Chat Registration System

The basic backend code needed to register & login to a chat system (to be built). Send it the unhashed username and pin, and it'll store it in the users.json file with the pin hashed with SHA1.

API Documentation

POST /api/register/<name>/<pin>/<pronouns> Register the username with the pin provided if it doesn't already exist

GET /api/users/<name> Check if the user exists

GET /api/users/<name>/<pin> Check if the user exists, and if the pin provided matches

POST /api/users/change/<name>/<pin>/<new-name>/<new-pin> Change a users pin/name

GET /api/about/name/<name> Get's the name of a user, probably just for checking if they exist

GET /api/about/pronouns/<name> Get's the pronouns of a user

Chat Planning

Clientside js will register & check login of users, if login is correct will ask for a random token. Backend will generate token, store it, and then send it to the client to set as a cookie. Whenever user sends a message, client will send message & token and backend will check if token matches.

To-Do:

• Basic auth api
• Return json instead of string
  • status is main thing to deal with, ok/fail/panic
  • reason is for more details, mainly just for debugging?
• Basic messaging system
  • Finish up chat::create_message()
  • Create chat::read_messages()
  • Create chat::delete_message()
  • Different types of message events? eg. default, announcement, command
  • Emote support?
• Token generation & storage
  • API to refresh token
  • Store token in json
  • API to check token?
• Pronouns
  • Change pronouns
  • Multiple sets of pronouns
• Some form of plural support?
• User management (banning, etc.)
• Blacklist words from chat/names