I'm currently working on a web-based chat application using Strophe.js as the XMPP client library and Ejabberd as the XMPP server. I'm attempting to implement support for retrieving chat history using XEP-0313: Message Archive Management (MAM), but I'm encountering difficulties.
My goal is to fetch the chat history for a particular user and display it in the chat interface. However, my current implementation seems to only return the count of messages, rather than the actual message content.
Here's a snippet of my code for retrieving the chat history:
const iq = $iq({
type: 'set',
id: 'juliet1',
}).c('query', {
xmlns: 'urn:xmpp:mam:2'
}).c('x', {
xmlns: 'jabber:x:data',
type: 'submit'
}).c('field', {
var: 'FORM_TYPE',
type: 'hidden'
}).c('value').t('urn:xmpp:mam:2').up().up().c('field', {
var: 'with'
}).c('value').t(jid).up().tree();
connection.sendIQ(iq, function(response) {
const message = response.getElementsByTagName('result');
console.log(response);
messages.forEach(message => {
const body = Strophe.getText(message.querySelector("body"));
const from = message.getAttribute('from');
displayMessage(from, body);
});
return true;
});
The issue I'm facing is that response.getElementsByTagName('result') doesn't return any messages, when console logging response i am getting only -
<iq xmlns="jabber:client" xml:lang="en" to="dev@localhost/1178459894898988032171235" from="dev@localhost" type="result" id="juliet1">
<fin xmlns="urn:xmpp:mam:2" complete="true">
<set xmlns="http://jabber.org/protocol/rsm">
<count>1</count>
<first>1707854878326932</first>
<last>1707854878326932</last>
</set>
</fin>
</iq>
I've double-checked my XMPP server configuration, and it seems to support MAM properly.
I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my code or if there's a better approach to retrieving chat history using Strophe.js and Ejabberd. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Strophe.js version: 1.6.0
Ejabberd version: 23.10.0
ejabberd.yml
mod_mam:
## Mnesia is limited to 2GB, better to use an SQL backend
## For small servers SQLite is a good fit and is very easy
## to configure. Uncomment this when you have SQL configured:
## db_type: sql
assume_mam_usage: true
default: always
Thank you in advance for your help!
note: - I have tested the query in Gajim XML console and it returns the messages.
I initially lacked knowledge on retrieving chat history. However, I later discovered some plugins that allowed me to retrieve chat messages from MAM.
I've created a function that retrieve messages from particular user by passing its JID
get_chat_history: function (jid) {
const q = {
onMessage: function (message) {
let msg = $(message).find("forwarded > message");
let body = msg.find("body").text();
return true;
},
onComplete: function (response) {
scroll_chat();
},
with: jid,
max: "100",
before: "",
};
connection.mam.query(Strophe.getBareJidFromJid(connection.jid), q);
}
in the above function
The plugins used to achieve this are:
Although achieving the same without using the plugins is possible:
get_chat_history: function (jid) {
const id = connection.getUniqueId();
let mamQuery = $iq({ type: "set", id: id })
.c("query", {
xmlns: "urn:xmpp:mam:2",
})
.c("x", { xmlns: "jabber:x:data", type: "submit" });
mamQuery
.c("field", { var: "FORM_TYPE", type: "hidden" })
.c("value")
.t("urn:xmpp:mam:2")
.up()
.up();
mamQuery.c("field", { var: "with" }).c("value").t(jid).up().up();
mamQuery
.up()
.c("set", { xmlns: "http://jabber.org/protocol/rsm" })
.c("max", {}, "100")
.c("before");
connection.sendIQ(mamQuery);
},
add handler to handler the retrieval of history messages
connection.addHandler(
function (iq) {
// iq will have the messages
},
"urn:xmpp:mam:2",
"message",
null
);