briar_repl 21.2.20

briar cli-messenger for briar:headless

briar_repl

async python repl cli chat client, to be used with briar-headless:

https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/tree/master/briar-headless

usage:

currently it features:

• contact listing
• contact adding
• contact removing
• contact renaming
• contacts pending list
• contacts display online status
• contacts display unread message count (currently per session only)
• direct chat with contacts
• briar link display
• command help

two modes:

• command mode (blue bottom bar)
• chat mode (green bottom bar)

commands in chat mode are called by pre-pending / so a /back or /exit_chat brings you back to command mode

commands are auto completed thanks to the amazing prompt_toolkit package:

https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit

installation:

install via pip:

needs python3.7 or higher: python3 -m pip install briar_repl

briar-headless.jar (1.2.12 or higher) would need to be available in:

~/.briar/headless/briar-headless.jar

install via flatpak

needs flatpak and flatpak builder, briar-headless is bundled in the flatpak.

build flatpak

with supplied yaml instructions: flatpak-builder --repo=build/flatpak/repo --install-deps-from=flathub --user --force-clean build/flatpak/build org.briarproject.briar_repl.yaml

build flatpak bundle

creates a flatpak file here: build/briar_repl.flatpak flatpak build-bundle build/flatpak/repo build/briar_repl.flatpak org.briarproject.briar_repl

install flatpak

install flatpak on current machine flatpak install --user build/briar_repl.flatpak

run the flatpak

flatpak run org.briarproject.briar_repl