easygamechat 0.2.0

An easy and secure Python library for real-time game chat

EasyGameChat

EasyGameChat is a minimal, secure, and cross-platform chat server and client library designed for real-time communication in games or applications. It aims to provide simple, fast integration across multiple languages with a JSON-based protocol and message validation system.

Features

• Lightweight and efficient server implementation in Go
• Secure and strict input validation
• Modular server-client architecture
• Cross-language support (C++, Python, and more to come)
• JSON-based protocol for easy parsing
• Thread-safe and rate-limited message broadcasting

Getting Started

Server (Go)

1. Install Go 1.18 or later.
2. Run the server:

go run main.go

Client (C++)

1. Include EasyGameChat.h in your project.
2. Install the required dependencies (only nlohmann/json for JSON parsing, for now) with your preferred package manager. On Windows, you can specify your preferred toolchain in the CMake build command with -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=path/to/your/toolchain.cmake.
3. Compile and run the example:

cd examples/c-cpp
cmake -B build -S .
# If using vcpkg, specify the toolchain file:
cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:\path\to\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake
cmake --build build
./build/chat-client

Client (Python)

cd clients/python
python -m build
python -m pip install .\dist\easy_game_chat-0.2.0-py3-none-any.whl
# or install directly from the source
pip install .
python examples/python/main.py

Protocol

Messages follow a simple JSON format:

{
  "from": "nickname",
  "text": "message content"
}

All input is sanitized and validated server-side to prevent injection, malformed data, or abuse.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.