Use avatar image in xmpp and ejabberd

Question

I am creating a text chat application and using Ejabberd server and strophe.js.

I am using mssql as an external database for ejabberd. I transferred all users of the application to the users and freinds table in the usurer table ejabberd.

I want to specify the URL of the profile image as the avatar image of the ejabberd user.

Where to paste avatar url into ejabberd database? I checked the vcard table but didn’t run into the avatar image url?

Is it possible to handle it using the ejabberd database, or is ejabberd managing avatars inside?

If we can’t manage avatars in ejabberd, how can we use it with strophe.js ie sepcify avatar image and get other image avatars images?

Please, help

Answer 1

Install VCard Image from URL:

I know the profile picture of the user, and after connecting to the ejabberd server using strophe, I set the profile picture to vcard using the stanza stanza.

The following is an example of setting the image URL in vcard:

iq = $iq({ type: 'set', to: currentUserObj.jabberid+ "@" + CDomain }).c('vCard', { xmlns:'vcard-temp' }).c('PHOTO').c('EXTVAL', currentUserObj.profileImg); connection.sendIQ(iq); 

Hope this helps someone :)

Answer 2

I believe you can use the ejabberctl command from the command line to load avatar urls into a custom vcard.

 ejabberdctl set_vcard foo chat.myjabber.com PHOTO http://link_to_image.jpg ejabberdctl set_vcard2 foo chat.myjabber.com PHOTO EXTVAL http://link_to_image.jpg