/ktor-chat-server

A chat server based on the excellent Ktor coroutine framework!

Primary LanguageKotlin

ktor-chat-server

A chat server based on the excellent Ktor coroutine framework!

API

The chat server runs on http://localhost:8081 and supports the following REST API:

  1. GET /messages

    list 100 most recent messages, sorted by 'timestamp' posted to the chat server.

    curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8081/messages

{
  "messages: [
    {"timestamp": 1491345710.18, "user": "superman", "text": "hello"},
    {"timestamp": 1491345713.18, "user": "batman", "text": "hello"}
  ]
}

  2. POST /message

    a request to post the given message. when the message is processed by the server a unix timestamp is recorded with each message.

    curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"user":"superman", "text":"hello"}' http://localhost:8081/message

{
  "ok": true
}

  3. GET /users

    a request to return a set of users that have posted messages so far.

    curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8081/users

{
  "users": [
    "superman", "batman"
  ]
}