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# Websocket chat example
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This is a multi-threaded chat server example.
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Fancy shiny features:
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- Browser-based WebSocket client served from static html+js
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- Chat server runs in separate thread
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- Tcp listener runs in separate thread
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- Application state is shared with the websocket server and a resource at `/count/`
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- Uses actors for improved readability of code in the server.rs implementation
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## Server
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1. Chat server listens for incoming tcp connections. Server can access several types of message:
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- `/list` - list all available rooms
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- `/join name` - join room, if room does not exist, create new one
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- `/name name` - set session name
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- `some message` - just string, send message to all peers in same room
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- client has to respond to heartbeat `Ping` messages, if server does not receive a heartbeat 'Pong' message for 10 seconds connection gets dropped
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2. [http://localhost:8080/count/](http://localhost:8080/count/) is a non-websocket endpoint and will affect and display state.
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To start server use the following
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```sh
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cd websockets/chat
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cargo run --bin websocket-chat-server
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```
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## WebSocket Browser Client
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- Open in browser: <http://localhost:8080/>.
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- Use two tabs to set up a proper conversation.
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## Python Client using aiohttp
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- Client connects to server. Reads input from stdin and sends to server.
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- Create a venv environment `python3 -m venv venv`.
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- Launch venv environment `source ./venv/bin/activate`.
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- Fetch the needed python libraries `pip3 install -r requirements.txt`.
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- Then start client as `./client.py`.
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