Jabber Task

Description

A task to send a message to an XMPP (Jabber) user. Requires the use of Jive Software's smack API library. to connect to an XMPP server.

Attribute	Description	Required
host	Host of the XMPP server to connect.	yes
port	Port number of the XMPP server to connect.	No.
secure	whether or not to make an SSL connection to the XMPP server.	No. default is false.
from	Buddy name of the sender. This is a user name to be used to connect to the XMPP server. The user must exist (as we will see below)	attribute
password	password of jabber "from" user.	attribute
to	user to send message.	At least one of these, or the equivalent elements.
tolist	Comma-separated list of users to send messages.	At least one of these, or the equivalent elements.
message	Message to send to user/buddies.	This or a `<message>` element.

Parameters specified as nested elements

to

Adds a user element. It takes no attributes.

message

Specifies the message to include in the IM.

Examples

Example 1

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  <taskdef name="jabber" classname="com.tfftech.ant.taskdefs.im.jabber.JabberTask" /> 
  <target name="main">
  <jabber host="somejabberserver.com" from="buildmaster" to="otherimname" password="pass">
  	<message>The nightly build has completed</message> 
  </jabber>
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Sends an IM from buildmaster to otherimname@jabberserver.com, authenticating with the password pass. The IM sent is "The nightly build has completed".

Example 2

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  <taskdef name="jabber" classname="com.tfftech.ant.taskdefs.im.jabber.JabberTask" />
  <target name="main">
  <jabber host="somejabberserver.net" from="buildmaster" password="passwd" tolist="user1@somekindabuildplace.org,user2,user3">
        <message>The nightly build has completed</message>
  </jabber>
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Sends an IM from builduser to multiple users user1@somekindabuildplace.org,user2@somejabberserver.net and user3@somejabberserver.net, authenticating on somejabberserver.net's XMPP server with the password pass. The IM sent is "The nightly build has completed".

The following is equivalent to the above (Example 2):

Example 3

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  <taskdef name="somejabberserver.org" classname="com.tfftech.ant.taskdefs.im.jabber.JabberTask" />
  <target name="main">
  <jabber host="whoknowswher-e.net" from="buildmaster" password="pass">
        <to>user1@somekindabuildplace.org</to>
        <to>user2</to>
        <to>user3</to>
        <message>The nightly build has completed</message>
  </jabber>
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