babble.server 1.0b1dev

A backend messaging server for Zope2.

Introduction

babble.server is a messaging service for Zope2 based systems.

It’s the chat server for babble.client, an instant messaging client for Plone, but it doesn’t have any dependencies on Plone or babble.client and is designed to be usable as a backend, independent of any frontend.

Features:

• User accounts: users must be registered for the chat service

• Security: most messaging actions requires the user to authenticate

• User status support: users can set their status, such as ‘busy’, ‘chatty’ or ‘invisible’.

• Web service: all public API methods return JSON strings.

• 100% test coverage.

Additional info:

For additional info, please read the documentation at http://opkode.net/babbledocs/babble.server/index.html

TODO:

• Make the read attr on messages a timestamp (instead of bool)

Contributors:

• JC Brand [e-mail]

• Alex Pilz [e-mail]

• Roche Compaan

Changelog

1.0b1 (2011-10-05)

• Major change, backwards incompatible to 0.x. Retrieve messages relative to timestamps, instead of marking them as read. [jcbrand]

0.3.1 (2011-01-18)

• Test for usernames of None in confirmAsOnline [jcbrand]

0.3 (2010-12-16)

• Added simple caching for the User Access Dict to lessen writes [jcbrand]

• Added the z3c.autoinclude plugin [jcbrand]

0.2 (2010-10-18)

• Converted message dates to UTC [pilz]

0.1 (2010-05-05)

• Added default title and id values for the Chat Service [jcbrand]

0.1a1 (2010-04-08)

• Initial release (jcbrand)