Django Vestlus

vestlus is a django chat app with support for private and public channels.

Dependencies

Use of vestlus requires:

• django-polymorphic: used to handle inheritance between message models.
• django-crispy-forms: used for better formatting of forms in templates.
• django-restframework: used to provide REST api support.
• django-haystack: used to handle searching across channels and messages.

Those apps will need to be installed in the INSTALLED_APPS tuple of your django project.

Models

The app is split into three main models:

• channel: channels allow for group conversations. Any message sent to a channel is visible to every member of the channel. Channels can be either public or private.
• membership: memberships allow users to join, leave, and administer channels. Owners and admins can manage channel memberships.
• message: all messages are private (self to self); private (shared with somebody else); or

Installation

1. Add vestlus to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this::

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        # other apps...
        'vestlus',
    ]

Alternatively, you can also add this app like so::

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        # other apps...
        'vestlus.apps.VestlusConfig',
    ]

2. Include the polls URLconf in your project urls.py like this::

    path('chat/', include('vestlus.urls', namespace='vestlus')),

2.1. Optionally, you can also add the api endpoints in your project urls.py like so::

    path('api/', include('vestlus.api', namespace='vestlus_api')),

3. Run python manage.py migrate to create the app models.

4. Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ to start a add chat groups and messages (you'll need the Admin app enabled).

5. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/ to use the app. You should have the following urls added to your url schemes::

    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/channels/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/channels/new/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/channels/<slug:slug>
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/channels/<slug:channel>/messages/<slug:slug>/delete
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/channels/<slug:slug>/delete
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/channels/<slug:slug>/messages/new/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/memberships/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/memberships/<slug:slug>
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/memberships/<slug:slug>/new/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/messages/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/messages/<slug:slug>
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/messages/<slug:slug>/delete

5.1. If you've included the api urls as well, you can visit the endpoints by visiting::

    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/channels
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/channels/<pk>
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/channels/<uuid>
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/channels/<pk>/messages
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/channels/<uuid>/messages
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/channels/me
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/group-messages
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/group-messages/<pk>
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/memberships
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/memberships/<uuid>
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/messages
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/messages/<pk>
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/messages/notes

License

vestlus is BSD-Licensed.

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Developed and maintained by Leo Neto