DCN_Chat_Program/README.md

DCN_Chat_Program

[UIC Data Communication Workshop 24S Group Assignment2]

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Project Description

Our purpose is to create a chat room that allows local area users to freely communicate with each other one-on-one as well as group chat while ensuring individual privacy.

We also give administrators the ability to manage users and all chatting groups to ensure a friendly chatting environment.

And if users do not know how to operate, we will also have a prompt to guide them through.

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Project Structure

• Server-Side:
  1. Accept client connections & Receive messages.
  2. For each message, use regular expressions to determine its message type & response to sender.
• Client-Side:
  1. Send & Receive Messages.
  2. Announce available Username
  3. Client-Side Hints: #help & #quit.

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Features

1. Public/private chatting: Direct Message, Chatroom Message
2. Group Chatting: create, add by passcode, delete by admin, delete user by admin
3. Server-side Commands: delete client, shutdown Server
4. Client-side Hints: Help & Get online client names
5. Retry Mechanism: client username declaration, client connection
6. Only display messages posted by clients

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Usage

Public / Private Chatting

1. Public: <msg>
2. Private: @username <msg>

Group Chatting: Unordered List (Hash)

1. Create: Group @[<usernames>] Group name, password
2. Add: Group_add @Group name, password
3. Chat: @[Group name] <msg>
4. Group Admin Only:
   1. Delete: Group_del @Group name, password
   2. Del People: Group_delp @Group name, username, password