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