A sockJS based Chat-Server/Chat-System primary using the SockJS protocol.

Home Page : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sockjsChat

Author

Anirban Roy Das

Email

anirban.nick@gmail.com

Copyright(C)

2016, Anirban Roy Das <anirban.nick@gmail.com>

Check sockjsChat/LICENSE file for full Copyright notice.

sockjsChat is a very basic Chat Server which can be set up locally to chat in your LAN. It supports both Public Chat among all participants connected simultaneously at a particular time and also Private Chat between those individual participants.

It uses the sockjs protocol to implement the real time message passing system. SockJS is implemented in many languages, primarily javascript to talk to servers in real time, which tries to create a duplex bi-directional connectin between the Client(browser) and the Server. The server should also implement the sockjs protocol. Thus, using the sockjs-tornado library which exposes the sockjs protocol in Tornado server.

It first tries to create a Websocket connection, and if it fails then it fallbacks to other transport mechanisms, such as ajax, long polling, etc.

You can read more about sockjs here

sockjs-client

Advanced Websocket Javascript Client

Tornado

Async Python Web Library + Web Server

sockjs-tornado

SockJS websocket server implementation for Tornado

1. python 2.7+
2. tornado
3. sockjs-tornado
4. sockjs-client

$ pip install sockjsChat

If the above dependencies do not get installed by the above command, then use the below steps to install them one by one.

Step 1 - Install pip

Follow the below methods for installing pip. One of them may help you to install pip in your system.

• Method 1 - https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
• Method 2 - http://ask.xmodulo.com/install-pip-linux.html
• Method 3 - If you installed python on MAC OS X via brew install python, then pip is already installed along with python.

Step 2 - Install tornado :

$ pip install tornado 

Step 3 - Install sockjs-tornado :

$ pip install sockjs-tornado

After having installed sockjsChat, just run the following command to use it :

• Start Server :

  $ sockjsChat [options]

• Options

  --port

  Port number where the chat server will start

• Example :

  $ sockjsChat --port=8765

• Stop Server

  Click Ctrl+C to stop the server.

1. Add Private Chat functionality.
2. Manage Presence Management, sent, delivered acknowledgements.
3. Message Persistence and delivery of messages to offline clients.
4. Add Blog post regarding this topic.