Persistent muc room creation not working

I am trying to use the converse.js developer API to create a persistent multi-user chatroom. The room is created, but in the UI under ‘features’, the room is listed as Temporary.

I am using converse.js from the conversejs.org CDN:

<script src="https://cdn.conversejs.org/dist/converse.min.js"></script>

My code is as follows:

<script>
converse.plugins.add('larc-join-room', {
    initialize: function () {
    	var _converse = this._converse;
    	console.log(_converse);
    	_converse.on('connected', function (event) { 
  			var nick = $('#username').val().replace(" ", "").toLowerCase() + $('#user_id').val();
        	var roomname = $('#selected-document').val().replace(" ", "").toLowerCase() + '@conference.servername.co.uk'
        	var create_if_not_found = true;
        	_converse.api.rooms.open(
            roomname,
            {'nick': nick, 'auto_configure': true, 'roomconfig': {'persistentroom': true}}, false);
		});
    }
});

converse.initialize({
  bosh_service_url: 'https://servername/http-bind/',
  keepalive: true,
  debug: true,
  authentication: 'prebind',
  jid: $('#jabber_id').val(),
  prebind_url: 'https://servername/larc/get_bosh_data',
  show_controlbox_by_default: true,
  whitelisted_plugins: ['larc-join-room'],
  blacklisted_plugins: [
                'converse-dragresize',
                'converse-minimize',
                'converse-vcard'
            ]
});
</script>

Can you help me to fix this issue? Thanks.

[notnow123]

@jcbrand I can confirm that the fix works. roomconfig is now respected in MUC rooms created through the API.

[jcbrand]

@notnow123 I’ve committed a fix. Please check if it now works for you.

You won’t be able to use the CDN to test the fix. Instead you’ll have to clone this repo and then run make dist to generate a converse.min.js file which you can use.

You can still use the CDN CSS file.