Contact management

This section will present how to find and add a contact from the DHT to the client. The usage of a name server will not be explained here. If you’d like more details about that, please read Name Server protocol.

Presence on the network

Announce the presence on the DHT

The presence is pretty simple to announce on the DHT. In fact, it’s just a value containing the device hash (see the previous section, Account management) on the hash corresponding to the fingerprint of the key. So, if we have the account bf5f1e21d3eb2c1246946aa49d5dcf3e5b9cb1b9 with the device 62fbdff0ce86f368c7d3c2682539e5ba9e06404f, the following defined value will be sent over the DHT:

/**
 * Device announcement stored on DHT.
 */
struct DeviceAnnouncement : public dht::SignedValue<DeviceAnnouncement>
{
private:
    using BaseClass = dht::SignedValue<DeviceAnnouncement>;

public:
    static const constexpr dht::ValueType& TYPE = dht::ValueType::USER_DATA;
    dht::InfoHash dev;
    std::shared_ptr<dht::crypto::PublicKey> pk;
    MSGPACK_DEFINE_MAP(dev, pk)
};

(This value can be put with dht_.put(h, VALUE, dht::DoneCallback{}, {}, true);, as a permanent put). If the device is announced, the device is present. For now, there is no way to delete or edit a value on the DHT (this will come when OpenDHT will supports ECC). So, the presence always have a delay for now (mean delay: expire-time/2, so 2min30 for now).

Get if a contact is present

Now our presence on the network, it’s time to get if somebody is present on the DHT. With the previous section, it’s easy to do the reverse process. To know if somebody is present on the DHT (ex: bf5f1e21d3eb2c1246946aa49d5dcf3e5b9cb1b9), we have to get value at bf5f1e21d3eb2c1246946aa49d5dcf3e5b9cb1b9 and retrieve the DeviceAnnouncement on this hash. The related code in the ring daemon is in ringaccount.cpp:

auto shared = std::static_pointer_cast<RingAccount>(shared_from_this());
auto treatedDevices = std::make_shared<std::set<dht::InfoHash>>();
dht_.get<dht::crypto::RevocationList>(to, [to](dht::crypto::RevocationList&& crl){
    tls::CertificateStore::instance().pinRevocationList(to.toString(), std::move(crl));
    return true;
});
dht_.get<DeviceAnnouncement>(to, [shared,to,treatedDevices,op](DeviceAnnouncement&& dev) {
    if (dev.from != to)
        return true;
    if (treatedDevices->emplace(dev.dev).second)
        op(shared, dev.dev);
    return true;
}, [=](bool /*ok*/){
    {
        std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> lock(shared->buddyInfoMtx);
        auto buddy_info_it = shared->trackedBuddies_.find(to);
        if (buddy_info_it != shared->trackedBuddies_.end()) {
            if (not treatedDevices->empty()) {
                for (auto& device_id : *treatedDevices)
                    shared->onTrackedBuddyOnline(buddy_info_it, device_id);
            } else
                shared->onTrackedBuddyOffline(buddy_info_it);
        }
    }
    RING_DBG("[Account %s] found %lu devices for %s",
                getAccountID().c_str(), treatedDevices->size(), to.to_c_str());
    if (end) end(shared, not treatedDevices->empty());
});

And that’s all.

Client perspective

<method name="subscribeBuddy" tp:name-for-bindings="subscribeBuddy">
    <tp:docstring>
        Ask be be notified when 'uri' presence change
    </tp:docstring>
    <tp:added version="1.3.0"/>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID" direction="in">
        <tp:docstring>
            An account from which get request presence informations
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="uri" direction="in">
        <tp:docstring>
            A SIP uri to watch
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="b" name="flag" direction="in">
        <tp:docstring>
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
</method>

<signal name="newBuddyNotification" tp:name-for-bindings="newBuddyNotification">
    <tp:added version="1.3.0"/>
    <tp:docstring>
        Notify when a registered presence uri presence informations changes
    </tp:docstring>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID">
        <tp:docstring>
            The associated account
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="buddyUri">
        <tp:docstring>
            The registered URI
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="i" name="status">
        <tp:docstring>
            Is the URI present or not
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="lineStatus">
        <tp:docstring>
            A string containing informations from the user (human readable)
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
</signal>

<method name="publish" tp:name-for-bindings="publish">
    <tp:added version="1.3.0"/>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID" direction="in">
        <tp:docstring>
            The account from which the presence will be emitted
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="b" name="status" direction="in">
        <tp:docstring>
            Is this account present or not
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="note" direction="in">
        <tp:docstring>
            A message transmitted by the server to other users
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
</method>

Are the main APIs for clients. subscribeBuddy will listen on the DHT to detect presence changes and newBuddyNotification will be sent whenever a new status is detected:

• The status sent to the client is now 0=offline (no device found on the DHT), 1=dht_presence (at least a device is found on the DHT), 2=connected (with a TCP + SIP channel, so ready to exchange data).

• lineStatus will contain any custom status sent by the peer (e.g. Lunch Time!)

publish is used for publishing a custom note (status is ignored for Jami accounts, note will contain the custom status).

RFC3863 is used to send status over the SIP connection.

Pending request

Send a request

TODO craft request

Finally, once the trust request is crafted, we can push the request to the following hash: InfoHash("inbox:" + deviceId)

The following code is used in the daemon:

dht_.putEncrypted(dht::InfoHash::get("inbox:"+dev.toString()), dev, dht::TrustRequest(DHT_TYPE_NS, payload));

Receiving a request

TODO

(Accept/Block/Discard)

Daemon API

All methods to follow the presence of a buddy is located in the PresenceManager such as:

<signal name="newBuddyNotification" tp:name-for-bindings="newBuddyNotification">
    <tp:added version="1.3.0"/>
    <tp:docstring>
        Notify when a registered presence uri presence informations changes
    </tp:docstring>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID">
        <tp:docstring>
            The associated account
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="buddyUri">
        <tp:docstring>
            The registered URI
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="b" name="status">
        <tp:docstring>
            Is the URI present or not
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="lineStatus">
        <tp:docstring>
            A string containing informations from the user (human readable)
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
</signal>

All methods and signals used to manage trust requests and contacts are in the ConfigurationManager such as:

<method name="getTrustRequests" tp:name-for-bindings="getTrustRequests">
    <tp:added version="2.2.0"/>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <annotation name="org.qtproject.QtDBus.QtTypeName.Out0" value="VectorMapStringString"/>
    <arg type="aa{ss}" name="requests" direction="out" >
        <tp:docstring>
            A list of contact request details. Details:
            - from: account ID of sender
            - received: UNIX timestamp of reception date
            - payload: attached payload
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
</method>

<method name="acceptTrustRequest" tp:name-for-bindings="acceptTrustRequest">
    <tp:added version="2.2.0"/>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="from" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <arg type="b" name="success" direction="out" tp:type="Boolean">
        <tp:docstring>
            True if the operation succeeded.
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
</method>

<method name="discardTrustRequest" tp:name-for-bindings="discardTrustRequest">
    <tp:added version="2.2.0"/>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="from" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <arg type="b" name="success" direction="out" tp:type="Boolean">
        <tp:docstring>
            True if the operation succeeded.
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
</method>

<signal name="incomingTrustRequest" tp:name-for-bindings="incomingTrustRequest">
    <tp:added version="2.2.0"/>
    <tp:docstring>
        Notify clients that a new contact request has been received.
    </tp:docstring>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID">
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="from">
    </arg>
    <arg type="ay" name="payload">
    </arg>
    <arg type="t" name="receiveTime">
    </arg>
</signal>

<method name="sendTrustRequest" tp:name-for-bindings="sendTrustRequest">
    <tp:added version="2.2.0"/>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="to" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <arg type="ay" name="payload" direction="in">
    </arg>
</method>

<method name="addContact" tp:name-for-bindings="addContact">
    <tp:added version="3.0.0"/>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="uri" direction="in">
    </arg>
</method>

<method name="removeContact" tp:name-for-bindings="removeContact">
    <tp:added version="3.0.0"/>
    <arg type="s" name="accountID" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <arg type="s" name="uri" direction="in">
    </arg>
    <arg type="b" name="ban" direction="in" tp:type="Boolean">
        <tp:docstring>
            True if the the contact should be banned.
            If false, the contact is removed from the contact list (banned or not).
        </tp:docstring>
    </arg>
</method>

If you want some examples, these methods are used into contactmodel.cpp in LRC.