mod_muc_log alternative for logging to DB

[Dunedan]

Is there an alternative to mod_muc_log somewhere which supports logging to a relational database instead of files?

[Dunedan]

To follow up on that: After looking at the code I realized mod_muc explicitly calls into functions of mod_muc_log for logging. If I'm not mistaken that makes it impossible to write a module doing logging in another way, without modifying mod_muc as well.

I'm not familiar with Erlang, but I wonder if there would be a possibility to handle that differently, so alternative MUC logging modules could exist.

[badlop]

I am not aware of any other module for MUC room logging.

Right, as you noticed, right now mod_muc_room directly calls erlang functions in mod_muc_log. This could be replaced with calls to ejabberd_hooks, and that would allow developers to write alternative modules, and administrators to enable the desired one/ones.

As a first experiment, I've applied that proposed change in my fork of ejabberd, see badlop@5262975

There's also an example module, see badlop@0080c8e

[Dunedan]

I played around with that a bit and implemented a rudimentary module for logging to a database. Unfortunately, without proper Erlang experience I doubt I'll be able to get that into a polished state for the time being.

Your changes to introduce ejabberd hooks do work great as far as I can see, so I'd appreciate if you could merge that to offer flexibility for additional logging modules.

[badlop]

Ok, I've merged that patch into ejabberd: d04f92d