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

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.5).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. 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: [email protected]
    password: secret
    to: [email protected]
    msg: Ansible task finished

- name: Send a message to a room
  community.general.jabber:
    user: [email protected]
    password: secret
    to: [email protected]/ansiblebot
    msg: Ansible task finished

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

Authors

  • Brian Coca (@bcoca)