community.general.jabber module – Send a message to jabber user or chat room

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.jabber.

Synopsis

  • Send a message to jabber

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python xmpp (xmpppy)

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

encoding

string

message encoding

host

string

host to connect, overrides user info

msg

string / required

The message body.

password

string / required

password for user to connect

port

integer

port to connect to, overrides default

Default: 5222

to

string / required

user ID or name of the room, when using room use a slash to indicate your nick.

user

string / required

User as which to connect

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Send a message to a user
  community.general.jabber:
    user: mybot@example.net
    password: secret
    to: friend@example.net
    msg: Ansible task finished

- name: Send a message to a room
  community.general.jabber:
    user: mybot@example.net
    password: secret
    to: mychaps@conference.example.net/ansiblebot
    msg: Ansible task finished

- name: Send a message, specifying the host and port
  community.general.jabber:
    user: mybot@example.net
    host: talk.example.net
    port: 5223
    password: secret
    to: mychaps@example.net
    msg: Ansible task finished

Authors

  • Brian Coca (@bcoca)