babble.client 1.3

Babble: Instant messaging client for Plone

Introduction

Babble: Instant Messaging for Plone

Babble is an instant messaging service for Plone. It consists of babble.client as the Plone front-end client and babble.server, a Zope2 messaging service, as the backend chat service.

The client consists of an Online contacts portlet with which you can initiate new chats. Chat sessions occur in modal dialog chatboxes which make use of JQuery and Ajax polling to provide seamless, real-time messaging.

During inactive periods, the polling interval gradually becomes longer until it reaches a specific (configurable) maximum polling interval. Communication between the client and server is achieved with JSON packets sent via XML-RPC.

Features:

• Remembers open chat windows on page reload

• Chat windows can be minimized

• New messages automatically opens chat window

• An ‘online users’ portlet provides a list of currently online users

• Configurable polling intervals

• Clickable URLs recieved via chat messages

• Requests to the messaging service are password authenticated

• Can be integrated with the ActionBar of actionbar.panel

• Can run on a different server than the messaging service

Compatibility:

Tested to work with Plone 3.3.5 and Plone 4

Documentation:

Full documentation for the Babble project can be found at http://opkode.net/babbledocs/index.html

TODO:

• Currently Javascript tests can’t run anymore because of DTML, therefore, consider replacing dtml with collective.xrtresource.

• Add broadcasting (send to all) functionality

• Add tests for URL detection in messages

Changelog

1.3 (2010-05-06)

• Full release [jcbrand]

1.3b3 (2010-04-28)

• Fixed repeating page section rendering problem [jcbrand]

• Added URL recognition [jcbrand]

1.3b2 (2010-04-17)

• New polling solution via the doTimeout plugin instead of setTimeout [jcbrand]

• Fixed ajax calls when in portal_factory as context [jcbrand]

• Made the ‘Who’s online?’ portlet’s heading editable [jcbrand]

1.3b1 (2010-04-12)

• Updated the README [jcbrand]

1.2 (2010-04-09)

• Removed the option from portal_chat to bypass XML-RPC [jcbrand]

• Bugfixes in tests and fixed getConnection AttributeError for utils.py [jcbrand]

1.1 (2010-04-08)

• Tweaked jsregistry.xml to gain Plone3 compatibility [jcbrand]

1.0 (2010-04-08)

• Initial release [jcbrand]

Contributors

• JC Brand <[e-mail]>

• Cillian de Roíste <[e-mail]>