Hi Amit,
On Thu Mar 22 2007, Amit Fein wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but currently the whole search mechanism
> (XEP-0055) is based on 4 constant fields : first name, last name, nick &
> email.
> we need a more generic mechanism that will handle any given search
> fields, so, for example, the function Search::fetchSearchFields should
> return an array of strings (i.e - array of search fields), and the
> search itself will look for these tags in the XML file, and not constant
> tags like "FirstName".
XEP-0055 originally evolved around those 4 fields. Later it was extended by
DataForms, which you can use to search in arbitrary fields. The flexibility
depends only on what the server-side XEP-0055 implementation offers.
Wild/Openfire's search plugin is an example of such a service that uses
DataForms.
cheers,
Jakob
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