growerp/growerp-chat

A separate chat java based companion for GrowERP to enable chat between employees and even customers and suppliers.

This is the last version which was used in GrowERP V0.9.5 This repository was then copied to the https://github.com/growerp/growerp/chat repository and maintained from there. So now from here discontinued

GrowERP chat

this is companion for flutter GrowERP to enable simple chatting in a room or privately between company employees and customers/suppliers. All messages are exchanged in JSON format.

It is a component which will run independently of the Moqui backend system but will communicate over a REST interface for user information and authorization.

to build: ./gradlew build to run in a jetty server locally: ./gradlew appRun

Relevant articles where this component is based on:

• A Guide to the Java API for WebSocket
• A nice simple introduction

The second one is easy to create locally. The first one a bit more difficult but was the basis of this component.

Interface to the Moqui server:

• a simple java http REST client: https://www.baeldung.com/java-http-request
• simple encode/decode json: https://www.w3schools.in/json/json-java/

start docker instance: docker run -p 8081:8080 -e "DATABASEBACKEND=http://host_ip_number:8080" chat