RapidChat

• A Stomp protocol based chat application backend with persistence messaging for inbox and group chatting.

Accepted JSON formats

• Message JSON format:

  {
  "id":"message" //needs to be null when sending the message
  "senderID":"ID of the sender",
  "roomUID":"uuid of the room", 
  "channelID":"rabbitmq topic",
  "content":"content of the msg"
  }
  

• Room/group/inbox JSON format:

  {
  "id":"UUID of the room",
  "isGroup":"boolean",
  "chatName":"name of the chat to be displayed",
  "channelID":"rabbitmq topicid"
   }
  

• Signup JSON Format:

  {
  "username":"...",
  "password":"...",
  "confirmPassword":"..."
  } 
  

Instant Messaging Apis

To send messages you need to publish to this api

• /group
• /inbox

The above apis have accepts message json.

To receive Messages

• /topic/group.+topicID
• /topic/user.+topicID

The above apis sends message json.

Apis

All the contents inside of {...} are url params which should be supplied by client.

• GET /api/v1/create/room/user/dm/{user}: client needs to create inbox before being able to send message to another user.

• GET /api/v1/create/room/user/group/{name}: client needs to create group before being able to send message in the group

• POST /api/v1/signup: accepts signup JSON to create user.

• GET /api/v1/user/all/rooms: gets all the rooms in which user is present in.

• GET /api/v1/user/new/message:gets all the new messages from all the rooms.

• GET /api/v1/user/old/messages/inbox/{dm}/{offset}:gets the old messages of dm. Client needs to pass offset to fetch message. The path variable dm must be roomUID of the inbox.

• GET /api/v1/user/old/messages/group/{group}/{offset}:gets old messages of group. Client needs to pass offset to fetch message. The path variable group must be roomUID of the group.

Requirements for running the project

• Need to have installed postgresql with UUID extension enabled.
• Need to have rabbitmq installed with stomp plugin enabled.

How to run this project

• simply run ./gradle build you can find the jar file in build/libs folder.

• To run just use java -jar name-of-the-jar.jar

• _{^{Disclaimer you might need to change some configs to run the code if you have different username/pass/port.}}