SNS backend

Module Description

This module is a backend of mod_event_pusher that enables support for the Amazon SNS service. Currently there are 3 available notifications:

user presence changed - Carries the user id (bare jid by default) and a boolean field corresponding to the current user online status.
private message sent - Carries the user ids (both sender and receiver) along with the message body.
group message sent - Carries the user id and the room id (bare jids by default) along with the message body.

All these notifications are sent as a JSON string to Amazon SNS along with custom MessageAttributes (see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/api/API_Publish.html). MessageAttributes can be specified via a plugin module (more details in Options section).

Full topics for notifications (ARN as defined in Amazon Resource Names) are constructed as arn:aws:sns:{region}:{account_id}:{topic} where {region} and {account_id} are substituted with corresponding values from configuration options. {topic} is pulled from configuration option presence_updates_topic, pm_messages_topic or muc_messages_topic based on the notification type.

Options

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.presence_updates_topic`

Syntax: string
Default: no default is given
Example: presence_updates_topic = "user_presence_updated"

Defines Amazon SNS Topic for presence change notifications. Remove this option to disable these notifications.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.pm_messages_topic`

Syntax: string
Default: no default is given
Example: pm_messages_topic = "user_message_sent"

Defines Amazon SNS Topic for private message notifications. Remove this option to disable these notifications.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.muc_messages_topic`

Syntax: string
Default: no default is given
Example: muc_messages_topic = "user_messagegroup_sent"

Defines Amazon SNS Topic for group message notifications. Remove this option to disable these notifications.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.plugin_module`

Syntax: string
Default: "mod_event_pusher_sns_defaults"
Example: plugin_module = "mod_event_pusher_sns_defaults"

Sets a callback module used for creating user's GUID used in notifications (from user's JID) and for defining custom attributes attached to a published SNS message.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.sns_host`

Syntax: string
Default: none, this option is mandatory
Example: sns_host = "sns.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com"

URL to the Amazon SNS service. The URL may be in virtual host form, and for AWS needs to point at a specific regional endpoint. The scheme, port and path specified in the URL will be used to publish notifications via HTTP POST method.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.region`

Syntax: string
Default: none, this option is mandatory
Example: region = "eu-west-1"

The AWS region to use for requests.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.access_key_id`

Syntax: string
Default: none, this option is mandatory
Example: access_key_id = "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"

ID of the access key to use for authorization.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.secret_access_key`

Syntax: string
Default: none, this option is mandatory
Example: secret_access_key = "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY"

Secret access key to use for authorization.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.account_id`

Syntax: string
Default: none, this option is mandatory
Example: account_id = "123456789012"

12 digit number as defined in AWS Account Identifiers to use for creating TopicArn for publishing notifications.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.pool_size`

Syntax: positive integer
Default: 100
Example: pool_size = 100

Worker pool size for publishing notifications

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.publish_retry_count`

Syntax: non-negative integer
Default: 2
Example: publish_retry_count = 2

Retry count in case of a publish error.

`modules.mod_event_pusher_sns.publish_retry_time_ms`

Syntax: non-negative integer
Default: 50
Example: publish_retry_time_ms = 50

Base exponential backoff time (in ms) for publish errors.

Example configuration

[modules.mod_event_pusher]
  backend.sns.access_key_id = "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"
  backend.sns.secret_access_key = "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY"
  backend.sns.region = "eu-west-1"
  backend.sns.account_id = "123456789012"
  backend.sns.sns_host = "sns.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com"
  backend.sns.muc_host = "conference.HOST"
  backend.sns.plugin_module = "mod_event_pusher_sns_defaults"
  backend.sns.presence_updates_topic = "user_presence_updated"
  backend.sns.pm_messages_topic = "user_message_sent"
  backend.sns.muc_messages_topic = "user_messagegroup_sent"
  backend.sns.pool_size = 100
  backend.sns.publish_retry_count = 2
  backend.sns.publish_retry_time_ms = 50

JSON Schema examples

The different kinds of notifications deliver slightly different messages. The messages are delivered in a JSON format.

Presence updates

The JSON format for an online presence update notification is:

{
    "user_id": "alice@localhost",
    "present": true
}

For offline presence updates, the present boolean value is set to false:

{
    "user_id": "alice@localhost",
    "present": false
}

Sent messages

The JSON format for a private message notification is:

{
    "to_user_id": "bob@localhost",
    "message": "Hello, Bob",
    "from_user_id": "alice@localhost"
}

The notification is similar for group messages except that the to_user_id is the recipient room JID. For example:

{
    "to_user_id": "muc_publish@muc.localhost",
    "message": "Hi, Everyone!",
    "from_user_id": "bob@localhost"
}