FlaskChat

Semestral work - (MI-DSV)

Flaskchat is an application, which provides distributed chat for multiple users. The application uses a leader to provide time synchronisation of regular messages. Chang and Roberts algorithm is used for election of the leader. This is a semestral work for subject MI-DSV at CTU in Prague. The communication between nodes is implemented using requests and and every node of a chat is Flask server.

Instalation

First, you need to clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/HalfDeadPie/FlaskChat

Then you can install it using pip:

pip install FlaskChat/

Usage

To run the Flaskchat application, you need to write a command:

flaskchat [OPTIONS] IPPORT FRIEND

• OPTIONS

  may be -d/--debug for debug logging

• IPPORT

  is your IP address and port for Flask server, use formatting ip:port

• FRIEND

  is IP address and port for Flask server of a friend, who uses FlaskChat. Your friend may be alone or joined in chatgroup already. Use formatting ip:port

• Example:

  flaskchat 192.168.122.1:5001 192.168.122.9:5009 -d
  

Testing

Application has been tested on 5 virtual machines (Kali Linux).