Siemple Chat

Simple chat using Python Channels and Celery

Before you start

The project uses redis as broker for the messages. Before running the server you should start a redis server, it can be done easily with docker:

$ docker run -p 6379:6379 redis:2.8

After that

Start server

First of all, clone the repository, install requirements and initialize the database:

$ git clone https://github.com/klapen/simplechat.git
$ cd simplechat/src
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 manage.py loaddata fixtures/users

Loaddata command will load 3 users to test:

Username	Password	Role
admin	12345	admin
usertest1	us112345	user
usertest2	us212345	user

Second of all start the chat server:

$ cd simplechat/src
$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py runserver

And finally, start the message queue workers:

$ cd simplechart/src
$ celery -A simplechat worker -l info

How to use

Open on a web browser a login page and enter a valid username and password. It will redirect you to the chat room creating page.

Enter a chat room name and press enter and you are now able to send messages.

If you want to use the stock quote bot, send a the command /stock=stock_code. The stock code must be a valid stock code for Stooq webpage. It will return the followin message:

Bot stock: [stock_code] quote is ${value} per share

Where stock_code is the requested code and the value is the closing value.

Release note

v1.0: Functionality working with coupled stock quote bot
v2.0: Functionality working using a message broker for bots
v2.1: Fix bugs - Remove files and templates errors
v2.2: Fix bugs - Filter by room and automatic web socket reconnection