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Project Name: Chatroom

Project Summary: Project will be a global chatroom where anyone who joins can communicate in the chat. New joiners will not see the previous chat history. Users can break out into separate rooms.

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Requirements:

A server that can handle multiple simultaneous clients

Handle sending data back and forth more so than just a simple string

Gracefully handle disconnects and server shutdowns

Provide the ability for the users to do something

Milestone $1$:

Server can be started via IDE or command line and listen for connections

Client can be started via IDE or command line and connect to the running server

Client can send messages to the server

Server can broadcast messages to all connected clients of a particular Room

Server will implement the concept of $$Rooms$$

Clients will have some sort of identifier to show who sent each message

Clients can disconnect and reconnect without crashing the server

The Server terminating should not terminate the clients as well

Clients should receive a disconnected message

Milestone $2$:

Server will have the functionality to switch users between $$Rooms$$

$($i$.$e$.,$ all start in $$Lobby$,$ but can then create or join existing rooms to be with a particular group$)$

Rooms will not have cross communication

Following the payload concept begin implementing some of the core functionality

Chat system $-$ Wrap messages in payload so extra data can be sent$/$received

I.e$.,$ Payload $\{$ message: $$text$,$ sender: $$username$\}$

Create a server$-$side function the processes message commands $($i$.$e$.,/$roll$,/$flip$)$ and broadcasts the result to all clients

$/$roll will handle two different formats

Format $1$: $/$roll $0-$ X or $1-$ X

Example: $/$roll $100$

let me know which value you choose to start at

Format $2$: $/$roll #d#

Example: $/$roll $2$d$6$

$/$flip will return heads or tails $($like a coin toss$)$

Create a server$-$side function that processes messages to change text display that$$s broadcasted to all clients $($for this milestone just show the altered text symbols, we won$$t be able to see the effects until Milestone $3)$

Bold

Italics

Color $($at least Red, Green, Blue options or code to support color hex codes$)$

Underline

Note: Having the user type out html tags is not valid for this feature, instead treat it like WhatsApp, Discord, Markdown, etc

Note: Each text trigger must wrap the text that you want to affect

Milestone $3$:

Create a UI Page$/$Panel for connecting to the server

Username $($don$$t allow spaces$)$

Host

Port

Create a UI Page for the chatroom

List of users in the room

Text area for the chat history

Input field for typing messages

Button for sending messages

Pressing enter should also submit the button if the input field isn$$t empty

Results from $/$flip and $/$roll appear in a different format than regular chat text

Custom text display functions appear correctly in the chat area $($i$.$e$.,$ last feature of Milestone $2)$

Messages that precede with @username will send the message privately to the user denoted by the username

The writer and the receiver are the only two that will receive the message from the server

It$$s not valid to just hide it on the client$-$side $($i$.$e$.,$ data must not be sent from the server$)$

The following commands will be implemented server$-$side

mute username

Prevents the user from receiving messages from the target user

unmute username

Allows the user to receive messages from the target user $($if they were previously muted$)$

Milestone $4$:

Client can export the chat history of their current session $($client$-$side$)$

Client$$s mute list will persist across sessions $($server$-$side$)$

Based on username match

Clients will receive a message when they get muted$/$unmuted by another user

$($i$.$e$.,$ Bob muted you$)$

This message should only be sent if muted becomes unmuted or unmuted becomes mute, it$$s not an opportunity to create a spam mechanism

The user list should update per the status of each user

Muted users appear grayed out

Last person to send a message gets highlighted