Purpose and Scope

This plugin provides a clean, agent-oriented interface to the XMPP Publish-Subscribe Extension (XEP-0060), allowing SPADE agents to:

• Create and manage PubSub nodes

• Subscribe to nodes of interest

• Publish content to nodes

• Receive notifications when content is published

• Manage subscriptions and published items

SPADE PubSub serves as a bridging layer between SPADE’s agent-oriented architecture and the underlying XMPP Pu

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://spade-pubsub.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Node Creation and Management: Agents can create, delete, and purge nodes on a PubSub server, allowing flexible management of communication channels.

• Subscription to Nodes: Agents have the capability to subscribe and unsubscribe from specific nodes, facilitating the reception of relevant updates.

• Item Publication: Agents can publish items to subscribed nodes, efficiently distributing information to all subscribers.

• Item Management: It’s possible to retrieve all items published on a node and retract specific items when necessary.

• Notifications Without Items: Agents can send notifications to all subscribers of a node without the need to publish an item, useful for alerts or signals.

• Custom Callbacks: Functions can be registered to handle events such as item publication or retraction, allowing personalized responses to these events.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

0.3.0 (2025-07-16)

• Add support for slixmpp

0.2.1 (2025-05-19)

• Refactor code to imitate the response format of aioxmpp

• Improve documentation

0.2.0 (2024-12-17)

• Migration to the Slixmpp library for PubSub operations

• Refactor and fix of the previous tests

0.1.3 (2021-06-29)

• Minor bug fixed.

0.1.2 (2021-06-25)

• First release on PyPI.