Resource List Server

Anca-Maria Vamanu

   voice-system.ro

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Anca-Maria Vamanu

   Copyright © 2007 voice-system.ro
   Revision History
   Revision $Revision: 2492 $ $Date: 2007-07-20 14:04:13 +0300
                              (Fri, 20 Jul 2007) $
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   Table of Contents

   1. Admin Guide

        1.1. Overview
        1.2. Dependencies

              1.2.1. Kamailio Modules
              1.2.2. External Libraries or Applications

        1.3. Exported Parameters

              1.3.1. db_url(str)
              1.3.2. xcap_table(str)
              1.3.3. rlsubs_table(str)
              1.3.4. rlpres_table(str)
              1.3.5. clean_period (int)
              1.3.6. waitn_time (int)
              1.3.7. max_expires (int)
              1.3.8. hash_size (int)
              1.3.9. xcap_root (str)
              1.3.10. integrated_xcap_server (int)
              1.3.11. to_presence_code (int)
              1.3.12. rls_event (str)

        1.4. Exported Functions

              1.4.1. rls_handle_subscribe()
              1.4.2. rls_handle_notify()

        1.5. Installation

   2. Developer Guide

   List of Examples

   1.1. Set db_url parameter
   1.2. Set xcap_table parameter
   1.3. Set rlsubs_table parameter
   1.4. Set rlpres_table parameter
   1.5. Set clean_period parameter
   1.6. Set waitn_time parameter
   1.7. Set max_expires parameter
   1.8. Set hash_size parameter
   1.9. Set hash_size parameter
   1.10. Set integrated_xcap_server parameter
   1.11. Set to_presence_code parameter
   1.12. Set rls_event parameter
   1.13. rls_handle_subscribe usage
   1.14. rls_handle_notify usage

Chapter 1. Admin Guide

1.1. Overview

   The modules is a Resource List Server implementation following
   the specification in RFC 4662 and RFC 4826.

   The server is independent from local presence servers,
   retrieving presence information with Subscribe-Notify messages.

   The module uses the presence module as a library, as it
   requires a resembling mechanism for handling Subscribe.
   Therefore, in case the local presence server is not collocated
   on the same machine with the RL server, the presence module
   should be loaded in a library mode only (see doc for presence
   module).

   It handles subscription to lists in an event independent
   way.The default event is presence, but if some other events are
   to be handled by the server, they should be added using the
   module parameter "rls_events".

   It works with XCAP server for storage. There is also the
   possibility to configure it to work in an integrated_xcap
   server mode, when it only queries database for the resource
   lists documents. This is useful in a small architecture when
   all the clients use an integrated server and there are no
   references to exterior documents in their lists.

   The same as presence module, it has a caching mode with
   periodical update in database for subscribe information. The
   information retrieved with Notify messages is stored in
   database only.

1.2. Dependencies

1.2.1. Kamailio Modules

   The following modules must be loaded before this module:
     * a database module.
     * sl.
     * tm.
     * presence- in a library mode.
     * pua.

1.2.2. External Libraries or Applications

     * libxml.

1.3. Exported Parameters

1.3.1. db_url(str)

   The database url.

   Default value is "mysql://openser:openserrw@localhost/openser".

   Example 1.1. Set db_url parameter
...
modparam("rls", "db_url", "dbdriver://username:password@dbhost/dbname")
...

1.3.2. xcap_table(str)

   The name of the xcap table in which the integrated server or
   the xcap_client module writes. If integrated_xcap_server
   parameter not set, the name of the table must be the same as
   the one set for the xcap_client module.

   Default value is "xcap".

   Example 1.2. Set xcap_table parameter
...
modparam("rls", "xcap_table", "xcaps");
...

1.3.3. rlsubs_table(str)

   The name of the db table where resource lists subscription
   information is stored.

   Default value is "rls_watchers".

   Example 1.3. Set rlsubs_table parameter
...
modparam("rls", "rlsubs_table", "rls_subscriptions")
...

1.3.4. rlpres_table(str)

   The name of the db table where notified event specific
   information is stored.

   Default value is "rls_presentity".

   Example 1.4. Set rlpres_table parameter
...
modparam("rls", "rlpres_table", "rls_notify")
...

1.3.5. clean_period (int)

   The period at which to check for expired information.

   Default value is "100".

   Example 1.5. Set clean_period parameter
...
modparam("rls", "clean_period", 100)
...

1.3.6. waitn_time (int)

   The timer period at which the server should attempt to send
   Notifies with the updated presence state of the subscribed list
   or watcher information.

   Default value is "50".

   Example 1.6. Set waitn_time parameter
...
modparam("rls", "waitn_time", 10)
...

1.3.7. max_expires (int)

   The maximum accepted expires for a subscription to a list.

   Default value is "7200".

   Example 1.7. Set max_expires parameter
...
modparam("rls", "max_expires", 10800)
...

1.3.8. hash_size (int)

   The dimension of the hash table used to store subscription to a
   list. This parameter will be used as the power of 2 when
   computing table size.

   Default value is "9 (512)".

   Example 1.8. Set hash_size parameter
...
modparam("rls", "hash_size", 11)
...

1.3.9. xcap_root (str)

   The address of the xcap server.

   Default value is "NULL".

   Example 1.9. Set hash_size parameter
...
modparam("rls", "xcap_root", "http://192.168.2.132/xcap-root:800")
...

1.3.10. integrated_xcap_server (int)

   This parameter should be set if only integrated xcap servers
   are used to store resource lists.

   Default value is "0".

   Example 1.10. Set integrated_xcap_server parameter
...
modparam("rls", "integrated_xcap_server", 1)
...

1.3.11. to_presence_code (int)

   The code to be returned by rls_handle_subscribe function if the
   processed Subscribe is not a resource list Subscribe. This code
   can be used in an architecture with presence and rls servers
   collocated on the same machine, to call handle_subscribe on the
   message causing this code.

   Default value is "0".

   Example 1.11. Set to_presence_code parameter
...
modparam("rls", "to_presence_code", 10)
...

1.3.12. rls_event (str)

   The default event that RLS handles is presence. If some other
   events should also be handled by RLS they should be added using
   this parameter. It can be set more than once.

   Default value is ""presence"".

   Example 1.12. Set rls_event parameter
...
modparam("rls", "rls_event", "dialog;sla")
...

1.4. Exported Functions

1.4.1.  rls_handle_subscribe()

   This function detects if a Subscribe message should be handled
   by RLS. If not it replies with the configured to_presence_code.
   If it is, it extracts the dialog info and sends aggregate
   Notify requests with information for the list.

   This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE.

   Example 1.13. rls_handle_subscribe usage
...
For presence and rls on the same machine:
        modparam("rls", "to_presence_code", 10)

        if(is_method("SUBSCRIBE"))
        {
                $var(ret_code)= rls_handle_subscribe();

                if($var(ret_code)== 10)
                                handle_subscribe();

                t_release();
        }

For rls only:
        if(is_method("SUBSCRIBE"))
        {
                rls_handle_subscribe();
                t_release();
        }

...

1.4.2.  rls_handle_notify()

   This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE.

   Example 1.14. rls_handle_notify usage
...
if(method=="NOTIFY")
    rls_handle_notify();
...

1.5. Installation

   The module requires 2 table in Kamailio database:
   rls_presentity and rls_watchers.The SQL syntax to create them
   can be found in rls-create.sql script in the database
   directories in the kamailio/scripts folder. You can also find
   the complete database documentation on the project webpage,
   http://www.kamailio.org/docs/db-tables/kamailio-db-devel.html.

Chapter 2. Developer Guide

   The module provides no functions to be used in other Kamailio
   modules.
