alvi09 / ezoic-intern-summer-2022-project

Ezoic Intern Summer 2022 Project

Assumptions

• Simple local, networking protocol communication through sockets
• Don't need webpage (i.e HTML, CSS, JS) or UI

Approach

• Setup server first so clients to connect by listening
• Connect clients to server to allow socket communication
• Implement multi-threading to handle multiple clients after 1 on 1 communication works
• Add small details

Libraries used

• import socket to handle communication between sockerts
• import threading to handle multi-threading to allow clients executing independently
• import colorama to color username text
• import sys

Decisions and tradeoffs

• OOP vs Procedural Programming
  • For this project, I took on a more procedural path since the server and client code didn't need to be reused or shared for other programs

Features

• Chatroom that allows multiple clients to communicate to everyone in the chat
• Implemented a help menu, a quit system, and a way to get current users in the chat
• Usernames have colors

Improvements

• If it were a bigger project

  • Display on webpage, style it, and make it look nice
  • Use a framework like React instead of Python's socket implementation

• If I had more time

  • Implement /kick function
    • Tried but there's a few bugs so didn't end up pushing
  • Implement possibly a /ban
  • Implement unique usernames
  • Implement a login system to store users and their passwords
  • Figure out why timestamps were inaccurate using multiple sockets.
    • Client2 ends up exceeding Client1's timestamp even though Client1 started first
  • Fix current bug issues:
    • Disconnection message isn't shown properly on exit on exception
    • Client1 has to enter their username first before Client2 can do anything