This peer-to-peer (P2P) chat application consists of two main components: a ChatServer and a ChatClient. The server is responsible for managing connections and broadcasting messages, while the client is responsible for connecting to the server and sending/receiving messages. The application also utilizes a MongoDB database to store messages and their metadata.
The ChatServer class has the following main methods:
__init__(self, host='127.0.0.1', port=55556): Initializes the server, binds it to the specified IP and port, sets up a socket, and initializes a connection to a MongoDB database.
start(self): Starts the server, listens for incoming connections, and creates a new thread to handle each client connection.
handle_client(self, conn): Handles incoming messages from clients. It stores the messages in the MongoDB database and broadcasts them to all connected clients except the sender.
broadcast(self, message, sender_conn): Sends a message to all connected clients except the sender.
When executed, the server starts and listens for incoming connections.
The ChatClient class has the following main methods:
__init__(self, host='127.0.0.1', port=55556): Initializes the client, sets the specified IP and port, and creates a socket.
connect(self): Connects the client to the server and starts a new thread to handle incoming messages from the server. Allows the user to send messages to the server.
handle_server(self): Handles incoming messages from the server and displays them to the user.
When executed, the client connects to the server and allows the user to send and receive messages.
The data base componet uses mongoDB to store the content of every message along with basic metadata like IP-address, and a timestamp. This occurs within the server and should display an error if a message isn't able to be properly saved.
