Question

I am currently using SleekXMPP to build a simple XMPP client in Python. I’m a beginner though, and while I’ve read about stanzas, presence, roster, etc. I’m not sure how to get XML from the stream or how to handle it. I can’t find any documentation on this either.

So basically, what I’m wondering is, how do I make an event or a handler for something like a message? So I could call a function everytime a message is received or something.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

The SleekXMPP quickstart guide should help you get started with things like this.

The relevant part for handling messages is this line:

self.add_event_handler('message', self.message)

With self.message implemented as:

def message(self, msg):
    if msg['type'] in ('normal', 'chat'):
        msg.reply("Thanks for sending:\n%s" % msg['body']).send()