MAtrix Support in Ejabberd 24.02

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WHile Digging though the Release notes of Ns8, i came accorss anUpdate for Ejabberd to version 24.02: here

This Pormpted me to look into the release notes for this Version, While doing so, i came accross this article.
Matrix gateway setup with ejabberd / ProcessOne (process-one.net)

I understand that Alot of suers on this forum use ejabberd, and even some enterprise customers of Nethesis.

WHile i understand that we would be supporting and creating a dedicated matrix App for NS8 with the help of @mrmarkuz and @kemboielvis22 . i think supporting the implementation of matrix within ejabberd in ns8 would be a welcome move.

this does not need to be on by default, and could be enabled by user on the admin/setting page however it would provide a nice introduction to the matrix federation, and would make it easier for users who don’t need a fully fledged matrix server and components, but have the need from time to time to send messages across the matrix federation.

@davidep and @stephdl what do you think about this?

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As ever a POC could be done to valid the feature, the ns8-ejabberd can be used a lab, and if the feature is not so experimental maybe it could be imported or simply the ns8-ejabberd could be forked to support all features

NethForge aims to support stability.

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our current ejabberd App already supports s2s
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we need to have matrix gateway module enables in ejabberd

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am not getting the parts about key

we then have the standard matrix process

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of creating a well-known json file on https://matrixdomain.com/.well-known/matrix/server

this gives a bit more context on the key

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Within the context of nethserver ejabberd, where and how are these defined?

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Under bin/expand-configuration

i can see the following

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my assumption at the moment is tht, these define the additional parameters in the ejabberd.yml file
within the givens ones in the context, only one parameter is defined per value.

WHat about if mutliple paramters are required?

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ejabberd 24.02 released Package ejabberd · GitHub

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now remaining to test and validate the matrix cinfig options, after implementation.

Do you think its possible to apply that configuration, without it being natively included in the App.
Basically though editing the ejabberd.yml

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edit the template not directly the file

then restart the module

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might be abit unrelated question.

SO, ejabberd has an ejabberd.yml file but for the sake of ns8 and being able to modify the file at runtime, we have a defined template with the same name, whcih when modifies updates the original config file.

is that whats happening here? in relation to this
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before to start the ejabberd service a script trigger to rewrite the template, I suppose you pointed it

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given me idea for another solution with multiple yml config files

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you can do it also with bash, but I like jinja template