It is sometimes useful, while reading some conversations, to be reminded about it at some point in the future. This specification proposes a mechanism to allow clients to set up such reminders.
This protocol requires handling of dates and times, as such it conforms to XMPP Date and Time Profiles (XEP-0082) [1].
An entity may wish to discover if a service supports the Reminders feature; in order to do so, it sends a service discovery information query to the server..
<iq from='juliet@capulet.net/balcony'
id='disco1'
to='capulet.net'
type='get'>
<query xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#info'/>
</iq>If the server supports the Reminders feature, it MUST specify the 'urn:xmpp:reminders:0' feature in its service discovery information features as specified in Service Discovery (XEP-0030) [2]
<iq to='juliet@capulet.net/balcony' id='disco1' from='capulet.net'
type='result'>
<query xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#info'>
…
<feature var='urn:xmpp:reminders:0'/>
…
</query>
</iq>For end users, this provides a way to be reminded about stuff while being in a conversation, without the need to leave it and go to some calendar application or similar and create a full event there. By setting a reminder, a user will be notified by the server at whatever given time the reminder is created with and with whatever the description was set for such a reminder.
A user wants to create a new reminder. For creating a reminder, an entity MUST send an IQ stanza with the 'type' attribute with a value of "set" and a direct <reminder/> child qualified by the "urn:xmpp:reminders:0" namespace.
<iq from='juliet@capulet.net/balcony'
to='capulet.net'
id='abc123'
type='set'>
<reminder xmlns='urn:xmpp:reminders:0'>
<date>2020-02-19T23:41:00Z</date>
<text xml:lang='en'>Please go sleep before it's too late</text>
</reminder>
</iq>
<iq id='abc123'
to='juliet@capulet.net/balcony'
from='capulet.net'
type='result'>
<reminder xmlns='urn:xmpp:reminders:0' id='d414cec2-5369-11ea-9455-8b8d265047d9'>
<date>2020-02-19T23:41:00Z</date>
<text xml:lang='en'>Please go sleep before it's too late</text>
</reminder>
</iq>Whenever the reminder's data sent by a client is not complete or in an invalid format, the server MUST send an error stanza of type 'modify' and a 'bad-request' condition.
<iq id='bad1'
to='capulet.net'
from='juliet@capulet.net/balcony'
type='set'>
<reminder xmlns='urn:xmpp:reminders:0'>
<date>Tomorrow at noon</date>
<text xml:lang='en'>Lunch at Romeo's</text>
</reminder>
</iq>
<iq id='bad1'
to='juliet@capulet.net/balcony'
from='capulet.net'
type='error'>
<error type='modify'>
<bad-request xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/>
</error>
</iq>In the event of a client trying to set a reminder in the past, the server MUST send an error stanza of type 'modify' and a 'gone' condition.
<iq id='bad2'
to='capulet.net'
from='juliet@capulet.net/balcony'
type='set'>
<reminder xmlns='urn:xmpp:reminders:0'>
<date>2000-01-01T00:00:00Z</date>
<text xml:lang='en'>New Year's party</text>
</reminder>
</iq>
<iq id='bad2'
to='juliet@capulet.net/balcony'
from='capulet.net'
type='error'>
<error type='modify'>
<gone xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/>
</error>
</iq>Whenever the time for a reminder arrives, the server MUST send a message with the reminder to the creating entity.
<message from='capulet.net' to='juliet@capulet.net/balcony' id='reminder1'>
<reminder xmlns='urn:xmpp:reminders:0' id='d414cec2-5369-11ea-9455-8b8d265047d9'>
<date timezone='UTC'>2020-02-19T23:41:00Z</date>
<text xml:lang='en'>Please go sleep before it's too late</text>
</reminder>
</message>After sending a reminder, the server MAY choose to delete it from its storage.
There may be the case where a user wants to cancel an already set reminder. To do so, the client MUST send an IQ stanza of type 'set' with a 'reminder' child containing the 'id' attribute of the reminder to be deleted, without any additional child.
<iq id='abc2'
from='juliet@capulet.net/balcony'
to='capulet.net'
type='set'>
<reminder xmlns='urn:xmpp:reminders:0' id='d414cec2-5369-11ea-9455-8b8d265047d9'/>
</iq>
<iq id='abc2'
to='juliet@capulet.net/balcony'
from='capulet.net'
type='result'>
<reminder xmlns='urn:xmpp:reminders:0' id='d414cec2-5369-11ea-9455-8b8d265047d9'/>
</iq>As stated in the requirements, the 'date' element MUST contain a valid XMPP Date and Time Profiles (XEP-0082) [1] DateTime value.
This document introduces no additional security considerations above and beyond those defined in the documents on which it depends.
No interaction with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) [3] is required as a result of this document.
This specification defines the following XML namespace:
Upon advancement of this specification from a status of Experimental to a status of Draft, the XMPP Registrar [4] shall add the foregoing namespace to the registry located at <https://xmpp.org/registrar/namespaces.html>, as described in Section 4 of XMPP Registrar Function (XEP-0053) [5].
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1. XEP-0082: XMPP Date and Time Profiles <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0082.html>.
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@report{de vera piquero2020xep0435,
title = {Reminders},
author = {De Vera Piquero, Marcos},
type = {XEP},
number = {0435},
version = {0.1.0},
institution = {XMPP Standards Foundation},
url = {https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0435.html},
date = {2020-02-17/2020-03-31},
}END