Implement XEP-0198: Stream Management

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Daniel added a comment -

I extensively tested various Android Jabber clients under real-life conditions. Together with a friend under regular daily conditions (losing network when moving around in the building, changing from wifi to gsm and so forth) we lost about 10% of our communication, again without an indication which messages transmitted and which didn't. In conclusion XMPP on smartphones is not usable unless you sit still and do not move/risk dropping your data connection. Therefore I think this together with SMACK-331/XEP-0184 is one the most important issues to fix if we want to see XMPP on smartphones being a success.

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Daniel added a comment - I extensively tested various Android Jabber clients under real-life conditions. Together with a friend under regular daily conditions (losing network when moving around in the building, changing from wifi to gsm and so forth) we lost about 10% of our communication, again without an indication which messages transmitted and which didn't. In conclusion XMPP on smartphones is not usable unless you sit still and do not move/risk dropping your data connection. Therefore I think this together with SMACK-331/XEP-0184 is one the most important issues to fix if we want to see XMPP on smartphones being a success.
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Georg Lukas added a comment -

I am interested in writing some code for this. As I read the standard, it requires access to some internals of XMPPConnection, like counting the incoming and outgoing stanzas and keeping a list of the unacknowledged ones that have been sent and might need retransmission.

Should this be implemented inside of XMPPConnection or as an external module, creating additional interfaces when the existing ones are insufficient? Maybe even by subclassing XMPPConnection?

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Georg Lukas added a comment - I am interested in writing some code for this. As I read the standard, it requires access to some internals of XMPPConnection, like counting the incoming and outgoing stanzas and keeping a list of the unacknowledged ones that have been sent and might need retransmission. Should this be implemented inside of XMPPConnection or as an external module, creating additional interfaces when the existing ones are insufficient? Maybe even by subclassing XMPPConnection?
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Robin Collier added a comment -

Contributions are welcome, but design discussions and the like should probably be brought up in the forums, open_chat or private messages.

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Robin Collier added a comment - Contributions are welcome, but design discussions and the like should probably be brought up in the forums, open_chat or private messages.
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Dev Random added a comment -

I implemented this for the Guardian project. You are welcome to adapt the code to be a more integral part of smack. My design minimized the change to smack (actually asmack).

https://github.com/guardianproject/Gibberbot/pull/116
https://github.com/guardianproject/asmack/pull/5

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Dev Random added a comment - I implemented this for the Guardian project. You are welcome to adapt the code to be a more integral part of smack. My design minimized the change to smack (actually asmack). https://github.com/guardianproject/Gibberbot/pull/116 https://github.com/guardianproject/asmack/pull/5

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    Robin Collier
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    Robin Collier
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