Support/Live Chat/Node.js: Difference between revisions

The project has been codenamed "Inko" (Parakeet in Japanese). The repository for the new code is hosted on GitHub, at [http://github.com/endtwist/inko].  

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**'''^[√]'''Extract Django session data from database  

**'''^[√]'''Create new "chat session" ID cookie  

**'''^[√]'''Retrieve chat permissions from database  

**'''^[√]'''Add authentication check (against stored session) to each page load  

**'''^[√]'''Automatically authenticate user upon first load of chat system, if logged in. Otherwise, redirect them to the login.

**'''^[√]'''Build "Message" object that will contain all of the important message data and serialize it into a json object  

**'''^[√]'''Create a "Room" object that will allow both 1-on-1 and multi-user conversations to be initialized.  

**'''^[√]'''Guests should only be allowed in one room at a time?  

**'''^[√]'''How to hash room names/keep them private?  

**'''^[√]'''/message -&gt; allow users to create new Message objects with data  

*'''^[√]'''*Add filtering for messages that will strip any potentially-harmful data (&lt;tags&gt;, etc.)  

**'''^[√]'''Add CSRF verification.  

**'''^[√]'''/listen -&gt; add listener for new Message objects using long polling

**'''^[√]'''Allow authorized users (check perms) to join 1-on-1 rooms  

**'''^[√]'''Messages in rooms should be broadcast to all users  

**'''^{[ ]}'''Watchers should not be allowed to speak in rooms  

**'''^{[ ]}'''Add ability to pass conversations to other users  

**'''^{[ ]}'''Agent interface as reference implementation

*July 1: Group Chat &amp; Guest Interface

**'''^{[ ]}'''Guest interface as reference implementation

**'''^{[ ]}'''Multiuser rooms should have their own set of user permissions? (Op/H-Op?)

**'''^{[ ]}'''Add ability to kick users from chatrooms. Ban?

*July 6: Non-Authenticated Guests

*July 6 - 10: Summit 2010!

*July 15: Logging  

**'''^{[ ]}'''Message/conversation data needs to be logged somewhere

**'''^{[ ]}'''Chat queue status (queue positioning/time estimate)

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