Using getPrimaryPresenceForEntity with CAXL

[ryan.pierce54]

I'm working on a user lookup feature and would like to provide a one time presence for the returned users (<10 at a time).  I could subscribe to each user as a quick contact and then unsubscribe once a presence has been received how ever the API seems to provide a function that should do what I'm looking for in client.getPrimaryPresenceForEntity(jid).  However when I call this function nothing is ever returned.  Does/should this function actually return the specified users presence as a one time request or am I missing the point of this function?

Thanks,

Ryan

[npetrele]

One thing I would check is to make sure your jid is a string.  Depending on where you got it, you might have to do a jid.toString();

Personally, I don't get presence manually like that.  I bind the presence event like this:

this.client.event("presenceReceived").bind(this.invocation('_updatePresence'));

And then handle it with _updatePresence like this:

        _updatePresence: function(evt) {

            var presence = evt.data;

When you add a quick contact, that should automatically generate a presence event for that contact, so you could capture it with the event.

[ryan.pierce54]

Thanks Nicholas,

I'm using that method to retrieve presence for a consistent list of users, but was hoping to avoid the hassle of subscribing, getting presence once and unsubscribing.  That sounds like my only option at this point.

[npetrele]

You can always use the entity itself to get the primary presence.

Identify the entity you want, and do:

entity.getPrimaryPresence();

You can iterate through the EntitySet and look for quick contacts.  I've never tested for a quick contact, but I assume something like this would work:

client.entitySet.each(function(entity) {

     if (entity instanceof jabberwerx.QuickContact) {

          somevariable = entity.getPrimaryPresence();

     }

}