This module offer the functionality of a presence user agent client, sending SUBSCRIBE and PUBLISH SIP messages. It's a core part of Kamailio's SIP presence package, implementing SIMPLE and various shared line appearance implementations.

It can be used with the following modules: pua_rpc, pua_usrloc, pua_bla, pua_dialoginfo, pua_reginfo and pua_xmpp. The pua_rpc module offer the possibility to publish any kind of information via the RPC transport. The pua_usrloc module calls a function exported by pua modules to publish elementary presence information, such as basic status "open" or "closed", for clients that do not implement client-to-server presence. Through pua_bla , BRIDGED LINE APPEARANCE features are added to Kamailio The pua_xmpp module represents a gateway between SIP and XMPP, so that jabber and SIP clients can exchange presence information. The pua_reginfo modules presents registration information from the usrloc module using the reginfo event package.

The module supports 2 modes of operation. In the first a cache is used to store the presentity list and writes to database on timer to be able to recover upon restart. The presence is kept in-memory during run-time. The second is a database only mode where the presentity list is stored purely in a database, allowing both scalability and resilience.

The module requires one table in the Kamailio database: pua. The SQL syntax to create it can be found in presence_xml-create.sql script in the database directories in the kamailio/scripts folder. You can also find the complete database documentation on the project webpage, https://www.kamailio.org/docs/db-tables/kamailio-db-devel.html.

This function binds the pua modules and fills the structure with the two exported functions.

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typedef struct pua_api {
	send_subscribe_t send_subscribe;
	send_publish_t send_publish;
	query_dialog_t is_dialog;
	register_puacb_t register_puacb;
	add_pua_event_t add_event;
} pua_api_t;
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Field type:

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typedef int (*send_publish_t)(publ_info_t* publ);
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This function receives as a parameter a structure with Publish required information and sends a Publish message.

The structure received as a parameter:

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typedef struct publ_info

  str id;             /*  (optional )a value unique for one combination
                          of pres_uri and flag */
  str* pres_uri;      /*  the presentity uri */	
  str* body;          /*  the body of the Publish message; 
                          can be NULL in case of an update expires*/ 	
  int  expires;       /*  the expires value that will be used in
                          Publish Expires header*/	
  int flag;           /*  it can be : INSERT_TYPE or UPDATE_TYPE
                          if missing it will be established according 
                          to the result of the search in hash table*/ 	
  int source_flag;    /*  flag identifying the resource ;
                          supported values: UL_PUBLISH, MI_PUBLISH,
                          BLA_PUBLISH, XMPP_PUBLISH*/
  int event;          /*  the event flag;
                          supported values: PRESENCE_EVENT, BLA_EVENT,
                          MWI_EVENT */
  str content_type;   /*  the content_type of the body if present
                          (optional if the same as the default value
                          for that event)*/
  str* etag;          /*  (optional) the value of the etag the request
                          should match */
  str* outbound_proxy;/*  outbound_proxy to use when sending the 
                          Publish request */
  str* extra_headers  /*  (optional) extra_headers that should be added
                          to Publish msg*/
}publ_info_t;
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Field type:

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typedef int (*send_subscribe_t)(subs_info_t* subs);
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This function receives as a parameter a structure with Subscribe required information and sends a Subscribe message.

The structure received as a parameter:

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typedef struct subs_info

  str id;              /*  an id value unique for one combination
                           of pres_uri and flag */
  str* pres_uri;       /*  the presentity uri */	
  str* watcher_uri;    /*  the watcher uri */
  str* contact;        /*  the uri that will be used in
                           Contact header*/  
  str* remote_target;  /*  the uri that will be used as R-URI
                           for the Subscribe message(not compulsory;
                           if not set the value of the pres_uri field
                           is used) */
  str* outbound_proxy; /*  the outbound_proxy to use when sending the 
                           Subscribe request*/
  int event;           /*  the event flag; supported value: 
                           PRESENCE_EVENT, BLA_EVENT, PWINFO_EVENT*/ 
  int expires;         /*  the expires value that will be used in
                           Subscribe Expires header */	
  int flag;            /*  it can be : INSERT_TYPE or UPDATE_TYPE
                           not compulsory */	
  int source_flag;     /*  flag identifying the resource ;
                           supported values:  MI_SUBSCRIBE, 
                           BLA_SUBSCRIBE, XMPP_SUBSCRIBE,
                           XMPP_INITIAL_SUBS */
}subs_info_t;
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Field type:

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typedef int  (*query_dialog_t)(ua_pres_t* presentity);
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This function checks is the parameter corresponds to a stored Subscribe initiated dialog.

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	if(pua_is_dialog(dialog) < 0)
	{
		LM_ERR("querying dialog\n");
		goto error;
	}
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Field type:

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typedef int (*register_puacb_t)(int types, pua_cb f, void* param );
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This function registers a callback to be called on receiving the reply message for a sent Publish or Subscribe request. The type parameter should be set the same as the source_flag for that request. The function registered as callback for pua should be of type pua_cb , which is: typedef void (pua_cb)(ua_pres_t* hentity, struct msg_start * fl); The parameters are the dialog structure for that request and the first line of the reply message.

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	if(pua.register_puacb(XMPP_SUBSCRIBE, Sipreply2Xmpp, NULL) & 0)
	{
		LM_ERR("Could not register callback\n");
		return -1;
	}
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typedef int (pua_cb)(ua_pres_t* hentity, struct sip_msg*);
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Field type:

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typedef int (*add_pua_event_t)(int ev_flag, char* name, 
   char* content_type,evs_process_body_t* process_body);

- ev_flag     : an event flag defined as a macro in pua module		
- name        : the event name to be used in Event request headers
- content_type: the default content_type for Publish body for 
                that event (NULL if winfo event)
- process_body: function that processes the received body before 
                using it to construct the PUBLISH request
                (NULL if winfo event)
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This function allows registering new events to the pua module. Now there are 4 events supported by the pua module: presence, presence;winfo, message-summary, dialog;sla, application/reginfo+xml. These events are registered from within the pua module.

Filed type for process_body:

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typedef int (evs_process_body_t)(struct publ_info* publ, 
  str** final_body, int ver, str* tuple);
- publ      : the structure received as a parameter in send_publish 
              function ( initial body found in publ->body)
- final_body: the pointer where the result(final_body) should be stored 
- ver       : a counter for the sent Publish requests
              (used for winfo events)
- tuple     : a unique identifier for the resource;
              if an initial Publish it should be returned as a result
              and it will be stored  for that record, otherwise it will
              be given as a parameter;    
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	if(pua.add_event((PRESENCE_EVENT, "presence", "application/pidf+xml", 
				pres_process_body) & 0)
	{
		LM_ERR("Could not register new event\n");
		return -1;
	}
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