Marauroa Chat Tutorial/Text Client: Difference between revisions

 

In order to create a client using Marauroa frameword you should extend the marauroa.client.ClientFramework class with your logic. Here is the source code for the chat client

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A heart-beat loop is started afterwards. At each step we invoke loop(0), where floating point parameter means nothing at this point. Once in 100 steps we send a message to server. There is no interactive way to control messages, still it is amazing to see chat created by your own client.

Running a client is very simple, all you need is a bunch of jars (database is not required on the client side) and compiled client code. I use following line for compilation

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Don't forget to replace login and password with the actual ones. To create a new account just add a third command-line parameter (that should be an email, but no validation at the moment).

Ideally you should see something like

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Note the message about log4j.properties: you can create that file in order to configure the Log4J usage inside Marauroa framework.