Simple chat client and server based on Pelix remote services, that mimics the ECF Chat demo (https://github.com/ECF/Chat). This is the base project to implement ECF providers for Pelix (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=421558).

This projects is based on Pelix/iPOPO, that can be installed using:

sudo pip-3 install iPOPO

It also requires jsonrpclib-pelix for the remote services part:

sudo pip-3 install jsonrpclib-pelix

This project uses random TCP (HTTP) ports, and the Remote Services discovery service is (for now) using UDP port 42000, in multicast. Let your firewall open for tests (an argument to define those ports will come soon).

Finally, the mDNS discovery (work in progress), is based on pyzeroconf by Mike C. Fletcher, at https://github.com/mcfletch/pyzeroconf. This library adds support for Zeroconf in Python 2 (not Python 3).

$ wget https://github.com/mcfletch/pyzeroconf/archive/master.zip
$ unzip master.zip
$ cd pyzeroconf-master
$ sudo python setup.py install

Run the main script with the --server argument.

python3 main.py --server

Run the main script with the --name argument.

python3 main.py --name Tom

You can then use the post chat command to talk to other clients :

$ post Hello, World !
> Tom: Hello, World !