:


{modules,
    {mod_adhoc, []},
    ...
    {mod_simple, [7280]}
}


In this example, a module called mod_simple gets passed the parameter 7280.  The function would look something like this:


-module(mod_simple).
-export([start/2, stop/1, start_module/1]).
-behavior(gen_mod).
-include("ejabberd.hrl").


start(_Host, [Port]) ->
    spawn(?MODULE, start_module, [Port]),
    ok.


stop(_Ignored) ->
    ok.


start_module(Port) ->
    <do whatever>.


In the example above, the value passed to start for Port would be 7280.  


Next time: more ejabberd module details.